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Sly Stone, leader of 1960s funk band, dies at age 82

Union Leader 10 Jun 2025
Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk music, has died at the age of 82, his family ....
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Sly Stone, Leader Of 1960s Funk Band, Dies At 82

NDTV 10 Jun 2025
Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk music, has... .
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Front man for Hall of Fame funk band Sly and the Family Stone dead at 82

Michigan Live 10 Jun 2025
The family of Sly Stone has confirmed the legendary funk icon died Monday at the age of 82. Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, was a founder and front man for the band Sly and the Family Stone which rose to popularity in the late 1960s.
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Influential leader of revolutionary funk band dies at 82

The Oregonian 10 Jun 2025
The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk ... No band better captured the ...
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Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong, and his early funk band days

San Diego Union-Tribune 04 May 2025
Logical, but wrong, since Marsalis’ first band of note as a teenager, The Creators, was a funk and R&B band that catered to young, dance-happy audiences eager to get their groove on.
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Dutch funk band to bring some exciting new sounds to this year’s Jazz Festival (Derry City & Strabane District Council)

Public Technologies 17 Apr 2025
) Dutch funk band to bring some exciting new sounds to this year's Jazz Festival ... The 8-piece band creates their eclectic sound with a mix of vocals, guitar, bass, drums, piano, trumpet and saxophone.
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