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Mavis Staples (* 10. Juli 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) ist eine US-amerikanische Blues - und Soul sängerin sowie Grammy -Preisträgerin und Bürgerrechtlerin. Bekannt wurde sie ab 1952 als Mitglied der Familienband The Staple Singers um ihren Vater, den Gospelsänger Pops Staples.
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.
Mavis Staples has continued to carry on the family tradition and continues to add her vocal talents to both the projects of other artists and her own solo ventures. In 2022, she released Carry Me Home , a collaboration with Levon Helm , recorded at Helm's Midnight Ramble in 2011.
Mavis Staples. Von der singenden Familie zur zeitweise einflussreichsten spirituell motivierten Gesangs-Gruppe der USA: Die Staple Singers haben diesen Weg beschritten. Wie kaum eine andere...
22. Jan. 2014 · Mavis, the fourth of five Staples children and now 74, is the book's focal point but, even though she has seen the most success as a solo artist, her personal and professional life has always...
27. Mai 2019 · Als Bürgerrechtsaktivistin und mit ihrer Familienband „Staples Singers“ hat sie US-amerikanische Geschichte mitgeschrieben. Und noch immer ist sie kraftvoll, wie das Album „We get by“ zeigt....
2. Mai 2024 · At age 11, Staples joined the Staple Singers, a family gospel-singing group led by her father, Roebuck (“Pops”) Staples. As a high school graduate in 1957, she had aspirations of becoming a nurse, but her father persuaded her to stay with the group, which recorded several gospel hits by the early 1960s.
