Angie Stone
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Angela Laverne Stone was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer. With a career spanning more than four decades, she has been credited with revolutionizing the sound of hip-hop and neo soul.
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Angela Brown, known professionally as Angie Stone, is an American singer, singer-songwriter, record producer, and television actor. Born in Columbia in 1961, she began her work period in 1979. Her musical genres include neo soul, funk, contemporary R&B, soul, and blues. She performs using the keyboard instrument, voice, and saxophone.
Stone has released music through Arista Records, Concord Records, J Records, and Stax Records. Her notable works include the titles *It All Starts with Me*, *Dying From Dirty Teeth*, and *Dance Until You Die*. She writes in English and speaks the language natively. Her official website is located at theangiestone.com.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- It All Starts with Me
- Dying From Dirty Teeth
- Dance Until You Die
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Film & TV
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown, December 18, 1961) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, and has won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. In 2021, she received the Soul Music Icon Award at the Black Music Honors. She rose to fame in the late 1970s as member of the hip hop trio The Sequence. In the early 1990s, she…
Known for
- My Real Life — Self2024
- Brothers — Marie2021
- Entanglement — Sadie2021
- Behind the Movement — Soloist2018
- To Love The Soul Of A Woman — Ursula Sanders2017
- Queens of Soul at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2015
- Love N Success — Mrs. Brown2015
- My Other Mother — Delores2014
- Where's the Love? — Wife One2014
- Ride Along — Market Shopper2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1961
- Active to
- 2025
Discography
- Black Diamond1999
- Life Story1999
- Everyday2000
- No More Rain2000
- Brotha2001
- Brotha, Part II2001
- Mahogany Soul2001
- Backstabbers2002
- More Than a Woman2002
- Wish I Didn’t Miss You2002
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Key facts
- Born
- Angela Laverne Brown , ( 1961-12-18 ) December 18, 1961, Columbia, South Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- March 1, 2025 (2025-03-01) (aged 63), Montgomery County, Alabama , U.S.
- Other name
- Angie B.
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter rapper actress record producer
- Years active
- 1979–2025
- Spouse s
- Lil' Rodney C!, (m. 1983; div. late 1980s)
- Partner
- D'Angelo (1994–1999)
- Genres
- R&B soul neo soul hip-hop
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards saxophone
- Works
- Angie Stone discography
- Labels
- Arista J Stax Shanachie
- Formerly of
- The Sequence Vertical Hold
- Website
- theangiestone .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Columbia
- Place of death
- Montgomery
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- blues
- Genre
- contemporary R&B
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Stax Records
- Official website
- www.theangiestone.com
- Image
- AngieStone2019.png
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Angie Stone
- date of birth
- 1961-12-18
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- name in native language
- Angie Stone
- name in kana
- アンジー・ストーン
- social media followers
- 79787
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2025-03-01
- cause of death
- traffic collision
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
- manner of death
- accidental death
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- pseudonym
- Angie Stone
- medical condition
- type 2 diabetes
- unmarried partner
- D'Angelo
- birth name
- Angela Laverne Brown
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Encyclopedic overview
Angela Laverne Stone (née Brown; December 18, 1961 – March 1, 2025) was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer. With a career spanning more than four decades, she has been credited with revolutionizing the sound of hip-hop and neo soul.
Originally known as Angie B., she rose to fame in 1979 as a member of The Sequence, the first female music act in hip hop music. In the early 1990s, she became a member of the R&B group Vertical Hold. In late 1990s, she pursued a solo career as Angie Stone and signed with Arista Records to release her debut solo album Black Diamond (1999), which received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned the single "No More Rain (In This Cloud)". After transitioning to J Records, she released her second album, Mahogany Soul (2001), which spawned the hit single "Wish I Didn't Miss You". It was followed by Stone Love (2004) and The Art of Love & War (2007), the latter which became her first and only number-one album on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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