Memorial service planned for Grammy nominee -nominated singer R&B Angie Stone

A funeral service was planned on Friday near Atlanta for a Grammy nominee -nominated singer R&B Angie Stone, who was killed in a automobile accident south of Montgomery in Alabama.

The van, which she rode over, after which was hit by a truck on March 1, said the music producer and longtime manager of Stone Walter Millsap III. Everyone else within the van survived except Stone, who was 63 years old. He poured the hob of online fans and other artists after her death.

Friday’s service takes place at 11 am on the Word of Faith cathedral in Austll, Georgia, west of Atlanta.

On Saturday, a service was planned at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Colombia, Southern Carolina.

The singer was born in Colombia, where music was all the time in her life, since she was a toddler, Stone said AP in an interview with AP in 1999. Her mother sang at home, and her father sang the Gospel and blues within the plants around Colombia.

Stone was a member of the feminine trio of the hip-hop sequence and known from the hit song “Wish and Don Miss You”. She helped create a sequence, the primary versatile group within the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Records, becoming one in every of the primary groups of ladies who recorded a rap song.

The group recorded “Funk You Up”, which tried many artists, including Dr. Dre.

After success within the early Nineteen Eighties, Stone later joined the Vertical Hold Trio before the beginning of her solo profession.

Stone created hits similar to “No More Rain (in this cloud)”, which reached first place for 10 weeks on the list of adult broadcasts Billboard; “Baby” with the legendary singer Soul Betty Wright, one other hit No. 1; And “I would like not to miss” and “Brother”.

At the start of 2000, she found a sweet place when Neo-Soul begins to dominate the R&B landscape with the looks of singers similar to Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Maxwell and D’Angelo.

Her album “Mahagons Soul” from 2001 achieved 22 place at Billboard 200, and “Art of Love & War” from 2007 reached summit No. 11.

The winner of the soul of Train Lady of Soul, Stone, presented her acting cutlets with film roles in “The Hot Chick” with the participation of Rob Schneider, “The Fighting Temptations”, during which Cuba Gooding Jr. I Beyoncé, and “Ride Contam” LED by Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.

She also hit the stage on Broadway as a giant mam Morton in “Chicago”, and presented her susceptibility to the truth show “Celebrity Fit Club” and “R&B Divas: Atlanta”.