Austell, Georgia – A commemorative service was planned for Friday near Atlanta for Grammy R-NominatedANDB singer Angie Stone, which was murdered in a car accident to the south of Montgomery, Alabama.
The cargo truck in which he was traveling overturned and then was hit by a truck on March 1, said the musical producer and manager of Stone Walter Millsap III. Everyone else in the truck survived except Stone, who was 63 years old. Online taxes of fans and fellow artists Pour after his death.
Friday’s service is scheduled for 11 in the morning in the Word of Faith cathedral in Austell, Georgia, just west of Atlanta.
On Saturday, a service is planned in the first Baptist Church of Nazareth in Columbia, South Carolina.
The singer cultivated in the church was born in Columbia, where music was always in her life since she was a girl, Stone told the AP in the 1999 interview. Her mother sang around the house, and her father sang gospel and blues in establishments around Columbia.
Stone was a member of the Hip-Hop trio of Women The Sequence and known for the successful song “Wish i no Miss You”. He helped form the sequence, the first group of women in 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. Dre.
After finding success in the early 1980s, Stone later joined the vertical trio Hold before throwing his solo career.
Stone created successes such as “No more rain (in this cloud)”, which reached number 1 for 10 weeks in Billboard’s adultANDB Airplay Graph; “Baby” with the legendary Soul singer Betty Wright, another number 1 success; And “I hope I don’t miss you” and “Brotha”.
He found a sweet point in the early 2000s when Neo-Soul begins to dominate the RANDB landscape with the appearance of singers such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.
His 2001 album “Mahagony Soul” reached number 22 in Billboard 200, while “The Art of Love of 2007 AND The war ”reached its maximum point at number 11.
A winner of Soul Train Lady of Soul, Stone showed her acting skills with film roles in “The Hot Chick” starring Rob Schneider, “The Fighting Temptations”, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé, and “Ride Aando” directed by Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
He also arrived at Broadway stage as Big Mama Morton in “Chicago”, and showed his vulnerability in the reality shows “Celebrity Fit Club” and “RANDB DOS: Atlanta “.
