Angie Stone, the beloved R&B songstress who gave us timeless tunes like “Want I Didn’t Miss You” and “No Extra Rain in (In This Cloud),” has died. She was 63.
In keeping with the affirmation from rep Deborah R. Champagne that was obtraoined by TMZ, Stone was killed in a automobile crash after leaving a efficiency in Montgomery, Ala., early Saturday morning, March 1.
The police division investigation the crash have supplied few different particulars at press time.
Angela Laverne Brown was born in Columbia, S.C., the place church gospel was her introduction into music. The singer, songwriter, actress and document producer rose to fame within the late Nineteen Seventies as member of the hip-hop trio The Sequence. Within the early Nineteen Nineties, she turned a member of the R&B trio Vertical Maintain.
Stone went on to launch a succession of profitable solo albums Black Diamond and Mahogany Soul which spawned the smash hits, “No Extra Rain (In These Cllouds) and “Want I Didn’t Miss You.” She additionally dropped the critically-acclaimed albums Stone Love in 2004 and The Artwork of Love & Warfare in 2007 which rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Angie Stone transitioned into motion pictures and TV
Stone additionally made the seamless transition into motion pictures and tv with the 2002 comedy movie The Sizzling Chick and the function of Large Mama Morton within the Broadway musical Chicago in 2003. She additionally starred within the actuality TV sequence “Superstar Match Membership and “R&B Divas.”
Stone is survived by her son Michael, daughter Diamond and her two grandchildren.