The star behind the band Sly and the Family Stone had been battling numerous health issues
The star behind the band Sly and the Family Stone had been battling numerous health issues
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The funk music icon died following a "prolonged battle" with COPD and other underlying health issues, his family said.
American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone
Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco deejay turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82.
He had a string of irresistible hits but his career was derailed by drug abuse, bankruptcy and a fondness for armaments
Funk and soul musician whose band, Sly and the Family Stone, had a profound effect on US music in the 1960s and 70s
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and ’70s.
Sly Stone, funk music pioneer and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
