Angie Stone, Grammy-nominated soul singer, dies in automobile crash at 63

Angie Stone, the R&B and neo-soul singer behind songs just like the hit "Want I Didn't Miss You," has died.

The musician was killed in a visitors accident in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, Leisure Weekly has confirmed. She was 63.

Stone was returning to Atlanta from a gig in Alabama together with her band when her cargo van flipped over and was subsequently hit by an enormous rig, stated music producer Walter Millsap III. She was scheduled to carry out at a basketball event for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation in Baltimore in a while Saturday.

Everybody else within the car survived.

Born Angela Brown in Columbia, S.C., in 1961, Stone started her singing profession with gospel performances at First Nazareth Baptist Church.

At age 16, she joined forces with highschool associates Cheryl "the Pearl" Cook dinner and Gwendolyn "Blondie" Chisolm to kind the hip-hop trio the Sequence. The group signed with Sugar Hill Information, releasing their hit single "Funk You Up" in 1979 (the tune was later sampled on "Preserve Their Heads Ringin'" by Dr. Dre) and three albums within the early Eighties.

Stone later joined one other trio, Vertical Maintain, releasing the albums A Matter of Time and Head First within the mid-Nineties. She additionally recorded one album with the group Devox, and sang backing vocals on 5, the 1998 album from Lenny Kravitz, the cousin of Devox member Gerry DeVeaux.

Stone launched her debut solo album, Black Diamond, in 1999. The LP reached the Prime 10 of Billboard's Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and was licensed gold. Its greatest single, "No Extra Rain (In This Cloud)," hit No. 1 on the Grownup R&B Songs chart.

The singer additionally co-wrote the observe "Jonz in My Bonz" with D'Angelo for his 1995 debut album, Brown Sugar, and later toured with him as a backing vocalist and co-wrote 4 songs for his seminal 2000 album, Voodoo. Stone was in a relationship with D'Angelo within the '90s, and the couple had a son, Michael, collectively in 1998.

Stone's second solo album, Mahogany Soul, was launched in 2001 and featured collaborations with Alicia Keys, Eve, Swizz Beatz, Carvin & Ivan, and Raphael Saadiq. It contained the hit single "Want I Didn't Miss You," which might turn into her most well-known tune, and reached No. 4 on Billboard's Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The observe "Extra Than a Girl," which was a duet with Joe, scored Stone a Grammy nomination for Greatest R&B Efficiency by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

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Stone's third solo album, Stone Love, got here out in 2005, and featured contributions from Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Anthony Hamilton, and extra. The tune "U-Haul," which was co-written by Elliott, earned Stone a Grammy nod for Greatest Feminine R&B Vocal Efficiency.

Her fourth album, The Artwork of Love & Conflict, reached larger than any of her earlier efforts on the American Billboard charts, topping the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and hitting No. 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Its lead single, a duet with Betty Wright known as "Child," snatched Stone her third Grammy nom, for Greatest R&B Efficiency by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

Stone went on to launch six extra solo albums, together with 2009's Surprising, which confronted the loss of life of her father, and 2015's Dream, which reteamed her with Stone Love producer Walter Millsap III. Her most up-to-date album, Love Language, was launched in 2023.

Stone additionally appeared in a number of motion pictures and TV exhibits, starting with the 2002 Rob Schneider comedy The Scorching Chick. She wrote the theme tune for the sitcom Girlfriends and guest-starred on an episode within the present's third season, and likewise appeared on actuality exhibits like Celeb Match Membership and Celeb Spouse Swap. Stone additionally acted on stage now and again, enjoying Huge Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway in 2003.

The singer is survived by her two kids, Diamond and Michael.

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