Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone was killed in a rollover automobile crash within the early morning of Saturday, March 1, on the age of 63. The “Want I Didn’t Miss You” singer, who was additionally a member of the long-lasting hip hop trio The Sequence and sang the theme tune for the hit sitcom Girlfriends, was the one fatality within the accident that concerned her crew and backup singers.
Stone had carried out at a Mardi Gras occasion in Alabama on Friday, February 28. The singer and her crew had left the efficiency in Montgomery early Saturday morning when their automobile “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a giant rig,” Stone’s longtime supervisor, Walter Millsap III, informed The Related Press.
Based on Alabama Freeway Patrol, Stone and her staff’s 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van turned over on Interstate 65 round 4:25 a.m. and was subsequently hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck. The truck was pushed by a 33-year-old Texan man. The collision came about about 5 miles outdoors of Montgomery metropolis limits. Stone was pronounced useless on the scene, whereas the van’s driver and the seven different passengers had been taken to Baptist Medical Middle for remedy. Millsap informed AP that he realized the information from Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and Blondy (Gwendolyn Chisolm) from The Sequence.
“By no means in 1,000,000 years did we ever anticipate to get this horrible information,” Stone’s youngsters, Diamond and Michael Archer, stated in a press release shared by the SRG Group, per AP. “We’re nonetheless making an attempt to course of and are fully heartbroken.”
“We’re really devastated by this surprising and unlucky tragedy,” Millsap added, “and there are merely no phrases to specific how we really feel.”
Stone was scheduled to carry out on the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation males’s Championship basketball recreation on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. A second of silence was held for her through the occasion.
The Sequence was the primary all-woman group signed to Sugar Hill Data. Members Stone, Chisholm, and Cheryl Cook dinner glided by the names Angie B., Blondy, and Cheryl The Pearl. Stone was the group’s lead singer and rapper, and the trio had been highschool mates. Their three albums got here out from 1979 and 1985, and so they made hits like “Funk You Up,” which was later sampled in Bruno Mars‘ “Uptown Funk” and Dr. Dre‘s “Preserve Their Heads Ringin’.”
Stone’s solo music profession started within the Nineteen Nineties, together with her debut album, 1999’s Black Diamond, going gold within the US. “Want I Didn’t Miss You” got here out in 2001 and have become certainly one of her largest solo hits. She appeared onscreen in titles like The Sizzling Chick and Journey Alongside.
Stone is survived by son Michael, daughter Diamond, and two grandchildren.