Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown on January 30 1961) is an American R&B, soul, and neo soul singer, songwriter, keyboardist, record producer, and occasional actress. She has just recently been nominated for the Best R&B Peformance By A Duo/Group W/Vocals Grammy for her duet with Betty Wright for the hit single "Baby". Biography Early years Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina, where she began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Blakely N. Scott. In the early 1980s, Stone (then known as Angie B.) was a member of The Sequence, a major female hip hop/funk trio. They had a hit in 1980 with "Funk You Up", which reached number fifteen on the U.S. Top Black Singles chart. She then worked with Mantronix, before singing background for Lenny Kravitz's fifth studio album 5. Stone emerged during the 1990s as part of the R&B trio Vertic

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