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Quite a legend.
variety.com
His life and career were documented earlier this year by Grammy and Oscar-winning “Summer of Soul” director Questlove in “Sly Lives: aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which also features unfiltered commentary from multiple Black artists about the pressures that come with success.
Questlove said, “One of the strongest quotes from the movie is that Sly created the alphabet that we are still using to express music. He was the first to take advantage of being a bedroom musician, multi-track recording, the wah-wah, the drum machine, and doing everything by himself. We praise Stevie Wonder and Prince for these things, but Sly was the prototype. He also single-handedly revived hip-hop with all of the samples that came from him.”
Sly Stone, Funk-Rock Pioneer Who Led the Family Stone, Dies at 82
Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82.
variety.com
His life and career were documented earlier this year by Grammy and Oscar-winning “Summer of Soul” director Questlove in “Sly Lives: aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which also features unfiltered commentary from multiple Black artists about the pressures that come with success.
Questlove said, “One of the strongest quotes from the movie is that Sly created the alphabet that we are still using to express music. He was the first to take advantage of being a bedroom musician, multi-track recording, the wah-wah, the drum machine, and doing everything by himself. We praise Stevie Wonder and Prince for these things, but Sly was the prototype. He also single-handedly revived hip-hop with all of the samples that came from him.”
