Grammy-nominated R&B singer and member of The Sequence, Angie Stone, who was known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You”, died in a car accident early Saturday. She was 63 years old.
,”The Sprinter turned over and was then smashed by a B-double,” music producer Walter Millsap III said to the Associated Press in an email. “Fortunately, everyone survived except for Angie.”
The singer-songwriter came up with hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which topped the Billboard Adult R&B airplay chart for 10 weeks, “Baby” with soul legend Betty Wright, another number one hit, and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.”
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Two hundred, while “The Art Of Love & War” from 2007 reached number eleven.
The church-trained singer was born in South Carolina. She helped form The Sequence, the first all-female group on the hip-hop pioneering label Sugar Hill Records, becoming one of the pioneering female groups to record a rap song.
After achieving success in the early 1980s, Stone went on to join the group Vertical Hold before kicking off her own solo career.
A Soul Train Lady of Soul winner, Stone, then went on to show off her acting skills in films including “The Hot Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Fighting Temptations” with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Ride Along” starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
She also appeared on the Broadway stage as Big Mama Morton in “Chicago,” and she demonstrated her vulnerability on the reality TV shows “Celebrity Fit Club” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
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AP journalist Gary Gerard Hamilton contributed to this story from New York.
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