If you judge people by the company that they keep, Mavis Staples must be one of the most noteworthy members of her generation. Just think about it, the 85-year-old Staples – the sole survivor and ...
The voice of Mavis Staples helped her family's gospel group to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s and '70s. Ms. MAVIS STAPLES (Singer): (Singing) Ain't no smiling faces. Mm-mm. No, no. Lying to ...
Last week's civil rights summit in Texas had a musical through-line: the voice of Mavis Staples. The R&B artist's body of work underscored the... Mavis Staples Sings The Soundtrack Of Civil Rights ...
Mavis Staples, the gospel and R&B legend who was a prominent voice of the civil rights movement, was one of the artists recognized at Tuesday night’s Kennedy Center Honors in a flawless performance by ...
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 ...
Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her blue duster shaking around her tensed, compact body. What she wasn’t ...
*Singer/Civil Rights Activist Mavis Staples, 82, is opening up about her complicated friendship with the late Aretha Franklin! The beloved singer who has an impressive catalog of solo work– in ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Mavis Staples is a Singer with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2010 Rally. The year with the most videos was 2014 with two videos. Former ...