1. Angela Laverne Stone was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer.
32 Facts About Angie Stone
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Angie Stone rose to fame in the late 1970s as a member of the hip hop trio The Sequence.
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Angie Stone then signed with Arista Records to release her debut solo album Black Diamond, which received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the single "No More Rain ".
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Angie Stone ventured into acting in the 2000s, making her film debut in the 2002 comedy film The Hot Chick, and her stage debut in 2003, in the role of Big Mama Morton in the Broadway musical Chicago.
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Angie Stone was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Soul Train Music Awards and won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards as well as an Edison Award.
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Angie Stone had earned three Gold-certified studio albums, while her solo work has generated sales of over five million records worldwide.
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Angie Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the daughter of Iona, a hospital technician, and Bobby Williams, a lawyer's assistant.
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Angie Stone began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, under the leadership of Reverend Blakely N Scott.
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Angie Stone began writing solo material and booked studio time at her own expense.
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Ahead of the release of Vertical Hold's second album, 1995's Head First, Angie Stone lost more than 70 pounds.
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In 1996, Angie Stone became a featured vocalist for Gerry DeVeaux and Charlie Mole who had formed a group called DeVox.
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Angie Stone served as a backing vocalist on Lenny Kravitz's fifth studio album, 5.
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Angie Stone offered her a solo recording contract with the label and in September 1999, her debut solo album, Black Diamond, was released.
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In 2000, Angie Stone transitioned from Arista to music manager Clive Davis's venture J Records.
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Angie Stone then released her second album Mahogany Soul on October 16,2001, with the label.
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Again, Angie Stone was awarded gold by BPI and RIAA for Mahogany Soul.
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In 2002, Angie Stone had a guest role on Girlfriends and played store owner Madame Mambuza in the American teen comedy The Hot Chick, starring Rob Schneider.
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Angie Stone recorded "Rain Down", a duet with Eddie Levert, for the accompanying soundtrack.
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Davis consulted Warryn Campbell, Jazze Pha and Missy Elliott to work with Angie Stone, who penned and produced half of the final track listing herself.
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In 2005, Stone began recording what as expected to become her fifth regular album, but to save costs J Records asked her to transfer her new material, including the previously unreleased single "I Wasn't Kidding", to her first compilation album Stone Hits: The Very Best of Angie Stone, comprising songs from her first three albums.
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In 2006, Angie Stone appeared on the VH1's reality television series Celebrity Fit Club for the fourth season, which began on August 6,2006.
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In 2009, Angie Stone had a minor role as a strip-club owner in Rockmond Dunbar's comedy drama Pastor Brown.
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In 2010, Angie Stone then played the head matron of an all-girls school in the film, School Gyrls, directed by Nick Cannon, which featured many Def Jam artists.
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In May 2011, along with NeNe Leakes, Angie Stone co-starred in the play Loving Him is Killing Me that was performed in Washington, DC, Miami, and Philadelphia.
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In 2012, Angie Stone signed to Saguaro Road Records, an in-house music recording label of Time-Life, and released Rich Girl September 25,2012.
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Angie Stone changed labels again for her 2019 album Full Circle, which saw her reteaming with her collaborators from the Dream album and was issued through Conjunction Entertainment in partnership Cleopatra Records.
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In 2021, Angie Stone's received the Soul Music Icon Award at the Black Music Honors.
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In June 2024, Angie Stone was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Angie Stone lived in Atlanta, Georgia, with her son, Michael, and her daughter, Diamond.
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In March 2015, it was reported that Angie Stone had been arrested for assaulting her 30-year-old daughter.
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Angie Stone said that both her mother and her mother's sister were diabetic.
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Angie Stone was killed in a car accident near Montgomery, Alabama, on March 1,2025, at the age of 63.