R&B star Angie Stone dies in automobile crash on the age of 63

Angie Stone, the R&B singer behind hits akin to ‘Want I Didn’t Miss You’ and ‘Brotha’, has died in a automobile accident on the age of 63. 

A consultant of the singer confirmed to Variety that the crash occurred in Montgomery, Alabama on Saturday morning (March 1) as Stone was coming from a present. She was the one particular person to die within the accident. 

“Angie Stone’s voice and spirit will dwell on without end within the hearts of these she touched,” her spokesperson informed CNN. 

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Stone was nominated for 3 Grammys throughout a protracted and profitable profession that noticed her collaborate with artists akin to D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg and Alicia Keys. 

Born in Columbia, South Carolina on December 18, 1961, Stone began her music profession within the hip-hop trio The Sequence, the primary feminine rap group signed to Sugar Hill Data. They'd hits with ‘Monster Jam’ and ‘Funk You Up’, the latter of which went on to be sampled in Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’. 

After The Sequence break up up, she went on to hitch the group Vertical Maintain and have become a songwriter and backing vocalist for different artists, memorably contributing to D’Angelo’s neo-soul classics ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘Voodoo’. 

Her solo profession began in earnest within the late ‘90s, together with her debut album ‘Black Diamond’ popping out in 1999. Songs like ‘Want I Didn’t Miss You, ‘Brotha’ and ‘No Extra Rain (In This Cloud)’ had been Billboard Scorching 100 hits within the US, as was ‘U Make My Solar Shine’, a 2001 duet with Prince. 

Her subsequent albums ‘Stone Love’ (2004) and ‘The Artwork Of Love & Warfare’ (2007) noticed her proceed her success, together with her most up-to-date document being 2023’s ‘Love Language’. 

She additionally had an appearing profession, showing in movies akin to The Scorching Chick and The Preventing Temptations, and was additionally featured in Celeb Match Membership and R&B Divas: Atlanta. 

Stone is survived by her daughter Diamond and her son Michael.