MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) – Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the All-Femer hip-hop trio known for her hit song “Wish Eye Moomis You,” was killed in a car accident early on Saturday. She was 63 years old.
At around 4am, the vehicle she was back from Alabama to Atlanta “it was turned over and then hit by a big rig,” said Walter Millsap III, music producer and longtime manager of Stone. Associated Press By email.
Everyone else in the cargo van survived, except for the stone, he said.
The Alabama Highway Patrol was hit by a 2021 flyliner Cascadia truck driven by a 33-year-old Texas native after the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van said in a news release that it took over Interstate 65 around 4:25am Saturday.
Angie Stone was declared dead at the scene, Highway Patrol said. The collision was about five miles (8 km) south of Montgomery's urban boundary.
Sprinter driver and seven other members of the van were taken to Baptist Medical Center for treatment. Authorities continue to investigate the cause.
Millsapp said he learned the news from Angie Stone's daughter, Diamond, and longtime sequence member Blondy.
“I never expected to get this horrible news,” Angie Stone's children, Diamond and Michael Archer, said in a statement shared by the SRG Group. “We're still trying to handle it and are totally heartbroken.”
Millsap added:
Stone was scheduled to perform at the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association's men's championship basketball game halftime show on Saturday. Rev. Ciaa Chaplain Jerome Barber sought a moment of silence in the game.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker said they were heartbroken by the loss. “She used her incredible talent, passion and presence to bring strength and hope to us, touch and touch us,” Parker said.
Singer-songwriter created hits like “There's no rain anymore (to these clouds)” Billboard's adult R&B airplay chart, “Baby,” legendary soul singer Betty Light, another No. 1 hit, “I Didn't Miss You” and “Brotha” reached number one for 10 weeks.
Stone found sweet spots with Neo Soul beginning to dominate the R&B landscape in the early 2000s, with singers like Erikabadu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and Dangelo.
Her 2001 album, “Mahagony Soul,” reached number 22 on the Billboard 200, and 2007's “The Art of Love & War” reached number 11.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She helped shape the sequence, the first whole-women group on Hip Hop Trail Blazing's Imprint Sugar Hill Records, becoming one of the first women's groups to record a rap song.
The group recorded “Funk You Up.” This is Dr. It has been sampled by many artists, including Dre.
After a successful career in the early 1980s, Stone later joined the trio vertical hold before beginning his solo career.
Stone came from a musical family
She has been part of her life since childhood, with her mother singing around the house and her father singing the gospel and blue in spots around town, Stone told the Associated Press in a 1999 interview.
“I'm an only child, so my dad and mother are my life. When I was a child, I respect my dad,” she told the Associated Press. “He was very influential in what I wanted to do.”
A few years later, after being hospitalized for congestive heart failure, she changed her life, lost over 40 pounds and started eating better, she told the Associated Press. At the time, she said she was happy to be alive and able to make music.
“I feel perfect. I have a new love, a new album, a new outlook, a new joy. A few years ago I was unhappy, depressed and not satisfied with the label's efforts to market me. She told the Associated Press in 2007. I have been in business since 1979. …Now, I can say that I finally arrive and feel that means that.”
The soul winner of Soul Train, Stone performed his acting chops in “The Hot Chick,” starring Rob Schneider and “The Hot Chick,” starring “The Fighting Temptations.”
She also hit the Broadway stage as Big Mama Morton on “Chicago,” showing off her vulnerability on reality TV shows “Celebrity Fit Club” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
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Associated Press Reporter Gary Gerald Hamilton contributed to the report from New York.
