In the years since the apex of Sly & The Family Stone, his records have been sampled over 800 times, with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Kendrick Lamar wielding fragments of his imagination.

Original Sly and the Family Stone founding members Jerry Martini and Greg Errico, along with Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson’s daughter, Phunne Stone, kicked off the Everyday People tour in Las Vegas ...

Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone passed away in June but his soulful funky music and desire for world unity resurrected Saturday night inside Bryant Park. Thousands packed the popular NYC space for a ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sly Stone, one of the most innovative musicians in recorded music ...

We throw out too easily words such as superstar, mythical, legendary. What requires super beyond star, already explosive and bright? What myths are told? How have they created legend? P.S: If you have ...

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding. Sly Stone, 1969. If you want to see my aunt Pam stop what she’s doing and dance, play Sly and the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...

It’s a real American moment out there: battle lines drawn, tear gas drifting, charity and gentleness on their heels. Turn inward, inside ourselves, and it looks even worse, the mind’s landscape pocked ...

Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering funk musician and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has passed away at the age of 82 in Los Angeles. Born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Stone was known for creating a unique ...