Death of singer Angie Stone, icon of the « Neo Soul » movement – Liberation
The singer, composer and producer Soul Angie Stone died on Saturday March 1 at 63. She is considered a pioneer of hip-hop with her exclusively female group The Sequence having signed in 1979 on the Sugar Hill Records label and separated in 1985. Musically, she then evolves within Vertical Hold but it is especially as the author-songwriter or chorister for Mary J. Blige, Lenny Kravitz (of which she will notably be the saxophonist) Let her live the music back from the front of the stage. It is thanks to the Neo Soul movement where Erykah Badu, Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill shine that she operates a return to the foreground with a first album under her name alone, Black Diamond (1999)certified gold disc, just like the second Mahany Soul (2001).
« I really think I was ahead of my time, She told the Associated Press in 1999. My music has caught up time, or time has caught up my music. ” She did not really like to be confused with the competition, believing that she remained closer to the soul spirit that she drew from the memories of her childhood from a family where her father was a member of a Gospel choir. HAS Release In 2002, she still said: “I compose music for adults, my colleagues are content to do commercial things. Instead of preserving the essence and rawness of the soul, they add dyes. Often, the people of record companies offer me the air of nothing: « You don't think you could do this song with a more hip-hop rhythm? » Or: « It would be good for you to meet the roots, you would be great together. » I always answer no. Questlove (The drummer of the roots that produced Angelo, Erykah Badu, Jaguar… Editor's note) Works with everyone and everything looks alike. It doesn't make things happen. ” She recorded a dozen albums, played the comedy in both cinema, on television and on stage on Broadway.
Angie Stone died in a road accident as she left a show in Montgomery (Alabama) on Saturday March 1, reports the American site Tmz. The exact circumstances of the accident are not yet known.
