Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we had the ability to assess who is the most beloved figure in music — not in overall numbers, but sheer adoration, per capita ...

More than 15 years ago, Roebuck "Pops" Staples started recording his final album with his daughters, Mavis, Cleotha and Yvonne of the gospel-R&B family act The Staple Singers. Pops was ailing, but his ...

*The national treasure that is Mavis Staples sat down with us in the summer of 1993 to talk about her new album “The Voice.” Little did we know that in addition to the honor of just being in her ...

Mavis Staples is just a kid, plopped cross-legged on the living room floor. Her father, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, is strumming his old six-string, teaching his youngest daughter and her siblings Yvonne, ...

It's official. Iconic blues, soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples will perform at 5 p.m. Feb. 27 at Syracuse University's Goldstein Auditorium. The concert is sponsored by the Cold Case Justice ...

KENOSHA - By the time Mavis Staples was finishing high school, her family band - the Staple Singers - already had a hit song and her father and siblings were just waiting for the chance to take their ...

Also on the crowded poster for the Blackbird Presents/Live Nation-produced concert were Jeff Tweedy, Nathaniel Rateliff, Norah Jones, Grace Potter, the War and Treaty ...