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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. She 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 to form another group Devox, by which time she ha...