B Angie B is an African American female R&B vocalist and dancer who came onto the music scene in the early 1990s. Career B Angie B was born Angela Boyd in 1968 in the small rural town of Morton, MS. She grew up singing and honing her gritty, soulful vocals in a local church. She graduated from Morton High School in 1984. It wasn't until a few years later that she and her best friend made a decision to move to out west to pursue a singing/music career together. The friend ended up getting pregnant and Boyd relocating to California alone. It was not long after this relocation, that Boyd was discovered by members of MC Hammer's entourage of dancers and brought to Hammer's attention. Becoming a member of his mob of slick, hip hop dancers in 1988, Hammer soon discovered that Boyd was also a vocalist. Hammer is also the one credited with giving Boyd her stage name B Angie B (which stands for Beautiful Angela