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  1. Jun 25, 2024 · Soon after Dylan’s proposal, Staples instead married a Chicago mortician; it was a quarrelsome relationship that ended when she changed their apartment locks. “I married an undertaker, and...

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  3. Staples was briefly married to Spencer Leak in 1964; they divorced when Staples would not end her music career to stay home. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] She has no children. [ 30 ] In the 2015 documentary Mavis! she reveals that Bob Dylan once proposed to her, and she turned him down.

  4. Jan 21, 2012 · Bob Dylan was so impressed by the voice of Mavis Staples that he once asked her to marry him. It was back in the early days of folk music, even before Dylan’s classic Blowin’ In The Wind ...

  5. Jun 27, 2022 · Staples did marry once, and miserably. In 1964, she met a Chicago mortician named Spencer Leak. The Leak family was prominent on the South Side, and their wedding was a major social event.

  6. Nov 30, 2016 · At 77, the gospel and soul icon whose family provided the soundtrack of the civil rights era is always honing her art.

  7. Jan 22, 2014 · I had the same reaction when Mavis married the previously unmentioned Chicago mortician Spencer Leak in 1964. (In fact, not much is said about Leak until the divorce eight years later.)...

  8. Sep 22, 2010 · In the time since, Staples' 71-year-old voice has lost some of its suppleness and developed scratches and cracks, yet she continues to sing. And, with the right song and setting, she remains a ...

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