Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1970s as “Angie B” in the hip-hop trio the Sequence, died in a car crash Saturday morning. She was 63. Stone was leaving a performance in Montgomery,

Singer Angie Stone was involved in a crash around 4 a.m. local time Saturday while driving to Atlanta from Alabama.

After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B.