Angie Stone, soul singer behind hit “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” dies in car crash at 63
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio and is known for the hit song “Weeld Me “I Don’t Miss You”” and was killed earlier Saturday in a car accident. She is 63 years old.
Music producer Walter Millsap III told the Associated Press in an email that she was taking a car back to Atlanta from Alabama at about 4 a.m.
He said everyone else in the van survived. CBS News also confirmed the death of Stone with PR Deborah R. Champagne.
Millsap said he learned the news from Angie Stone’s daughter Diamond and long-time sequence member Blondy.
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Stone is scheduled to perform in the midfield at the Central University Men’s Championship basketball game on Saturday. CIAA pastor Jerome Barber called for silence during the game.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker said they were sad about the loss. “She uses her incredible talent, passion and presence to inspire and move our strength and hope,” Parker said.
The singer-songwriter has created hits like “No Mor Mor Mor More Mate (In the Cloud)” which ranked No. 1 on Billboard’s adult R&B Airplay charts, and in 10 weeks, “Baby” vs. legendary soul singer Betty Wright, another hit number one, “Whits I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha” and “Brotha” and “Brotha” and “Brotha”.
Stone found a best spot in the early 2000s, as Newsur began to occupy the R&B landscape with singers such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
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Her 2001 album Mahagony Soul reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, while 2007’s The Art of Love & War ranked 11th.
The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She helped form the sequence, the first all-female group on hip-hop pioneering brand Sugar Hill Records, becoming one of the first women to record rap songs.
After her success in the early 1980s, Stone later joined the Trio Vertical Holder before embarking on her personal career.
Stone is the Soul Train Lady of Soul Champion, who continues to feature film roles in the starring “Hot Chicken,” starring Rob Schneider, The Fighting Temptations, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and led by Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
She also made a Broadway stage with Big Mama Morton in “Chicago”, where she showed off her vulnerability on the reality TV show “Celebrity Fit Club” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta.”
