Even by his superproductive standards, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is having an extraordinarily busy start to 2025. The Roots ...
Tributes from the music industry have poured in for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song” singer, Roberta Flack, who died at age 88 on Monday. The Grammy winner ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Elvis at last month’s Sundance Film Festival to share what Black genius means to him… and to tease his next project(!).
During a Q&A following a screening of the documentary 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', the producer explained why he and director Questlove decided it wouldn’t be “empathetic” to ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s evolution from musician and DJ to podcaster and award-winning filmmaker has been remarkable. His latest film, “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” explores the l ...
Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey both learned that people in the public eye that they know are actually their distant ...
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the Sundance debut of Ahmir “ Questlove‘ Thompson’s Sly Lives! documentary and an SNL50 celebration weekend that saw the Roots literally centerstage, the Oscar winner and ...
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black ...
Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People” debuts at No. 7 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart, thanks to renewed ...
Yet the film also works as an exhilarating history of Sly and the band’s rise and that musical genius, and the fact that the interviews and much of the analysis was led by Questlove — no small ...
In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become ...
Even Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson struggles with imposter syndrome. The Grammy Award-winning bandleader for The Roots says the feeling was particularly acute in 2021, when his documentary Summer of Soul ...