*Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame alongside her family members in the legendary soul group Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home, the Sun-Times reported. She was 80. Bill Carpenter, a ...

Though she’s a significant figure in music history and in the history of the civil rights movement, legendary soul singer Mavis Staples is also very much a contemporary artist. Staples will stop in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, ...

Legendary gospel-soul singer Mavis Staples made her name with her family band, but she’s made some of the best music of her career over the last decade with a surprising series of collaborators.

Mavis Staples was singing, “Hallelujah!” over and over. Her lips began to quiver; tears rolled from her eyes. And as her band played “Far Celestial Shore,” Staples took a seat. After assuring ...

The Staples Singers (Pervis is between his two sisters Cleotha and Mavis). Their father, Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, is front-center *Pervis Staples, who along with his father and sisters, comprised the ...

Free Press Summer Fest left behind a mixed bag of memories over its nine years, but at least one is a true gem: a YouTube clip of Mavis Staples singing “The Weight” in June 2013. Even for Houston, the ...

Singer Mavis Staples is best known for her part in The Staple Singers. The group will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 Grammy Awards. We rebroadcast an interview with Staples from ...

STAPLES: Well, you know, the blues - you can sing a blues song and - where you sing, oh, my baby left me. And in the gospel, all you do is take my baby out of there and put Jesus. Jesus, take my hand, ...