Angela Laverne Brown, known professionally as Angie Stone, died in a car accident while traveling home from Alabama. She was 63.
Angie’s rep tells TMZ she left a performance in Montgomery early Saturday morning when she was killed in a car crash.
A source close to Stone’s team confirmed to AllHipHop that the singer and nine other band members were involved in a traffic accident.
Angie Stone rose to fame in the late 1970s as a 16-year-old founding member of the hip hop trio The Sequence.
The Sequence signed to Sugar Hill Records in the late 1970s and released a single titled “Funk You Up” (1979).
After leaving The Sequence, she joined the R&B trio Vertical Hold.
Stone eventually went solo and signed with Arista Records, where she released her debut solo album Black Diamond in 1999. Black Diamond was certification gold by the RIAA and spawned the single “No More Rain (In This Cloud)”.
The album was named after Stone’s then-teenage daughter, Diamond. In March 2015, Stone was arrested for assaulting her 30-year-old daughter.
Stone later signed with J Records and released her second solo album, Mahogany Soul (2001), which spawned the hit single “Wish I Didn’t Miss You”.
Stone was best known for her #1 R&B album with The Art of Love & War, released in 2007. The album’s lead single “Baby” featured Betty Wright and reached the top of the Adult R&B Songs chart.
Stone has collaborated with a variety of artists, including D’Angelo, with whom she shared a son, Michael (pictured).
Michael’s birth came as a shock to D’Angelo’s female fans because she was more than a decade older than the “Brown Sugar” singer.
Michael is an aspiring artist who goes by the stage name SwayvoTwain.
Stone transitioned to acting and appeared in supporting roles in films and television series as well as several musical productions, including VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club and TV One’s R&B Divas, and movies such as The Fighting Temptations (2003), Pastor Brown (2009) and School Gyrls (2010).
The Columbus, Georgia native 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.
Stone leaves behind 2 children, Diamond, 40, and son Michael D’Angelo Archer II, 26, as well as 2 grandchildren. She lived with her children and grandchildren in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
