
Person
Sly Stone
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 15, 1943
- Died
- Jun 9, 2025
- From
- Denton, Texas, USA
Sylvester Stewart (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds". Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the "progressive soul" movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sly Stone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Woodstock

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

The Mike Douglas Show

The Midnight Special

Kraft Music Hall

Finding the Funk

Woodstock Diary

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone

Coming Back for More

Let Me Have It All
Sly & The Family Stone: Live at Tokyo Jazz Festival 2008

Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In

Sly & The Family Stone: Harlem Cultural Festival '69