Angie Stone, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer and songwriter who discovered success as a part of the Nineties neo-soul motion after practically twenty years within the music enterprise, died early Saturday in a site visitors accident in Alabama, in line with CNN. She was 63.
Her demise was confirmed by a consultant, Yvonne Forbes, who informed CNN that Stone had been touring in a van after performing in Cellular, Ala., when the van was concerned in a collision.
As a youngster rising up in Columbia, S.C., Stone fashioned the hip-hop trio the Sequence, which landed a recording contract with Sugar Hill Data; she later fashioned a bunch known as Vertical Maintain and wrote songs for and carried out with the likes of D’Angelo, Lenny Kravitz and Mary J. Blige. But Stone didn’t escape broadly till 1999 with the discharge of her debut solo album, “Black Diamond,” which earned rave evaluations on its solution to being licensed gold and spun off the hit single “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” which topped Billboard’s Grownup R&B Airplay chart for 10 weeks. In 2002 she scored one other huge hit with “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” which has greater than 136 million streams on Spotify.
Each songs embodied the hand-played beliefs and reversion spirit — “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” prominently sampled the O’Jays’ early-’70s “Back Stabbers” — that made stars of fellow neo-soul artists similar to Erykah Badu, Maxwell and D’Angelo after years by which R&B had moved steadily nearer to the flash and perspective of hip-hop.
In a 2000 interview with The Instances, Stone stated Lauryn Hill “broke the mold” together with her Grammy-winning 1998 LP, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” “Our society is so image-conscious, and she said that it’s OK to be natural and beautiful and sing about something with substance,” Stone stated.
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