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.

Sly Stone Family Stone was married to model and actress Kathy Silva, with whom he famously tied the knot on stage during a sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 5 ...

Sly Stone, San Francisco deejay turned funk music icon, has died, his family announced on Monday. He was 82. Sly Stone died following complications from COPD(X) “It is with profound sadness that ...

Not even in a world this big, bad, beautiful, wonderful, horrible, overstimulated and hyperbolic can we begin to overstate the importance of Sly Stone. His death on Monday at 82 feels too enormous ...

Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham once recalled an incident in 1973 when Miles Davis was hanging out at Sly Stone’s New York apartment. Davis started playing “these nine-note ...

It was also seven years after Mr. Stone arrived on the music scene promising “A Whole New Thing,” and boy, had he delivered. He introduced not just a whole new sound but a whole new kind of ...

Sly Stone, one of the pioneers of funk music, has died aged 82, his family have said. As front man for his band Sly And The Family Stone, the musician fused soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel to ...

FILE – Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) ...

Sly Stone in 1973. Michael Putland/Getty Born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, on March 15, 1943, Stone was raised in the Bay Area of California, where he began embracing his love of music at a ...

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News.

Sly and the Family Stone achieved widespread fame in 1967 Michael Ochs Archives Stone’s influence on pop, funk and rock music was solidified with the release of the band’s album “Stand ...

Stone, his brother Freddie, and his sisters Rose and Loretta made their first recording in 1952, releasing a gospel single. Their debut album, A Whole New Thing, hit the shelves in 1967.