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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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6 days ago · 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).
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...
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...
Jun 27, 2022 · A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy. By David Remnick. June 27, 2022. At eighty-two, Staples asked God why she was still alive. “The only reason I could see is to sing my...
“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.
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.
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 ...
Jun 17, 2014 · Mavis Staples Remembers Singing “The Weight”. The Band held its last concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson performed at...
