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Angie Stone

One of the most successful American R&B singers of the modern era, Angie Stone's introduction to singing was the gospel music she heard at her local church in Columbia, South Carolina. Born on December 18, 1961, Angela Laverne Brown joined a female hip hop/funk group, The Sequence, who were signed to the Sugar Hill label and had a 1980 hit with "Funk U Up". Other rap hits followed before Stone moved more towards soul, singing with Mantronix and Lenny Kravitz. By the 1990s she was part of the R&B trio Vertical Hold who had a hit with "Seems You're Much Too Busy" before moving on t...