2025Nominee
Best Performance
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Cynthia Robinson
Actor
January 12, 1944
Biography
Cynthia Robinson (January 12, 1944 – November 23, 2015) was an American musician, best known for being a founding member of Sly and the Family Stone, for which she was the trumpeter and a vocalist. Her voice and presence were featured in the hits "Dance to the Music" and "I Want to Take You Higher." Questlove of the hip hop band the Roots has called Robinson the original "hypeman."
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1970Winner
Best Performance
Woodstock
1999Nominee
Best Performance
Prince: Rave Un2 the Year 2000
Career Highlights
1998Highlight
Best Performance
Prince: Beautiful Strange
1993Highlight
Best Performance
Let Me Have It All
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SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Woodstock
Let Me Have It All