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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 4 días · In a decades-long career that merged gospel, blues and rock, this unstoppable singer has won three Grammys and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. At age 84, she’s singing old hits like “I’ll Take You There,” new songs from her album We Get By and everything in between. Mavis Staples. Fri, 8pm, $85.
Hace 2 días · The group was signed to Alligator Records — a Chicago-based blues label whose roster at one time or another has included Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Hound Dog Taylor, Lonnie Mack ...
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 4 días · Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s", he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha.
Hace 2 días · Too young to sort through this emotional wreckage, he steered away. “Disappearing became my MO,” he writes. “Distancing myself from whatever it was that might require accountability.” He dropped out of high school and joined a series of colorful-sounding bands — the Majestics, the Sheratons, the Delrays, the Guild, the Blue.
Hace 5 días · In occasione dello scorso Record Store Day, tra le tante pubblicazioni immesse sul mercato del vinile, Alligator ha voluto celebrare il ventennale di “Have A Little Faith” di Mavis Staples con una edizione in doppio Lp e nuove note di copertina col contributo della stessa Mavis. Un momento per riascoltare un disco che occupa un posto di primo piano nella sua discografia, forse anche al di ...
