Sly Stone
Acting · Born Mar 15, 1943 · Died Jun 9, 2025 (82) · 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.
Known for
Films
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
20257.1
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
20247.0
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
20217.6
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
20197.3
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
20177.0
The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove
20147.0
Finding the Funk
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