BOSTON — She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life. Decades later, she was running a clothing ...
Mavis Staples’ walls don’t have to talk. The photos and mementos that line her tidy apartment on Chicago’s South Shore are one long tribute to the varied career of one of the world’s mightiest gospel ...
Two new albums of previously unreleased material by the Staple Singers create emotional bookends for the work of one of gospel’s most influential and successful crossover family groups. Recorded ...
Roebuck “Pops” Staples, who led his family vocal group, the Staple Singers, from gospel music into the forefront of socially conscious rhythm & blues and to the top of the pop music charts, died ...
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, ...
Roebuck "Pop" Staples, 84, the founder and patriarch of the family gospel and blues group known as the Staple Singers, died Dec. 19 at a hospital near his home in Dolton, Ill. He had suffered a ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gospel singer Cleotha Staples will be remembered Friday at a funeral service in Chicago. The eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group The Staple Singers died last Thursday ...
Johnson Chapel Holiness Church assistant pastor Rev. Letha Morgan, aunt to the members of the Staple Jr. Singers, recalls their playing every Sunday at the Aberdeen, Miss., church, last month. Edward ...
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