Cynthia Robinson

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Cynthia Robinson on The Ed Sullivan Show performing "Dance to the Music", December 28, 1968.
Cynthia Robinson on The Ed Sullivan Show performing "Dance to the Music", December 28, 1968.

Cynthia Robinson (born January 12, 1946 in Sacramento, California) is an African-American musician, best known for being the trumpetist in the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. Robinson is notable for being an early black trumpet player in a major American band, and also for being the only member of the original Family Stone to continue working with Sly Stone after the band fell apart in 1975.

She is the mother of Sly Stone's second child, a daughter named Sylvette Phunne Robinson.

In 2006, she reunited with The Original Family Stone.


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