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Hace 2 días · The matinee event included a performance by Staples, a conversation between the singer and Greg Kot, author of I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the Music That Shaped the Civil Rights Era; and tributes by UChicago historian Adam Green, and Chicago poet laureate avery r. young.. Staples was also honored with the Rosenberger Distinguished Visiting Artist Award, given by ...
Hace 2 días · Pop Staples’s (1914-2000) vocal is peacefully flexible with faithful projection — a wonderous warmth through the expertise of the respected showboating between his children’s harmonies & unified voices on Curtis Mayfield’s “Let’s Do It Again” & Mavis’ supernatural coda “Touch a Hand, Make a Friend.”
Hace 4 días · The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B group formed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1940s. The group originally consisted of patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his children ...
Hace 2 días · Mavis Staples is among the great powerhouse female vocalists of R&B and gospel, up there with Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Odetta, and Bettye LaVette. She's literally a living legend, the last surviving member of the groundbreaking family band The Staple Singers, a three-time Grammy Award winner who during her long and illustrious career collaborated ...
Hace 1 día · Mavis Staples' iconic voice is part of American history; Latest from NPR Music. Watch Live: The 2024 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert 'Hello there, I'm Hazel Scott': Jazz's unsung artist-activist;
Hace 6 días · Aretha Louise Franklin (/ ə ˈ r iː θ ə / ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", Rolling Stone twice named her as the greatest singer of all time.As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister.
Hace 3 días · From their gospel beginnings to the height of their stardom, the Staple Singers traveled a long and artistically rich road into the mainstream of American music ̶ not only becoming some of the most important voices in soul music, but also in the Civil Rights movement.
