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’ 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, ...

There is nothing outwardly professorial in appearance or demeanor about Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples, whose joint 2022 tour concluded Tuesday night in San Diego with a sold-out concert at The Rady ...

Two-time GRAMMY award-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show released “One Drop” featuring Mavis Staples ahead of their new album Jubilee, out this Friday, August 25 via ATO Records. “One Drop” is a ...

Gospel and soul music legend Mavis Staples will return to Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom for a special concert to benefit The Bob Dylan Center’s education programs. The concert will be Saturday, May 25, with ...

A legendary performer who will turn 85 next month on July 10, Mavis Staples continues to be a tour-de-force in music and a voice for the voiceless in today’s divided society. Well known for her work ...

Gospel / soul legend Mavis Staples, whose 2004 Alligator Records CD Have a Little Faith has been hailed by critics and fans alike as the best of her career, will bring her deeply soulful and ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...