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

The Wish I Didn't Miss You singer was involved in a collision in Alabama following a performance.

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"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.

The group's most popular song, Funk You Up, peaked at 15 on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles.

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