"Whether you're listening to Wilco or Dr. Dre, you're listening to Bernie Worrell." Just one of the passionate endorsements made by a legion of celebrity fans - including David Byrne, George Clinton, Mos Def, Bill Laswell, Prince Paul and Doug Wimbish - in this long overdue appreciation of the life and work of a keyboard pioneer. Bernie Worrell's distortion-laden grooves and wavering funk lines pushed the sonic horizon of rock and R&B further and further. Where Worrell led, many others followed. Now, approaching 60, he languishes in poverty and obscurity.

"Since writing a concerto at age eight, Bernie Worrell has been acknowledged as a musical genius. He joined Parliament Funkadelic, where his innovation with keyboards and synthesizers changed music forever. Through his work with P-Funk, Talking Heads, Keith Richards and Mos Def, Worrell almost single-handedly shaped the electronic sound of the last four decades. Stranger beautifully captures the life and sounds of this overlooked mastermind who has been compared to Beethoven, Charlie Parker and Hendrix." - Nashville Film Festival