Mavis Staples is an 83-year-old singer, actress, and civil rights activist from the United States.
She became well-known as a member of her family’s band, The Staple Singers. I’ll Take You There and Let’s Do It Again were two of the hit singles she recorded with the band.
Mavis Staples children: Meet Yvonne Staples, Pervis Staples, Cleotha Staples, Mavis Staples
Staples recorded her first solo song Crying in the Chapel in 1967. The track was reissued on the Sony Music collection Lost Soul in 1994. Her debut solo album was a self-titled record for the Stax label in 1969.
She contributed to a Verve album by famed jazz-rock guitarist John Scofield in 2004. On April 24, 2007, Anti-Records released We’ll Never Turn Back. The concept album, created by Ry Cooder, focuses on gospel music from the civil rights era.
For her duet with Bob Dylan on Gonna Change My Way of Thinking, Staples was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals in 2003.
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