Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died in a car crash.
“Unfortunately, at around 4am while heading back to Atlanta from Alabama, the Sprinter flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig,” music producer Walter Millsap III told The Associated Press in an email.
“Thankfully, all survived except for Angie.”
The 63-year-old singer-songwriter created hits such as No More Rain (In This Cloud) which reached number one for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Adult R&B airplay chart, Baby with soul singer Betty Wright, another number one hit, and Wish I Didn’t Miss You and Brotha.
She found a sweet spot in the early 2000s as neo-soul began to dominate the R&B landscape with the emergence of singers such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
Her 2001 album Mahogany Soul reached number 22 on the Billboard 200, while 2007’s The Art Of Love & War peaked at number 11.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
She helped form The Sequence, the first all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Records, becoming one of the first female groups to record a rap song.
After finding success in the early 1980s, Stone later joined the trio Vertical Hold before launching her solo career.
A Soul Train Lady of Soul winner, Stone went on to showcase her acting chops with film roles in The Hot Chick starring Rob Schneider, The Fighting Temptations which starred Cuba Gooding Jr and Beyonce, and Ride Along led by Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
She also hit the Broadway stage as Big Mama Morton in Chicago, and she showcased her vulnerability on the reality TV shows Celebrity Fit Club and R&B Divas: Atlanta.
