Alongside the late Aretha Franklin, 86-year-old Mavis Staples has been one of the great gospel-inspired soul singers of our ...

The latest solo album from the 86-year-old legend is collection of 10 songs that pulls from 70 years of a great musical ...

Concert of Colors is headed back to some familiar turf. The 2025 edition of the annual multicultural music festival will include a night at the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on Detroit's riverfront, ...

Mavis Staples's new album hums with a hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old’s raspy contralto. It is titled “Sad and Beautiful World.” ...

There are vocalists, there are singers and then there are voices — the first aims for the ear, the second for the brain, the third for the heart. A voice turns a composition into an emotional ...

If you judge people by the company that they keep, Mavis Staples must be one of the most noteworthy members of her generation. Just think about it, the 85-year-old Staples – the sole survivor and ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, roots music luminary, world-class entertainer, and singular lead ...

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 ...

Now, with Have a Little Faith, Mavis Staples builds on a family tradition of joining gospel fervor with shades of soul and R&B. Her importance in both the music world and as a driving force of social ...

Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images This week, the legendary singer and civil rights figure Mavis Staples is turning 85 and there's no sign of her slowing down: She released a new song, "Worthy," and a ...

Legendary R&B, soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples is ready to rock Hancher Auditorium on Dec. 2, 2023. Her records, both with the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, have provided a soulful ...

The voice of Mavis Staples helped her family's gospel group to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s and '70s. Ms. MAVIS STAPLES (Singer): (Singing) Ain't no smiling faces. Mm-mm. No, no. Lying to ...