Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and identified for the hit music “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a automobile crash. She was 63.
About 4 a.m., the automobile she was driving in again to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig,” music producer and Stone’s longtime supervisor Walter Millsap III advised The Related Press in an electronic mail.
Everybody else within the cargo van survived besides Stone, he stated.
The Alabama Freeway Patrol stated in a information launch that the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van turned over on Interstate 65 about 4:25 a.m. Saturday earlier than being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck pushed by a 33-year-old man from Texas.
Angie Stone was pronounced lifeless on the scene, the freeway patrol stated. The crash was about 5 miles south of the Montgomery metropolis limits.
The Sprinter driver and 7 others within the van had been taken to Baptist Medical Middle for therapy. Officers proceed to analyze the trigger.
Millsap stated he discovered the information from Angie Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and longtime The Sequence member Blondy.
“Never in a million years did we ever expect to get this horrible news,” Angie Stone’s kids, Diamond and Michael Archer, stated in a press release shared by the SRG Group. “We are still trying to process and are completely heartbroken.”
Millsap added: “We are truly devastated by this unexpected and unfortunate tragedy and there are simply no words to express how we feel.”
Stone was scheduled to carry out on the halftime present of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation males’s Championship basketball sport on Saturday.
CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber referred to as for a second of silence on the sport.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker stated they had been heartbroken by the loss. “She used her incredible talent, passion, and presence to inspire and touch us with strength and hope,” Parker stated.
The singer-songwriter created hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Grownup R&B airplay chart, “Baby” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, one other No. 1 hit, and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.”
Stone discovered a candy spot within the early 2000s as neo-soul start to dominate the R&B panorama with the emergence of singers like Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
Her 2001 album “Mahagony Soul” reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, whereas 2007’s “The Art Of Love & War” peaked at No. 11.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She helped kind The Sequence, the primary all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Information, turning into one of many first feminine teams to document a rap music.
The group recorded “Funk You Up,” which has been sampled by quite a few artists, together with Dr. Dre.
After discovering success within the early Eighties, Stone later joined the trio Vertical Maintain earlier than launching her solo profession.
