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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Eddie Hazel, List of P-Funk members, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Fuzzy Haskins, Billy Bass Nelson, Michael Hampton, Calvin Simon, Tiki Fulwood, Sly Stone, Garry Shider, Maceo Parker, Shaunna Hall, Roger Troutman, Muruga Booker, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Dennis Chambers, Prakash John, Fred Wesley, Eric McFadden, Jerome Brailey, Overton Loyd, Ruth Copeland, Jeanette McGruder, Philippe Wynne, Amp Fiddler, Walter Morrison, Earl Van Dyke, Dawn Silva, DeWayne McKnight, Pedro Bell, Glen Goins, Cordell Mosson, Catfish Collins, Greg Boyer, Michael "Clip" Payne, Ray Davis, Jeanette Washington, Taka Boom, Grady Thomas, Belita Woods, Donnie Sterling, Sheila Horne, Jessica Cleaves, Mallia Franklin, Lynn Mabry, Flip Cornett, Linda Shider. Excerpt: Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. The Stewart family was a deeply-religious middle-class household from Denton, Texas. The parents, K.C. and Alpha Stewart, held the family together under the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and encouraged musical expression in the household. Born 15 March 1943, Sylvester Stewart was the second of five children raised in Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area. After the family moved from Denton, Texas to Vallejo, Sylvester and his brother Freddie and their sisters Rose and Vaetta formed "The Stewart Four" as children, performing gospel music in the Church of God in Christ and even recording a single local release 78 rpm single, "On the Battlefield" b/w "Walking in Jesus' Name," in 1952. The eldest sister, Loretta, was the only Stewart child not ...
