Angie Stone Funeral: Tyler Perry’s Eulogy Condemns…
At Angie Stone‘s Atlanta funeral, family members remembered the R&B icon with an emotional eulogy from Tyler Perry and highly effective performances from Anthony Hamilton, Tamela Mann, Kirk Franklin, and Keke Wyatt bringing the home down.
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On Friday, March 14, Word of Faith Cathedral livestreamed the service full of soulful tributes and heartfelt reminiscences to have fun Angie Stone’s legendary life. In a ceremony match for a queen, lots of of roses surrounded her silver and gold coffin. A star-studded lineup took the stage to honor Stone’s contributions to a number of music genres, numerous careers, and more than 40 years within the music industry.
Tyler Perry Wasn’t Just Sad About Losing Angie Stone, He Was “Angry” That The Music Industry Cheated Her: “All Of That Money… Where Is It?”
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As the world gave the Grammy-nominated singer her flowers in death, Tyler Perry referred to as out the predatory music industry for failing to do this in life. The director mentioned he was “angry” that each one of her expertise and success by no means paid Stone what she was owed.
“Y’all got to forgive me because I’m angry at the way she was treated. I did not know all the things that she was going through [until] recently,” he mentioned concerning the just lately resurfaced claims of hundreds of thousands in unpaid royalties.
“To think that this woman was in the business for all of these years and there’s a difference between performing because you want to and performing because you have to,” he continued.
This level spoke volumes after the 63-year-old died in a car crash on the best way home from a efficiency in Montgomery, Alabama. As BOSSIP beforehand reported, Stone was touring together with her band in a Mercedes Sprinter when it collided with an 18-wheeler truck early on March 1. The “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” singer was the one fatality from the horrible crash.
Perry credited the “More Than A Woman” star with inspiring his work all through the years. He didn’t let up on holding the music industry accountable for mistreating Stone.
“All of those years, all of those songs, all of that money that was owed to her — where is it? It’s wrong, this is wrong, and I’m tired of seeing us struggle and go through things and work hard and not reap the benefits of what we were supposed to reap,” he continued.
Perry additionally mirrored on Stone’s poetic and prophetic phrases completely “preached her own eulogy” within the hit tune, “No More Rain.”
“In her song ‘No More Rain,’ she says ‘my sunshine has come and I’m all cried out, there’s no more rain in this cloud,” which he in comparison with people burdened with struggling.
“We hold so much pain, we hold so much that it has to come out of our eyes as tears. But the beauty of what she was talking about is when a cloud has no more tears, it dissipates, it’s gone,” Perry mentioned.
The Madea creator’s feedback echoed Stone’s statements from January. “I should have been able to retire 20 years ago with the money I’ve made,” she mentioned in a now-viral video.
See the star-studded tributes and full video of Angie Stone’s funeral service after the flip.
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