12 h. ago Jennifer Hudson leads tributes after R&B singer Angie Stone killed in car crash

The Grammy-nominated singer died in a horrific crash as she traveled from a performance on Saturday

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12 h. ago Jennifer Hudson, MC Hammer lead tributes for R&B singer Angie Stone

Fans are remembering R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a weekend crash on a highway in Alabama while returning from a performance

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26 h. ago Tributes pour in for R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a highway crash

Fans are remembering R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a weekend crash on a highway in Alabama while returning from a performance

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32 h. ago Angie Stone fans are all saying the same thing about singer's heartbreaking final social media post after icon's tragic death

A video uploaded to Instagram last week saw Stone share the news of her 'big surprise' with a grin, managing to still look glamorous in her casual Tom and Jerry T-Shirt attire.

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34 h. ago Angie Stone was a wise singer who deeply understood the power of love and lust

The neo-soul artist, who has died aged 63, had years of experience by the time she became a star – and brought it to bear on a carnal, careworn catalogue• News: soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63Angie Stone was no overnight success. By the time 2001’s Mahogany Soul made her a star, she’d logged two decades in the game, starting out in pioneering all-girl rap trio the Sequence, before passing through went-nowhere R&B groups like Devox and Vertical Hold and writing and singing with other artists (including D’Angelo, her former lover and father of their son, Michael). Once Clive Davis’s Arista Records signed her in 1999, those years of experience set her apart from the neo-soul pack, having worn a powerful grain into her rich, agile voice, and steeping her music in soul’s deep history.Her debut for Arista, Black Diamond, retooled lush 70s soul for the new century: Green Grass Vapors – a love song to the sweet leaf with Stone “higher than the Thunder Dome” – was from ...

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35 h. ago Angie Stone says she has been a role model for Beyonce and Alicia Keys in resurfaced interview after death

Angie Stone says she has been a role model for Beyonce and Alicia Keys in resurfaced interview following her death.

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48 h. ago Music legend Angie Stone dead at 63 as Wish I Didn't Miss You singer killed in car crash

Her daughter said: "My mommy is gone".

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50 h. ago Angie Stone dead at 63 as Wish I Didn't Miss You singer killed in car accident

Legendary American singer Angie Stone - whose hits included the iconic song Wish I Didn't Miss You - has died at the age of 63 after being involved in a car accident

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5 d. ago Netflix's Toxic Town cast as true story drama about toxic waste scandal launches

Netflix dubs the series as a 'story of community resilience in the face of institutional negligence and greed — and the power of parents’ love for their children'

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7 d. ago Roberta Flack’s performances softly burned with the fire of life itself

The soul singer was ambitiously diverse in her musicianship, and enthralled at every turn – whether doing desolate folk cover versions or lighter, sophisticated popIn the liner notes to 2023’s Lost Takes – which excavated the tapes that had served as Roberta Flack’s audition for Atlantic Records over half a century earlier – the poet Harmony Holiday wrote that Flack possessed “the voice of the idyllic afterlife you’d want to arrive in after the end of a dysfunctional world”.Indeed, Flack sang like she was equally conversant with the ecstasy of faith and the agony of life. The dignified richness of her vocal was tempered by the subtly volcanic power she displayed on her reading of To Sir With Love off Lost Takes – a not-so-quiet fire that always resided within her. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cult singer Bill Fay dies as his label pays tribute to 'gentleman wise beyond our times'

Iconic folk singer-songwriter Bill Fay has died aged 81 his record label has confirmed in a touching statement

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1 week ago Georgia Harrison pauses ITV documentary filming as she admits 'I am scared'

Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power and Profit will see the Love Island star explore the porn industry and seek to uncover just how far her own illegal video has spread, and who might be profiting from it

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1 week ago Georgia Harrison halts filming of new ITV documentary in emotional moment

Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power and Profit will see Love Island star seek to uncover just how far her own illegal video has spread, and who might be profiting from it

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