Sly Stone

Known for ActingBorn 1943-03-15Died 2025-06-09Denton, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Woodstock Diary

The Midnight Special

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

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

Finding the Funk

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

Woodstock

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

The Mike Douglas Show

Kraft Music Hall

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone

Coming Back for More

Sly & The Family Stone: Live at Tokyo Jazz Festival 2008

Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In

Let Me Have It All

Sly & The Family Stone: Swing In '70

Sly & The Family Stone: Harlem Cultural Festival '69

Say Hello to Our Good Friend Paul Shaffer