American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and member of the hip-hop trio The Sequence, Angie Stone, died at 63.
She died on Sunday, March 1, her representative shared via email. Stone died in a hospital after being involved in a car crash after a performance in Alabama.
She rose to fame in the late 1970s as a member of the hip hop trio the Sequence. In the early 1990s, she joined the R&B trio Vertical Hold. Stone then signed with Arista Records to release her debut solo album, Black Diamond (1999).
Stone was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. In 2021, she received the Soul Music Icon Award at the Black Music Honors.
Angie Stone, Hip-Hop Pioneer and R&B Singer, Dies at 63
