Angie Stone, pictured in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2025
The Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and best known as a solo artist for her hit song Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died in a car crash. She was 63.
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At about 4am local time on Saturday, the vehicle she was travelling in back to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig”, music producer Walter Millsap III told The Associated Press.
Everyone else in the cargo van survived except Stone, he said.
Millsap said he learned the news from Stone’s daughter, Diamond and the longtime Sequence member Blondy.
Stone was scheduled to perform at the half-time show of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) men’s championship basketball game on Saturday.
CIAA chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber called for a moment of silence at the game.
CIAA commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker said they were heartbroken by the loss.
“She used her incredible talent, passion, and presence to inspire and touch us with strength and hope,” Parker said.
With her 1999 debut album Black Diamond, Angie Stone found fame as a solo artist when neo-soul was dominating the R&B landscape
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; Wish I Didn’t Miss You, and Brotha.
With her 1999 debut album Black Diamond, Stone soared as a solo artist when neo-soul was dominating the R&B landscape with the emergence of singers such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell, and D’Angelo.
A church singer in her early years, Stone 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.
The group recorded Funk You Up, which has been sampled by numerous artists, including Dr Dre.
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 talents with film roles in The Hot Chick starring Rob Schneider, The Fighting Temptations which starred Beyoncé and Cuba Gooding Jr, and Ride Along with 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.
Source: Associated Press/Press Association
