2025Nominee
Best Performance
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Sly Stone
Actor
Denton, Texas, USA
March 15, 1943
Biography
Sylvester Stewart (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds". Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the "progressive soul" movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sly Stone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2021Winner
Best Performance
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
1970Winner
Best Performance
Woodstock
Career Highlights
2024Highlight
Best Performance
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
2019Highlight
Best Performance
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Video
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Woodstock