Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash
nypost.com“No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Adult R&B airplay chart, “Baby” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, another No.
1 hit, and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.”Stone found a sweet spot in the early 2000s as neo-soul begin to dominate the R&B landscape 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, while 2007’s “The Art Of Love & War” peaked at No. 11.The church-grown singer was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
She helped form The Sequence, the first all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Records, becoming one of the first female groups to record a rap song.The group recorded “Funk You Up,” which has been sampled by numerous artists, including Dr.
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