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 music “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a automotive crash. She was 63.
About 4 a.m., the car she was driving in again to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig,” music producer Walter Millsap III informed 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 sport on Saturday. CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber known as for a second of silence on the sport.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker mentioned they have been heartbroken by the loss. “She used her incredible talent, passion, and presence to inspire and touch us with strength and hope,” Parker mentioned.
The singer-songwriter created hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Grownup R&B airplay chart, “Baby” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, one other No. 1 hit, and “Wish 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 Art Of Love & War” 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 document a rap music.
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 Hot Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Fighting Temptations” which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Ride Along” 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 truth TV exhibits “Celebrity Fit Club” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
Related Press reporter Gary Gerard Hamilton contributed to this report from New York.
