Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone was killed in a car crash on Saturday. She was 63. She was a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and is known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You”.
At about 4 am, the vehicle she was riding in “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig,” music producer and Stone’s longtime manager Walter Millsap III told The Associated Press. She was travelling back to Atlanta from Alabama.
Everyone else in the cargo van survived except Angie Stone, he said.
In a news release, the Alabama Highway Patrol said that the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van turned over on Interstate 65 at about 4.25 am on Saturday before being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck driven by a 33-year-old man from Texas.
Angie Stone was pronounced dead at the scene, the highway patrol said.
The Sprinter driver and seven others in the van were taken to Baptist Medical Center for treatment. Officials continue to investigate the cause.
Millsap said he learned the news 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 children, Diamond and Michael Archer, said in a statement 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 perform at the halftime show of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association men’s Championship basketball game on Saturday. CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber called for a moment of silence at the game.
The singer-songwriter created hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Adult R&B airplay chart, “Baby” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, another No. 1 hit, and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.”
Angie Stone found a sweet spot in the early 2000s as neo-soul begin to dominate the R&B landscape 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, while 2007’s “The Art Of Love & War” peaked at No. 11.
