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Sly Lives!’ Filmmakers Questlove And Joseph Patel On Sly Stone’s Genius And That Revealing Encounter With Maria Shriver – Contenders TV: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety
The impact Sly Stone and his group is restored and examined in the documentary Sly Lives!, from the team behind the Oscar-winning Summer of Soul.
(aka the Burden of Black Genius), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and produced by Joseph Patel, Oscar winners for Summer of Soul. The new film, from Onyx Collective and streaming on Hulu, shows how Sly Stone innovated in multiple facets of music-making: in production, in style – fusing rock, soul, funk, psychedelia, gospel – and in forming a band that was integrated both in terms of race and gender. But it’s also extremely, it’s very possible for all of that to get lost to history,” Questlove sad as he and Patel appeared on a panel for Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety event.
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