Sly and the Family Stone

Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band which was fronted 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, multi-gender" lineup and was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music.

Brothers Sly Stone and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone combined their bands (Sly & the Stoners and Freddie & the Stone Souls) in 1967. 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.

The group recorded five Billboard Hot 100 hits which reached the top 10, and four ground-breaking albums, which greatly influenced the sound of American pop music, soul, R&B, funk, and hip hop music. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

During the early 1970s, the band switched to a grittier funk sound, which was as influential on the music industry as their earlier work. The band began to fall apart during this period because of drug abuse and ego clashes and lead to group's dissolution in 1975. Sly Stone continued to record albums and tour with a new rotating lineup under the "Sly and the Family Stone" name from 1975 to 1983.

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