Sly Stone
Sign in to saveAmerican musician, singer, guitarist, and record producer (1943–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943-01-01
- Died
- 2025-06-09
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Thank You
- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 68,061
- Total plays
- 290,224
Tags
funkjazzsoulbluesamerican
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
via Crossref · CC0
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1943
- Died
- 9 June 2025
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Stewart
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Denton
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Sibling
- Rose Stone
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Church of God in Christ
Article
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).
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1943 births2025 deaths20th-century African-American male singers20th-century American guitarists20th-century American keyboardists20th-century American male singers20th-century American singers21st-century American keyboardists21st-century American male singers21st-century American singersAfrican-American guitaristsAfrican-American male singer-songwriters