Sundance: Questlove On ‘Sly Lives!’ Secret Heart, His Park City Return, ‘SNL’ Music Film, New Roots Album & Self-Sabotage

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The first time Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson had a film at the Sundance Film Festival, The Roots co-founder never got to share it with a live audience due to the Covid lockdown that saw the 2021 gathering go virtual only.

Tonight, with the 9:30 p.m. MT premiere of Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) at Park City’s sure to be sold out Eccles Theatre, it’s going to be a whole new Sundance for the Summer of Soul director and Academy Award winner.

And not just because Queatlove is widely expected to put his headphones on and spin some tracks for a dancing crowd this weekend in the Utah resort town.

It’s a whole new Sundance, because, turns out the trailblazing life, music and legacy of the now 81-year-old Sly Stone has permeated across many aspects and avenues of multitasker Questlove‘s own life and work. “Even now, as Tariq and I are towards the end of creating this new Roots album, ‘The End Game,’ the osmosis effect has started now,” the band leader admits of of the upcoming release of a new album with long time collaborator Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter.