Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone was killed in a rollover automobile crash within the early morning of Saturday, March 1, on the age of 63. The “Want I Didn’t Miss You” singer, who was additionally a member of the long-lasting hip hop trio The Sequence and sang the theme music for the hit sitcom Girlfriends, was the one fatality within the accident that concerned her crew and backup singers.
Stone had carried out at a Mardi Gras occasion in Alabama on Friday, February 28. The singer and her crew had left the efficiency in Montgomery early Saturday morning when their automobile “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a giant rig,” Stone’s longtime supervisor, Walter Millsap III, instructed The Related Press.
Based on Alabama Freeway Patrol, Stone and her workforce’s 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van turned over on Interstate 65 round 4:25 a.m. and was subsequently hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck. The truck was pushed by a 33-year-old Texan man. The collision befell about 5 miles exterior of Montgomery metropolis limits. Stone was pronounced useless on the scene, whereas the van’s driver and the seven different passengers have been taken to Baptist Medical Middle for remedy.
Millsap instructed AP that he discovered the information from Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and Blondy (Gwendolyn Chisolm) from The Sequence.
“By no means in one million years did we ever count on to get this horrible information,” Stone’s youngsters, Diamond Stone and Michael Archer, stated in an announcement shared by the SRG Group, per AP. “We’re nonetheless attempting to course of and are fully heartbroken.”
“We’re actually devastated by this surprising and unlucky tragedy,” Millsap added, “and there are merely no phrases to precise how we really feel.”
Stone was scheduled to carry out on the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation males’s Championship basketball recreation on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. A second of silence was held for her through the occasion.
The Sequence was the primary all-woman group signed to Sugar Hill Information. Members Stone, Chisholm, and Cheryl Cook dinner glided by the names Angie B., Blondy, and Cheryl The Pearl. Stone was the group’s lead singer and rapper, and the trio have been highschool buddies. Their three albums got here out from 1979 to 1985, they usually made hits like “Funk You Up,” which was later sampled in Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” and Dr. Dre’s “Maintain Their Heads Ringin’.”
Stone’s solo music profession started within the Nineteen Nineties, along with her debut album, 1999’s Black Diamond, going gold within the US. “Want I Didn’t Miss You” got here out in 2001 and have become considered one of her greatest solo hits. One other success for Stone was “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud).” Stone and The Sequence are considered pioneers of hip hop music, and she or he was a serious participant within the neo-soul motion within the late Nineteen Nineties alongside Erykah Badu, Macy Grey, and Lauryn Hill. The musician dabbled in appearing a bit as effectively. Onscreen, Stone appeared in titles like The Scorching Chick and Journey Alongside.
Stone was married to musician Rodney Stone, who carried out as Lil’ Rodney C with the rap group Funky 4 Plus One, within the early Eighties and welcomed daughter Diamond in 1984. They divorced just a few years later, and within the Nineteen Nineties Stone was in a relationship with neo-soul artist D’Angelo. Their son, Michael D’Angelo Archer II, was born in 1998.
Stone is survived by her youngsters and two grandchildren.
