Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip hop trio The Sequence and recognized for the hit music “Want I Did not Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a automotive crash. She was 63.
About 4 a.m., the automobile she was using in again to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by an enormous rig,” music producer Walter Millsap III informed The Related Press in an e-mail.
Everybody else within the cargo van survived besides Stone, he stated. CBS Information additionally confirmed Stone’s dying together with her publicist, Deborah R. Champagne.
Millsap stated he discovered the information from Angie Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and longtime The Sequence member Blondy.
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Stone was scheduled to carry out on the halftime present of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation males’s Championship basketball recreation on Saturday. CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber referred to as for a second of silence on the recreation.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker stated they have been heartbroken by the loss. “She used her unbelievable expertise, ardour, and presence to encourage and contact us with energy and hope,” Parker stated.
The singer-songwriter created hits like “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Grownup R&B airplay chart, “Child” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, one other No. 1 hit, and “Want I Did not Miss You” and “Brotha.”
Stone discovered a candy spot within the early 2000s as neo-soul start to dominate the R&B panorama with the emergence of singers like Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
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Her 2001 album “Mahagony Soul” reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, whereas 2007’s “The Artwork Of Love & Struggle” peaked at No. 11.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She helped type The Sequence, the primary all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Data, changing into one of many first feminine teams to report a rap music.
After discovering success within the early Nineteen Eighties, Stone later joined the trio Vertical Maintain earlier than launching her solo profession.
A Soul Practice Girl of Soul winner, Stone went on to showcase her performing chops with movie roles in “The Scorching Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Combating Temptations” which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Experience Alongside” led by Ice Dice and Kevin Hart.
She additionally hit the Broadway stage as Massive Mama Morton in “Chicago,” and he or she showcased her vulnerability on the truth TV reveals “Superstar Match Membership” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”