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Mavis Staples. Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band The Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member.
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Jul 27, 2024 · Mavis Staples, American gospel and soul singer who was an integral part of the Staple Singers as well as a successful solo artist. Her live performances were legendary, as captured in the album Hope at the Hideout (2008), and she won a Grammy Award for the album You Are Not Alone (2010).
Sep 7, 2021 · Mavis Staples was a teenager when she began performing with her family, The Staple Singers. The quartet was led by her father, Pops Staples. By the late 1950s, The Staple...
“There’s just an aura,” says Staples. “A good feeling comes over you the moment you walk in. It feels like home.” Staples spent five or six days in Woodstock before her performance, laughing and trading stories and going for walks around the property with Helm.
Jun 25, 2024 · June 25, 2024. On a rainy April day in Chicago, Mavis Staples sat in the restaurant of the towering downtown Chicago building where she’s lived for the past four years. For two hours, she talked...
Mar 19, 2021 · May 24, 2019 • The best new albums out this week include a stirring call for social justice from soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples, rapper YG's remembrance of Nipsey Hussle, lo-fi rock ...
Mavis Staples. Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Buy Tickets. Hailed by NPR as “one of America’s defining voices of freedom and peace,” Staples is the kind of once-in-a-generation artist whose impact on music and culture would be difficult to overstate. “I’M THE MESSENGER,” MAVIS STAPLES SAYS ON THE EVE OF HER 80TH BIRTHDAY.
May 9, 2024 · Mavis Staples—musician, civil rights activist and lifelong resident of the South Side of Chicago—performed at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts on April 3 to a crowd of Chicago Public Schools and UChicago undergraduate students. “We’ve been taking y’all there for over 70 years.
Dec 21, 2012 · Mavis Staples. Gospel, rhythm and blues singer. 2006 NEA National Heritage Fellow. Chicago, Illinois.
