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, who died this week, once wrote a song called “Time,” which included this lyric: “Time needs another minute at least/Take your time, but you’ve got a limit.” He was right about ...

Sylvester Stewart, who as leader of Sly and the Family Stone served up an intoxicating alchemy of soul, rock and R&B to pave the way for funk music's heyday, has died. He was 82 years old. The ...

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back!

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back!

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back!

FILE - Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)© The Associated Press ...

Directed by Questlove, featuring artists like D’Angelo, Chaka Khan and Andre 3000, the documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), now on Disney+ in Canada, tells the story of the musical ...

Stone missed recording deadlines. His relationship with the band had begun to fray amid creative disagreements, drug use, and Sly’s erratic behavior.

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.

At a time of protests over conditions in inner cities and police killings of Black Americans, as well as an ascendant women's liberation movement, Sly and the Family Stone featured Black and white ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as ...