Lenny Kravitz Pays Tribute to Late Angie Stone
- Lacey James
- Mar 4
- 2 min read
Photo via/unknown/LennyKravitzInstagram
Lenny Kravitz and Angie Stone have a connection through the music industry, particularly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Before her solo career, Angie Stone was part of the R&B/hip-hop trio The Sequence, one of the first female rap groups, and later worked as a songwriter and background vocalist.
In the late 1980s, she collaborated with Lenny Kravitz as a background vocalist on some of his early recordings. Her deep, soulful voice added richness to his rock-infused sound, and their musical paths intertwined as part of the era’s vibrant soul, rock, and R&B crossover scene. Stone has also worked with artists like D’Angelo, helping shape the neo-soul movement, while Kravitz remained a key figure in rock and funk-infused music.
Kravitz commented on Stones untimely death on his Instagram.
“Angie….Wow. This has taken me a couple of days to digest. I had the pleasure of knowing this queen since the very beginning of my true musical journey. I was looking for a background singer and sax player for my first club tour and she walked into my life at an audition. I instantly knew that I was in the presence of greatness. We did a tour together and became family. Being from down south (as we called it) she reminded me of my grandmother and her people who were from a small town in Georgia. We bonded over music, humour, and southern cuisine which she cooked with great joy. She knew her food tasted better than everyone else’s and it did. She had a phrase that I loved, “Lenny, I am overly confident”. She believed it and so did I. She went on to become Angie Stone and changed the face of music as a solo artist, becoming known as the queen of neo soul. She already had an illustrious past but this was now HER time.
As a black woman who was told she was not the right age, not the right look, etc she busted through and never looked back. The rest is history. Writer, producer, arranger, musician and master vocalist. The best of the best. I got to play on some of those great recordings and they are treasures in my mind and spirit. My deepest condolences to Diamond, Michael Jr and the entire family. LK”
Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated R&B and neo-soul singer, tragically passed away on March 1, 2025, at the age of 63, due to a car accident near Montgomery, Alabama.