Music legend Sly Stone has unfortunately died at age 82. Read how Questlove, Chuck D, Clive Davis, EARTHGANG and others are honoring his unshakable legacy.

You will forever live," Questlove continued. Public Enemy ‘s Chuck D thanked Questlove "for keeping his FIRE blazing in this Century" on X while sharing an illustration of Stone and Questlove.

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 ...

Sly Stone, the visionary multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who led Sly and the Family Stone – in doing so helping to pioneer what would come to be known as funk music – has died at ...

Stone largely disappeared from public life after the ’70s. Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

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 ...

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.

But as with much of Sly’s work, it’s the sum of its parts that makes “Family Affair” such an enduring cut more than 50 years later. — D.R.