Mavis Staples is a legendary singer who will be one of many taking the stage during Let’s Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute to Prince on April 21. The concert, which was filmed back in January, will honor ...
Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly ...
Jazz singer Mavis Staples, whose father started The Staple Singers, will perform Friday, Dec. 6, at the Arsht Center. Photo courtesy of Mavis Staples' artist management Ask singer Mavis Staples about ...
A lot of artists in the soul/gospel/R&B genre can trace their inspiration back to Mavis Staples, even if it’s a six-degrees-of-separation-type scenario. She’s a legend in the industry and as a civil ...
How you been, Mavis?” Chris Stapleton asks from Tennessee, where he lives. “I’ve been OK,” says Mavis Staples, who’s in Chicago. “My bass player sent me a puzzle of the whole band onstage. 500 pieces!
The folk tradition is defined by the socially conscious nature of the music. In the 60s, pop music drove the culture and music with a message provoked a conversation in an effort to beget change. Punk ...
Talk about a happy warrior. Mavis Staples has been on the front lines of the fight for civil rights since the movement accelerated in the mid-1950s and she’s still ready to rumble. But the gospel and ...