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Angie Stone, a psyche and R&B vocalist down hits similar "No More Rain (In This Cloud)" and "Wish I Didn't Miss You," died Saturday greeting successful a conveyance collision, her longtime publicist, Yvonne Forbes, told CNN.
Stone was 63.
After performing successful Mobile, Alabama connected Friday, Stone was with 9 radical traveling to Atlanta, Georgia successful a Sprinter van erstwhile the mishap occurred, according to Forbes. Details connected others injured successful the collision were not instantly available.
Angie Stone successful performance astatine Indigo astatine the O2, London, UK successful October 2019.
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"Angie Stone's dependable and tone volition unrecorded connected everlastingly successful the hearts of those she touched," a connection from her spokeswoman read. "Details regarding memorial services volition beryllium announced by the household successful owed course."
Born successful Columbia, South Carolina, Stone's four-decade vocation successful amusement began successful the precocious '70s arsenic a subordinate of The Sequence, a pioneering pistillate rap radical down the deed "Funk You Up." She aboriginal moved connected to neo-soul and R&B euphony arsenic a solo creator with albums including "Black Diamond" successful 1999 and "Mahogany Soul" successful 2001.
In a 2020 interrogation with "The Breakfast Club," Stone talked astir her aboriginal vocation aspirations and quality to win successful respective philharmonic genres earlier it became much communal for artists to physique crossover appeal.
"I was self-taught. I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was ambitious," Stone said. "It's having that bug that say, 'I'm a rubber band. You tin agelong maine but I won't pop. I'm going to ever bash me.'"
She was nominated for her archetypal Grammy for a way disconnected "Mahogany Soul" titled "More Than a Woman" successful the champion R&B show by a duo oregon radical with vocal category. In 2004, her way "U-Haul" - disconnected her 3rd solo medium "Stone Love" - was nominated for champion pistillate R&B vocal performance. Her last Grammy motion came successful 2007 for her opus "Baby," disconnected her 4th solo medium "The Art of Love & War."
Stone was besides an histrion with conscionable implicit 40 surface credits. She appeared successful notable titles including the TV shows "Girlfriends," for which she sang the taxable song, "Moesha" starring Brandy Norwood, and films similar "The Hot Chick," "Scary Movie V" and "Ride Along." She had 1 task successful post-production, a movie titled "Abused."
Just weeks ago, Stone reflected connected her vocation and the enactment she was inactive readying connected creating successful a station connected societal media.
"I've been successful the crippled for 50 years. My archetypal solo medium is 25 years old. I've enactment successful a batch of enactment implicit the years," Stone wrote connected Instagram. "God gave maine this acquisition and I person shared it with the world. Even astatine this constituent I americium asking my creator what is adjacent due to the fact that I person truthful overmuch much to give."
Angie Stone is survived by her son, Michael D'Angelo Archer II, whom she shared with chap vocalist D'Angelo. Michael, besides known by his signifier sanction Swayvo Twain, is besides a signaling artist.
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