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Veteran R&B Singer Angie Stone Dies At 63 In Alabama Car Accident


Angie Stone, a veteran soul and R&B singer, has died at 63 after a Sprinter van accident in Alabama.

The 3x Grammy nominee’s daughter Diamond Stone announced her mother’s death Saturday on social media following the accident that occurred as she was leaving a performance early that morning in Montgomery, Alabama. Born Dec. 18, 1961 in Columbia, South Carolina, Angela Laverne Brown got her start with hip hop trio The Sequence in the 1970s, before joining the R&B group Vertical Hold in the ’90s. On screen, Angie appeared in such films as The Hot Chick(2002), The Fighting Temptations(2003), School Gyrls(2010) and Ride Along(2014), as well as episodes of Moesha, Girlfriends and Lincoln Heights.

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