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Sly Stone
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American musician, singer, guitarist, and record producer (1943–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Thank You
- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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Film & TV
Acting · Denton, 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,…
Known for
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) — Self2025
- Carol Doda Topless at the Condor — Self (archive footage)2024
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — Self - Performer (archive footage)2021
- 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything — Self (archive footage)2021
- Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation — Self2019
- On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone2017
- Finding the Funk — Himself2014
- The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove2014
- Coming Back for More2009
- Sly & The Family Stone: Live at Tokyo Jazz Festival 2008 — vocals, keyboards2008
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1943
- Active to
- 2025
Discography
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- 68,061
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- 290,224
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Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, 15 March 1943, in Denton, Texas; died 9 June, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. Sly & the Family Stone was started in Vallejo, California and eventually had artists from around the San Francisco Bay Area. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sly+Stone">Read more
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,429x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,822x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,075x
- Cross-Validatory Choice and Assessment of Statistical Predictions
· 1974 · cited 7,968x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,597x
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Quotes
- “Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song. A butcher, a banker, a drummer, and then Makes no difference what group I'm in. I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)”
- “There is a blue one who can't accept the green one For living with the black one, trying to be a skinny one. Different strokes, for different folks! And so on, and so on, and scooby-dooby-doo. (oooh, sha sha!) We've got to live together!”
- “I am no better, and neither are you. We are the same whatever we do. You love me, you hate me, you know me and then, You can't figure out the bag I'm in. I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)”
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Key facts
- Born
- Sylvester Stewart , ( 1943-03-15 ) March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas , U.S.
- Died
- June 9, 2025 (2025-06-09) (aged 82), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Genres
- Funk soul psychedelic soul progressive soul funk rock avant-funk
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician band leader record producer
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards guitar bass guitar drums harmonica
- Works
- Solo with the Family Stone
- Years active
- 1956–2023
- Labels
- Warner Bros. Cleopatra Epic
- Formerly of
- Sly and the Family Stone The Viscaynes
- Website
- slystonemusic .com
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Official website
Home - The Official Sly Stone Site
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.slystonemusic.com
- Image
- Sly Stone performing on Midnight Special on NBC, 1973.jpg
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- Sly Stone
- date of birth
- 1943-03-15
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- birth name
- Sylvester Stewart
- social media followers
- 13154
- pseudonym
- Sly Stone
- date of death
- 2025-06-09
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
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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 psychedelic soul and 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.
Born in Denton, Texas, and raised in the Bay Area city of Vallejo in Northern California, Stone mastered several instruments at an early age and performed gospel music as a child with his siblings (and future bandmates) Freddie and Rose. In the mid-1960s, he worked as both a record producer for Autumn Records and a disc jockey for San Francisco radio station KDIA. In 1966, Stone and his brother Freddie joined their bands together to form Sly and the Family Stone, a racially integrated, mixed-gender act. The group would score hits including "Dance to the Music" (1968), "Everyday People" (1968), "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (1969), "I Want to Take You Higher" (1969), "Family Affair" (1971), and "If You Want Me to Stay" (1973) and acclaimed albums including Stand! (1969), There's a Riot Goin' On (1971), and Fresh (1973).