MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and identified for the hit track “Want I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a automobile 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 advised The Related Press in an electronic mail.
Everybody else within the cargo van survived besides Stone, he mentioned.
Millsap mentioned he realized the information from Angie Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and longtime The Sequence member Blondy.
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 known as for a second of silence on the recreation.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker mentioned they had been heartbroken by the loss. “She used her unimaginable expertise, ardour, and presence to encourage and contact us with energy and hope,” Parker mentioned.
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 Didn’t 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.
Her 2001 album “Mahagony Soul” reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, whereas 2007’s “The Artwork Of Love & Conflict” peaked at No. 11.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She helped kind 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 track.
The group recorded “Funk You Up,” which has been sampled by quite a few artists, together with Dr. Dre.
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 appearing chops with movie roles in “The Sizzling Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Combating Temptations” which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Journey Alongside” led by Ice Dice and Kevin Hart.
She additionally hit the Broadway stage as Large Mama Morton in “Chicago,” and he or she showcased her vulnerability on the fact TV reveals “Movie star Match Membership” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
