CYNTHIA ROBINSON was a single mother when she joined Sly and the Family Stone as a trumpeter and vocalist in 1966. As one of the band’s most prominent figures, she became lovers with Sly, giving birth to their daughter, Sylvyette “Phunne” Stone, in 1976. Years later, as Robinson carried the torch with the Family Stone into the next century, Phunne would have the chance to join her mother onstage as a vocalist.

"Family Affair," an in-depth (nine pages) piece by writer Michael A. Gonzales (Wax Poetics #66) that takes the reader from Robinson's high school band class to the top of Planet Pop with one of the greatest bands on the planet to the aftermath tough times when the gigs were few and the bills were due. The story features interviews with Sylvyette “Phunne” Stone, Jerry Martini, Greg Errico, Joel Selvin and others. On stands, April 15th http://www.waxpoetics.com...-axelrod-2