“It really was like the first album, in a way,” Russell says. Back in 2009, the Head and the Heart were a tight-knit group of friends playing open mics and house shows around Seattle.

Sly Stone, a funk pioneer whose influence and impact as leader of the musical group Sly and the Family Stone was as enduring as his career was brief, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Like, I think there shoudn’t be ‘Black radio.’ Just radio. Everybody be a part of everything.” Stone’s own band, Sly and the Family Stone, came together over the course of 1966 and 1967.

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Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and ...

Stone embodied the contradictions of American popular music – arguably even America itself: brash and light-hearted on the one hand, with a streak of darkness and self-destructiveness on the other.

A version of this article appears in print on June 11, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Stone and His Band Redefined the Sound of an America That Couldn’t Last.