Questlove’s Sly & The Household Stone documentary will likely be unveiled subsequent 12 months.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) will likely be premiering on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition. A synopsis of the documentary, courtesy of the outlet, reads as follows:
“An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Household Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout whereas shedding gentle on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.”
Questlove had first introduced the documentary in 2021.
“It goes past saying that Sly’s artistic legacy is in my DNA,” The Roots drummer stated in an announcement on the time. “It’s a Black musician’s blueprint. To be given the honour to discover his historical past and legacy is past a dream for me.”
SLY LIVES! Serves because the follow-up to Quest’s directorial debut, the documentary Summer time of Soul. The documentary obtained the Grammy for Finest Music Movie in 2022.
Together with the Sly documentary, a memoir on the influential artist, titled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), was launched final 12 months. The e-book was launched on Questlove’s AUWA Books, a publishing imprint of MCD/FSG.
“For so long as I can bear in mind people have been asking me to inform my story, I wasn’t prepared,” Sly stated in an announcement forward of the e-book’s launch that 12 months. “I needed to be in a brand new way of thinking to grow to be Sylvester Stewart once more to inform the true story of Sly Stone. It’s been a wild trip and hopefully my followers take pleasure in it too.”
