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, ...

Legendary gospel-soul singer Mavis Staples made her name with her family band, but she’s made some of the best music of her career over the last decade with a surprising series of collaborators.

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 ...

Mavis Staples ‘ latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly ...

Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her blue duster shaking around her tensed, compact body. What she wasn’t ...

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 ...

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Chicago native and gospel/soul great Mavis Staples is joining the Farm Aid concert lineup Saturday as the organization celebrates 30 years of helping family farmers.

Catch up on recent releases from Robyn, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mavis Staples and more. By Lindsay Zoladz A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift ...