Omnivore Recordings has announced a new live record from The Staple Singers, Africa 80, which features performances from their first ever tour in Africa. The album will be released on CD and Digital ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of the Staple Singers, has died at age 80. The Chicago funeral home Leak and Sons says she died Tuesday at her home ...

“My father, Pops Staples, started the group back in 1949 when he became frustrated with his present band members for showing up to rehearsal late (or not at all). He sat me and my siblings, Pervis, ...

Intro by Pops Staples; When The Saints Go Marching In; The Funeral; Build On That Shore; We Shall Overcome; Freedom Highway; What You Gonna Do?; Precious Lord, Take My Hand (unreleased); When I'm Gone ...

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, ...

On Wednesday night, Mavis Staples and Joan Osborne delivered a serious dose of “Solid Soul” to the 92nd Street Y. Osborne, a professed Staples devotee who described the elder singer as one of her ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, the Stax label dominated soul, R&B, gospel, and related genres with a stable of artists who have since become iconic figures in the history ...

Legendary R&B, soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples is ready to rock Hancher Auditorium on Dec. 2, 2023. Her records, both with the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, have provided a soulful ...

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 ...

Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of the Staple Singers, her family’s hit-making gospel group that topped the charts in the early 1970s with the song “I’ll Take You ...