It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul and pop.

Funk-rock icon Sly Stone, known for his influential band Sly and the Family Stone, passed away on June 9, 2025, at the age of ...

Funk master and innovator Sly Stone, whose music drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking ...