Just this year, Roots drummer and hip-hop icon Questlove directed a documentary, Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), celebrating Stone's life and musical and cultural impact.

Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations ...

Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone w an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has died at the age of 82. Stone's family confirmed the musician's death in a ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became ...

Sly was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943. The family soon moved to California, where Sly began singing in the church choir from the age of 4, alongside his siblings. His nickname Sly ...

A year later, Sly and the Family Stone performed at Woodstock before dawn. Stone woke up a crowd of 400,000 people at the music festival, leading them in call-and-response style singing.

Frontman Sly Stone has passed away at the age of 82, following a series of health complications, his family announced today. He was reportedly surrounded by loved ones at the time of his death. The ...

Thanks to the group’s impact, Sly & the Family Stone were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993; the year before, Arrested Development’s “People Everyday,” which interpolates ...

Iconic funk singer, songwriter and producer Sly Stone — known best as the bandleader of his band Sly & the Family Stone — has died. He was 82 years old.

Funk icon and pioneering multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone remolded musical norms and challenged segregation along racial and gender lines, died at the age of 82 ...

The legendary group, which fused funk, rock and soul into a new form, charted three Hot 100 No. 1s among 10 top 40 hits. As the pioneering frontman of the legendary group Sly & the Family Stone ...