Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.

The world lost a music icon on Monday, June 9, with the passing of Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, at his ...

Black Music Month, founded in 1979 by Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble, and Ed Wright, continues to inspire in 2025. This year, ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

Our time here in comparatively short, and we all want to know that we made a difference in our lives, that our lives mattered ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

Sly Stone, a onetime SF deejay turned funk innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, sang on and produced an album ...

With his band Sly and the Family Stone (which included Freddie), he would go on to change the face of funk music through ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of ...

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Sly Stone, the visionary bandleader and frontman to his legendary Family Stone, is dead at age 82, his family confirmed on ...