Funk Legend Sly Stone, Whose Career Was Born In SF, Has Died at 82

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/funk-legend-sly-stone-whose-career-was-born-in-sf-has-died-at-82/The founder of Sly and the Family Stone, a one-time San Francisco DJ who started the groundbreaking funk band that’s now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Monday morning in Los Angeles from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. There was already likely to be a revival this summer of the music of the chart-topping 1960s and 70s funk band Sly and the Family Stone. One of their first concerts ever, recorded in Redwood City, was a lost recording that was recently found and will be released as a live album this coming July. But now that inevitable revival is going to happen earlier, and for a much sadder reason, as NPR reports that the group’s founder and