Published on March 1,2025,3:10p.m. EST
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Columbia-born singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Angie Stone has died at the age of 63.
Stone’s manager Deborah Champagne confirm to WSFA 12 News she and other crew members were leaving a performance in Montgomery County when their vehicle got involved in fatal car crash early Saturday morning.

According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the impact happened just before 7 a.m. and blocked the left northbound lane and the left southbound lanes of Interstate 65
Authorities say the crash also involved a commercial vehicle.
According to officials, Stone was scheduled to perform at the CIAA Basketball Tournament in Baltimore Saturday afternoon.
Angie Stone, whose full name is Angela Laverne Brown, was born in Columbia on December 18, 1961. Stone began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church, before forming the rap trio The Sequence at 16 years old.
They were the second rap group signed to the iconic Sugar Hill Records after auditioning for “Mother of Hip-Hop” Sylvia Robinson at a Sugar Hill Gang concert in South Carolina.
In the early 1990s, Stone became a member of the R&B trio Vertical Hold, then signed with Arista Records to release her debut solo album Black Diamond in 1999.
The album received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Stone was a force in the music industry behind the scenes as well. She shared songwriting credits on R&B singer D’Angelo‘s first two studio albums, Brown Sugar(1995) and Voodoo (2000), and was a backup vocalist on tour with him. The two also share a son together.
Stone was nominated for three Grammy Awards, and won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards.
In 2021, she received the Soul Music Icon Award at the Black Music Honors. In 2024, she was a featured vocalist on Damon Little’s “No Stressing”, which peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart.
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