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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mavis_StaplesMavis Staples - Wikipedia

    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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    Mavis Staples. Tour News Music Videos About Store. TourNewsMusicVideosAboutStore. Scroll. TOUR DATES. Mavis Staples Image. Tour. Header Photo by Laura Carbone. Hours.

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Mavis-StaplesMavis Staples | Biography, Songs, & Facts | Britannica

    Jul 6, 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).

  4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2022/07/04The Gospel According to Mavis Staples | The New Yorker

    Jun 27, 2022 · Mavis Staples has been a gospel singer longer than Elizabeth II has worn the crown. During concerts, sometimes, she might take a seat and rest while someone in her band bangs out a solo for a...

  5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/06/25 › artsMavis Staples Is an American Institution. She’s Not Done Singing...

    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...

  6. www.npr.org › 2021/09/06 › 1033695866'Summer Of Soul': Singer Mavis Staples : NPR

    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...

  7. www.npr.org › 2016/12/10 › 505021392For Mavis Staples, The Music Of The Civil Rights Era Couldn't Be...

    Dec 10, 2016 · Mavis Staples joined NPR's Michel Martin to talk about developing an iconic voice at a young age, dealing with racism on the road and why she's a big fan of...

  8. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskMavis Staples Remembers Singing “The Weight” - The New Yorker

    Jun 17, 2014 · And so, not long after the show, the Staples Singers, a popular gospel group and old friends of the Band, performed “The Weight” on an M.G.M. soundstage in front of an audience of two hundred ...

  9. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskMavis Staples on Prince, Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Her...

    Sep 11, 2017 · Elon Green speaks with the singer and civil-rights activist Mavis Staples about music, politics, and her forthcoming album, “If All I Was Was Black.”

  10. www.npr.org › artists › 15395355Mavis Staples : NPR

    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 ...