Born March 15, 1943, in Denton, Texas, Stone helped pioneer the emerging psychedelic soul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s with his genre-blending group. Sly and the Family Stone is considered rock’s ...

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early ...

The Family Stone’s breakthrough hit was 1968’s “Dance to the Music,” in which their voices and instruments, high and low, ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...