A memorial service was deliberate for Friday close to Atlanta for Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, who was killed in a automobile crash south of Montgomery, Alabama.
The cargo van she was using in flipped over and was then hit by a truck on March 1, music producer and Stone’s longtime supervisor Walter Millsap III has stated. Everybody else within the van survived besides Stone, who was 63. On-line tributes from followers and fellow artists poured in after her dying.
Friday’s service is ready for 11 a.m. at Phrase of Religion Cathedral in Austell, Georgia, simply west of Atlanta.
On Saturday, a service is deliberate at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, the place music was at all times in her life since she was a toddler, Stone instructed the AP in 1999 interview. Her mom would sing round the home, and her father sang gospel and blues at institutions round Columbia.
Stone was a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and recognized for the hit music “Want I Didn’t Miss You.” She helped kind The Sequence, the primary all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Data, changing into one of many first feminine teams to report a rap music.
The group recorded “Funk You Up,” which has been sampled by quite a few artists, together with Dr. Dre.
After discovering success within the early Eighties, Stone later joined the trio Vertical Maintain earlier than launching her solo profession.
Stone created hits like “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud),” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Grownup R&B airplay chart; “Child” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, one other No. 1 hit; and “Want I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.”
She discovered a candy spot within the early 2000s as neo-soul start to dominate the R&B panorama with the emergence of singers like Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
Her 2001 album “Mahagony Soul” reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, whereas 2007’s “The Artwork Of Love & Conflict” peaked at No. 11.
A Soul Prepare Girl of Soul winner, Stone went on to showcase her performing chops with movie roles in “The Sizzling Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Preventing Temptations,” which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Journey Alongside” led by Ice Dice and Kevin Hart.
She additionally hit the Broadway stage as Large Mama Morton in “Chicago,” and she or he showcased her vulnerability on the fact TV reveals “Superstar Match Membership” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
