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Michael Putland/Getty Images Legendary funk musician Sly Stone's daughter, Phunne Stone, has revealed in a new documentary that she tried snorting chalk as a child to emulate her father's cocaine use.
Back when Sly Stone was in the throes of drug addiction, his cocaine use was obvious — even to his young daughter. ... plus new interviews with longtime band members and Stone's children ...
Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for 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.
Phunne is the child of Stone and his Sly and the Family Stone bandmate Cynthia Robinson, and in Sly Lives! she tells a story of how she once tried to imitate her father's drug use as a little girl.
Cynthia Robinson (January 12, 1944 – November 23, 2015) was an American musician, best known for being a founding member of Sly and the Family Stone, for which she was the trumpeter and a vocalist. [2]
Stone with Elton John and other singers, including her daughter Lisa. Rose Stone (born Rosemary Stewart, March 21, 1945) is an American singer and keyboardist.She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly and the Family Stone, [1] a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers, Sly Stone and Freddie Stone.
Sly Stone makes a rare appearance with his daughter Phunne Stone and the Family Stone during Hippiefest 2015 at Count Basie Theater on August 23, 2015, in Red Bank, New Jersey. "She beat the ...
In 1966, Freddie co-founded the band Sly and the Family Stone, fronted by his brother Sly and including his sister Rose. He was the guitarist and vocalist. After leaving the band in the late 1970s, Stone signed a short recording contract with Motown Records. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of Sly and the ...