Sly Stone

Sly Stone

Birthday: 1943-03-15

Deathday: 2025-06-09

Place of birth: Denton, Texas, USA

Also known as: Sly and the Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sylvester Stewart

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Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Woodstock Diary

Score: 9.2

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

Score: 7.6

Woodstock

Score: 7.5

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

Score: 7.3

Finding the Funk

Score: 7.2

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

Score: 7.0

The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

Score: 7.0

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Score: 6.9

Sly & The Family Stone: Swing In '70

Score: 0.0

Sly & The Family Stone: Harlem Cultural Festival '69

Score: 0.0

Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone

Score: 0.0

Let Me Have It All

Score: 0.0

Coming Back for More

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Midnight Special

Score: 7.8

The Midnight Special

Score: 7.8

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Kraft Music Hall

Score: 4.7