Producer Michael Nash wanted to do something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sound Summit, the annual rock festival on Mount Tamalpais.

The Oscar-winning producer shares how he and Questlove created a powerful tribute capturing the funk icon's genius and legacy before his passing.

The Vallejo native, revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music ...

MARTÍNEZ: In the 1960s, his band, Sly & The Family Stone, combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf music to create a new sound. JASON KING: It was a music nobody had ever heard before.

NEW YORK — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ‘70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday ...

MARTÍNEZ: In the 1960s, his band, Sly & The Family Stone, combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf music to create a new sound. JASON KING: It was a music nobody had ever heard before.

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, has died at 82. His band Sly and the Family Stone combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf to create a new sound.

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, has died at 82. His band Sly and the Family Stone combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf to create a new sound.

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, has died at 82. His band Sly and the Family Stone combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf to create a new sound.