Angie Stone, the soul singer who rose to fame as a member of pioneering female hip-hop trio the Sequence and later became a prominent soul singer, died at the age of 63.

A source close to AllHipHop who works with Stone's team confirmed she and nine other band members were involved in the accident while traveling home from Alabama.

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,