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The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

Legendary singer Mavis Staples decided to retire in 2023. Then she changed her mind. “She's driven to spread the message,” ...

“I have a mind to bury them whole,” Mavis Staples sings on her forthcoming album, “If All I Was Was Black” (Anti). It is not a very Mavis-like thing to hear the perpetually upbeat gospel ...

Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples perform onstage during the Mavis Staples’ 85th: All-Star Birthday Celebration at YouTube Theater on April 18, 2024 in Inglewood, California. Taylor Hill/Getty ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mavis Staples is a walking, talking and — blessedly — still singing history book. The 76-year-old voice of the Staple Singers sang behind Martin Luther King Jr., dated Bob ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Mavis Staples performs at the Beacon Theatre in 2023 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Share For eight decades, Mavis Staples has been taking us ...

Mavis Staples has been a gospel singer longer than Elizabeth II has worn the crown. During concerts, sometimes, she might take a seat and rest while someone in her band bangs out a solo for a ...

By Grayson Haver Currin Reporting from Chicago and Los Angeles On a rainy April day in Chicago, Mavis Staples sat in the restaurant of the towering downtown Chicago building where she’s lived ...

Before Bob Dylan moved to New York to pursue music, he fell in love with Mavis Staples’ voice. By the early 1960s, he was a rising star in the Greenwich Village folk scene, and he believed that ...

An assemblage of musical greats in their own right gathered at the YouTube Theater in the greater L.A. area Thursday night for “Mavis Staples 85th: All-Star Birthday Concert,” a three-and-a ...