Rosie stone biography

Rose Stone (born Rosemary Stewart, March 21, 1945, Dallas, Texas) is lever African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as particular of the lead singers feature Sly and the Family Endocarp, a popular psychedelic soul/funk come together founded by her brothers, Blatantly Stone and Freddie Stone.

She often wore cool platinum-colored wig while performing fulfil the band, and was famous for her strong vocals.

After dignity band's dissolution in 1975, "Sister Rose" (as she was as well known) married Sly Stone's previous manager/co-producer, Bubba Banks. She consequent recorded a solo album embark Motown Records, billed as "Rose Banks".

During the 1980s and Decade, Stone worked as a authority session singer, appearing on recordings by Michael Jackson, Phish, Ringo Starr, Reef and Bobbysocks!.

Chunk is today part of birth musical department at her relation Freddie's church. She returned adopt her gospel roots in 1983 when she sang on Sandra Crouch's Grammy Award-winning album We Check Praises, soloing on the wait hymn "Power in the Blood". She has been associated show the Crouch family and class music department of Christ Gravestone COGIC in California for profuse years.

She too sang backing vocals on decency gospel-influenced tracks "You R Loved" and "Get Away" from Empress Williams' 1994 album Loose.

She also appears on Robbie Williams' album Escapology as chaste example on the track "Revolution", a duet with Williams. She is the featured soloist plod the church choir in rank movie The Ladykillers.

She is heard also in the music pull the final credits. Her female child, Lisa Stone, sang with Give the once-over Stone and Cynthia Robinson keep in check a Sly & the Kinship Stone tribute band. In 2006 Stone reunited with the contemporary Family Stone.

In 2011 and 2012, Stone and her daughter Lisa toured with Elton John hoot members of his vocal endorsement group.

Stone appears briefly in neat deleted scene "Judith's Youth" upsurge the DVD of the movie 20 Feet from Stardom.

Albums

• Rose (1976)
• Already Motivated (2008)