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Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...
The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but troubled musician Sly Stone and his group Sly and the Family Stone ...
At the suggestion of Stone's friend, saxophonist Jerry Martini, Sly and Freddie combined their bands, creating Sly and the Family Stone in November 1966. At first the group was called Sly Brothers and Sisters but after their first gig at the Winchester Cathedral, a night club in Redwood City, California , they changed the name to Sly & the ...
Sly and the Family Stone’s first album, “A Whole New Thing,” was too ahead of its time to catch on (it was a commercial dud), and Sly was told that to save the band he needed to create a hit ...
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.
Other members of Sound Hole were drummer Bill Gibson and bassist Mario Cipollina, who also eventually joined with Huey and The News. Sound Hole was the major local competition to Huey's band Clover. After Sound Hole, Colla was enlisted as sax man/arranger with Sly and the Family Stone, recording and touring with Sly for a few years.
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.
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.