Back to the Stone age: Angie Stone says she loves her gay fans--and we'll love dancing to her new CD.The rumor went like this: In March 2002, at an African-American street festival in Newark, N.J., R&B diva Angie Stone This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. supposedly asked to see hands of the "strong black brothas" as opposed to the "homos" in the audience. The story made it into the gay magazine Venus, but Stone has passionately denied it since: That rumor and others, she told one writer, started "since I had to fire one band member in particular." "That just hurt me so deeply," Stone tells The Advocate, "because most of my best friends, who are some of the most loyal friends that I've ever had in my life, have been gay. I've learned over the years that people are people, and the thing that I love is, I'm accepted on all fronts." Ironically, the rumor came out just as Stone was riding high on her hit single "Wish I Didn't Miss You." Written by Ivan Matias and Andrea Martin
Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15 1947)[1][2] is a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedienne. , then remixed by Hex Hector Hex Hector (born in 1965 in the Bronx, United States) is one of the most famous dance remixers of the 1990s, and also one of the most famous in terms of mainstream crossover popularity. He also won the Grammy in 2001 for Best Remixer. and Mac Quayle, the song became the gay dance anthem A dance anthem, floor filler (also floorfiller) or club anthem is a dance (or disco) track which receives almost timeless status, being played commonly many years after its release. of the year. And after Stone performed "Wish I Didn't Miss You" at Junior Vasquez's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of gay pride show, she says, "it was just like everybody kind of got it and left that [rumor] alone." Stone moves from pride to joy in her new album, Stone Love, set for release July 6 on J Records. "I didn't just want to appeal to the broken-spirited or the brokenhearted bro·ken·heart·ed adj. Grievously sad. brokenhearted Adjective overwhelmed by grief or disappointment Adj. 1. [but] to people that were having joy in their life," Stone says of the CD, which features collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Anthony Hamilton, Missy Elliott and Tweet, and soul legend Betty Wright. In the two years since her last CD, Mahogany Soul, sold more than a million copies worldwide, Stone has appeared in the films The Fighting Temptations and The Hot Chick and tackled Broadway as Chicago's Big Mama Morton. Now she's keen to get back to her gay dance fans with tier new single, "I Wanna wan·na Informal 1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now? 2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? Thank You." Stone says excitedly, "We just did an awesome remix that I think you guys are gonna love." Blacklow is an associate producer on NBC's Today, Weekend Edition. |
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