Angie Stone was a wise singer who deeply understood the power of love and lust
The neo-soul artist, who has died aged 63, had years of experience by the time she became a star – and brought it to bear on a carnal, careworn catalogue
• News: soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63
Angie Stone was no overnight success. By the time 2001’s Mahogany Soul made her a star, she’d logged two decades in the game, starting out in pioneering all-girl rap trio the Sequence, before passing through went-nowhere R&B groups like Devox and Vertical Hold and writing and singing with other artists (including D’Angelo, her former lover and father of their son, Michael). Once Clive Davis’s Arista Records signed her in 1999, those years of experience set her apart from the neo-soul pack, having worn a powerful grain into her rich, agile voice, and steeping her music in soul’s deep history.
Her debut for Arista, Black Diamond, retooled lush 70s soul for the new century: Green Grass Vapors – a love song to the sweet leaf with Stone “higher than the Thunder Dome” – was from the same funky swamp as D’Angelo’s Chicken Grease, its smouldering guitar like a moaning panther. A remarkable reading of Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man, meanwhile, mastered the track’s breathless, staccato chorus without breaking a sweat, channelling Gaye’s existential agonies with every holler to an oblivious lord.
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Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63
The star, who had been in the Sequence before solo hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died from her injuries in Alabama. Singer Angie Stone, known for her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died at the ...The Guardian - 1d -
Grammy-nominated singer Angie Stone dies at 63 following auto accident
Grammy-nominated artist Angie Stone, the lead singer of former hip-hop trio The Sequence and an R&B icon known for several hits including “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” died Saturday following a car ...NBC News - 1d -
Angie Stone, Grammy-nominated R&B singer, dies in vehicle collision
The singer found success as part of the 1990s neo-soul movement that also included D'Angelo and Erykah Badu.Los Angeles Times - 1d -
R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash at 63
Singer Angie Stone is dead at 63 following a fatal car accident.ABC News - 1d -
Angie Stone, soul singer behind hit "Wish I Didn't Miss You," dies in crash
Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip hop trio The Sequence, was killed early Saturday in a car crash. She was 63.CBS News - 1d -
Angie Stone, Hip-Hop Pioneer Turned Neo-Soul Singer, Dies at 63
After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B.The New York Times - 1d -
R&B hitmaker Angie Stone dead in car crash
The Wish I Didn't Miss You singer was involved in a collision in Alabama following a performance.BBC News - 1d -
Artist behind "Wish I Didn't Miss You," Angie Stone, dies in car crash
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Angie Stone was killed in a car crash Saturday in Alabama. She's maybe best known for the hit "Wish I Didn't Miss You," and was a member of the all-female hip-hop ...CBS News - 1d -
Roberta Flack, timeless R&B singer who made 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' a hit, dies at 88
Roberta Flack, the R&B singer behind the landmark hits 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Killing Me Softly With His Song,' has died. She was 88.Los Angeles Times - 6d
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