Angela Stribling died on September 27, 2026, and Ed Gordon announced her passing in a social media post. The loss cuts across BET, Washington, D.C. radio, and the Sirius audience that knew her as both a broadcaster and a jazz vocalist.
Gordon wrote: "It's been a very difficult year for the BET family, we’ve lost a number of people and it’s gotten even more devastating. So very sad to hear Angela Stribling has passed away. We worked together and became friends during our years at the network and remained friends once we both moved on to other opportunities."
BET and DC
Stribling spent years on the air at BET, where she hosted a number of shows, hosted Screen Scene, and helped launch BET Jazz. She also hosted BET Jazz Discovery and BET Jazz Scene, work that made her a recurring presence rather than a one-off guest in the network's music programming.
Her reach did not stop at television. She became a fixture in Washington, D.C. radio through WHUR, hosted Pillow Talk with Angela, and was part of the Quiet Storm tradition. For listeners who followed her across formats, that mix of television, radio, and jazz presentation defined the range of her career.
WHUR and Sirius
Stribling's profile extended beyond the local market through Sirius, and her singing career gave that broadcast work a second lane. She was a classically trained vocalist with a lifelong love of jazz, issued several recordings of her own performances, and performed internationally.
She also shared stages with Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, and hosted Jazz Central alongside Ramsey Lewis and Lou Rawls. Those credits place her in a small but durable class of on-air talent who could move between announcing, hosting, and performing without losing credibility in any of them.
Angela Stribling and BET Jazz
The immediate business consequence is simple: BET and DC have lost a voice that linked television music programming to radio programming for decades. Her death leaves the public with a clear timeline but no announced memorial, service, or further statement, so the only new development to watch for is whether her family or former colleagues decide to speak next.
Ed Gordon's tribute also adds a sharper note than a routine obituary. He described a year that had already been hard for the BET family before Stribling's death, which gives her passing more weight inside the network's own history of loss and makes her absence feel cumulative, not isolated.
For readers who knew her work on BET, WHUR, and Sirius, the practical next step is to wait for the first formal remembrance rather than treat social media as the last word. The larger story now is not a program lineup; it is the closing of a long run by a voice that moved between jazz, television, and radio with uncommon ease.
