‘My mommy is gone’: R&B legend Angie Stone dead at 63

R&B singer Angie Stone, who had a huge Aussie hit in 2002, has been killed in a car crash. The star’s devastated daughter broke the news.

R&B singer Angie Stone has died in a car accident at the age of 63.

The star’s daughter, Diamond Stone, whose nickname is Ladi Diamond, announced her death via Facebook on Saturday.

“My mommy is gone,” the 41-year-old wrote alongside several crying emojis.

Angie’s spokesman, Deborah R. Champagne, told TMZ that the singer, who scored a huge worldwide hit in 2002 with the single Wish I Didn’t Miss You, had left a concert in Montgomery, Alabama, when she got into a car accident and was killed early Saturday.

Champagne shared that the soul singer’s death has left her family and friends devastated.

The singer shared Diamond with her ex-husband, Rodney Stone. She also had a 27-year-old son, Michael Archer, with D’Angelo.

Reps for Angie weren’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.

Cover of Mahogany by Angie Stone.

One week before her death, Angie took to Instagram to promote her performances in Alabama on February 28 and Baltimore on March 1.

“We’re booking tours and a lot of stuff is going on that I just don’t want to let out of the bag just yet, but you can see there is a big grin on my face,” the “singer teased in a video.

Angie, however, shared her big plans have to do with television, movies, tours and other artists.

“There is a lot of projects … we’re getting back in the mix,” she added.

Singer Angie Stone.

Angie Stone. Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images

Stone skyrocketed to fame in 1979 when she joined the all-women trio, The Sequence, with Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm.

The music icons were signed by Sugar Hill Records and released several records from 1979 to 1985.

In the 1990s, Angie started her own solo career and released her 1999 album Black Diamond. In 2002 she earned her biggest hit with the song Wish I Didn’t Miss You, which went top 10 here in Australia. She released a total of ten solo studio albums, the most recent in 2023.

Eventually, she expanded to movies and appeared in the 2002 comedy The Hot Chick and the 2014 film Ride Along.

This story first appeared in the New York Post’s Page Six and was republished with permission.

Originally published as ‘My mommy is gone’: R&B legend Angie Stone dead at 63