Mavis Staples Creates A Soul Canon All Her Own

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel ...
Washington Examiner

Cleotha Staples of Staple Singers siblings dies

CHICAGO (AP) — In a family of vocalists, it was Cleotha Staples’ smooth and velvety voice that helped set apart the sound of the influential and best-selling gospel group The Staple Singers. Staples, ...
Sioux City Journal

Mavis Staples is a civil rights icon, a Kennedy Center honoree and, now, a Saturday in the Park performer

If you judge people by the company that they keep, Mavis Staples must be one of the most noteworthy members of her generation. Just think about it, the 85-year-old Staples – the sole survivor and ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Pops’ Staples; leader of the chart-topping Staple Singers

Roebuck “Pops” Staples, who led his family vocal group, the Staple Singers, from gospel music into the forefront of socially conscious rhythm & blues and to the top of the pop music charts, died ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Mavis Staples, legendary singer and activist, returns to UChicago to inspire next generation

In 1962, Mavis Staples and her family took the stage at Mandel Hall for the University of Chicago Folk Festival. In between bluegrass bands and bluesmen, the gospel group shook the crowd with their ...
Newsday

Gospel group, basking in resurgence, releases first new music in nearly 50 years

BOSTON — She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life. Decades later, she was running a clothing ...
WTEN

Gospel group, basking in resurgence, releases first new music in nearly 50 years

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON (AP) — She made a single gospel soul ...