Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and recognized for the hit music “Want I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a automotive crash. She was 63.
About 4 a.m., the automobile she was using in again to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a giant rig,” music producer and Stone’s longtime supervisor Walter Millsap III informed The Related Press in an electronic mail.
Everybody else within the cargo van survived besides Stone, he mentioned.
The Alabama Freeway Patrol mentioned in a information launch that the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van turned over on Interstate 65 about 4:25 a.m. Saturday earlier than being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck pushed by a 33-year-old man from Texas.
Angie Stone was pronounced useless on the scene, the freeway patrol mentioned. The crash was about 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of the Montgomery metropolis limits.
The Sprinter driver and 7 others within the van have been taken to Baptist Medical Heart for therapy. Officers proceed to analyze the trigger.
Millsap mentioned he realized the information from Angie Stone’s daughter, Diamond, and longtime The Sequence member Blondy.
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“By no means in one million years did we ever count on to get this horrible information,” Angie Stone’s kids, Diamond and Michael Archer, mentioned in a press release shared by the SRG Group. “We’re nonetheless making an attempt to course of and are utterly heartbroken.”
Millsap added: “We’re actually devastated by this surprising and unlucky tragedy and there are merely no phrases to precise how we really feel.”
Angie Stone was scheduled to carry out on the halftime present of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation males’s Championship basketball recreation on Saturday. CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber known as for a second of silence on the recreation.
CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker mentioned they have been heartbroken by the loss. “She used her unbelievable expertise, ardour, and presence to encourage and contact us with power and hope,” Parker mentioned.
