Singer and actress Angie Stone, 63, died in a traffic collision on March 1, shortly after leaving a performance in Montgomery, Alabama. Stone started her career in the late 1970s with the hip-hop group The Sequence, moving on to the R&B group Vertical Hold, finally breaking out as a single act. She recorded ten albums, and had such single hits as "No More Rain (In This Cloud)," “Life Story,” “Everyday,” “Brotha,” “More Than a Woman,” “Baby,” and “I Wanna Thank Ya.” She also branched out into acting, appearing in the films and TV shows The Hot Chick, Girlfriends, The Fighting Temptations, Paster Brown, School Gyrls, Dreams, Scary Movie V, and To Love the Soul of a Woman. “I’ve always been exposed to music,” Stone told interviewer Charles Waring. “My dad was part of a quartet group that would rehearse in my living room every day. I did a talent show when I was nine years old where I sang ‘Love On a Two-Way Street’ at a park recreation facility in South Carolina. I won first place so I knew then I was musically inclined. Oh, singing was absolutely the only thing I wanted to do. Rap was just a gateway into what my heart was conditioned on. I had a lot of fun with being a rapper but I always knew that one day I would prefer to be a singer than a rapper.” She is survived by a son and a daughter.
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