Angie Stone, veteran R&B singer-songwriter, dead in car crash

Grammy-nominated R&B artist Angie Stone has died after a car crash, aged 63, her daughter says.

“My mommy is gone,” her daughter, Diamond Stone, wrote in a Facebook post.

Stone was fatally injured when a van she was travelling in overturned in Alabama early on Saturday following a performance, according to media reports.

The artist, who was behind songs like No More Rain (In This Cloud) and Wish I Didn’t Miss You, was nominated for three Grammys over her career. She started out in the 1970s as a member of the female hip-hop trio The Sequence.

Her daughter, who is also a musician and goes by the nickname Ladi Diamond, said on Facebook that she was “numb”. Hours earlier, she had asked for prayers for her family and said she was on the road.

A spokesperson for the artist told the BBC that her family had travelled to Montgomery, Alabama, and planned to release more information soon.

Her longtime publicist told CNN: “Angie Stone’s voice and spirit will live on forever in the hearts of those she touched.”