Angie Stone, a 63-year-old, three time Grammy-nominated R&B and soul singer/songwriter, died Saturday in Montgomery County after two collisions on I-65. According to a release from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the collisions also injured eight others who were in the van with Stone.
Diamond Stone and Michael Archer said the singer was a “pioneer of rap music,” beginning her musical career as part of the female rap trio The Sequence.
Stone, 63, was riding from Mobile, Ala., to Atlanta in a Sprinter van when it collided with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 near Montgomery.
A fake GoFundMe created in support of late singer Angie Stone has been removed and its organizer has been banned from any future fundraising.
The Alabama Highway Patrol said the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that Stone was traveling in overturned on Interstate 65 early Saturday before being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck. Stone was pronounced dead at the scene, the highway patrol said in a statement.
R&B star Angie Stone, who died in a car crash last week, will have two memorial services, her rep confirmed. On Saturday, Stone is having a private memorial service in her hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, her rep, Deborah Champagne, confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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.
South Carolina native, singer Angie Stone was involved in a crash around 4 a.m. local time Saturday while driving to Atlanta from Alabama.
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone was killed in a crash on Interstate 65 in Montgomery County early Saturday morning, her manager confirmed.