{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82","publication_date":"June 09, 2025","summary":"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 People,” “Stand!” and “Family Affair,” has died.","author_name":"By Hillel Italie, Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2025\/06\/b59b5447bb0f46171795a5d95ba166a1-GettyImages-139836933-1024x749.jpg","thumbnail_height":749,"thumbnail_width":1024}