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San Francisco, California, United States
Sly & the Family Stone is an American funk, soul and rock band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, with varied lineups, the band was pivotal in the development of soul . .
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Sly & the Family Stone is an American funk, soul and rock band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, with varied lineups, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music. Headed by singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and containing several of his family members and friends, the band was the first major American rock band to have an integrated lineup in both race and gender. Brothers Sly and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone combined their bands (Sly & the Stoners and Freddie & the Stone Souls) at the end of 1966. Sly and Freddie Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Gregg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham completed the original lineup; Sly and Freddie's sister, singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, joined within a year, creating the lineup that is best known. This collective recorded five Top 10 hits and four groundbreaking albums, which greatly influenced the sound of American pop music, soul, R&B, funk, and hip hop music. In the preface of his 1998 book For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History, Joel Selvin sums up the importance of Sly & the Family Stone's influence on African American music by stating "there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone". The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Plsy that funky music white boy?
FAIL.
My Husband grewup next door to Sylvester and was fortunate eough to be there when they practiced. Incredible memories. Myself. . . . too young to remember but still love it!!!
sorry, this is NOT Sly and the Family Stone. It is a band called Wild Cherry it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 18, 1976.
yo man dis is the foshizzy
was surprizd ta find these guys!!!!!!!!this goes waaaaaaay back, lovin it too fuuuuunkyyyyyyyy
This is REAL old skool ... we're lovin' it!
Wiothout a doubt a leap ahead of thier time, truth be told we STILL hsve not caught up...LOL
they made a lot of good music there should be more then four songs