Sly and the Family Stone

Sly and The Family Stone is an American group of music practitioner a mixture of drunk Funk, and Rock Psychédélique. Credit between 1967 and 1983, the group had a considerable influence on very many Pop artists of his time, in particular from its multiracial approach, in America where white and black musics still were very partitioned. Sly and the Family Stone is thus regarded as the first group of the history of the Rock'n'roll cash of the members of different ethnic origins.

Directed by the singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, the group was, as its name indicates it, mainly made up members of his own family. Its new mixture of musical ingredients considered at the time as antagonists to him was worth a great success near the public (four albums of the group, as well as the many individual ones, all were well classified in the charts) and an enormous influence on the Pop, the Rock but also the Rap (the group was very often samplé). The writer Joel Selvin, author of a biography of the group, thus declared: " there exist two types of negro music: negro music of before Sly Stone, and that according to. "

The group finally separated in 1975 because of competitions between its members, and especially of the problems of Drogue S of Sly Stone. That Ci nevertheless continued to occur under the name of Sly and the Family Stone until in 1987, date on which he was condemned for use of cocaine.

Sly and the Family Stone was established with the Rock' roll Hall off Famed in 1993.

In 2007, Sly Stone makes a come-back on scene, for a round of summer. Its fans will on the occasion to see it longer than during its appearance flash to the Grammy Awards 2006.

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