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Mavis Staples’ walls don’t have to talk. The photos and mementos that line her tidy apartment on Chicago’s South Shore are one long tribute to the varied career of one of the world’s mightiest gospel ...

Johnson Chapel Holiness Church assistant pastor Rev. Letha Morgan, aunt to the members of the Staple Jr. Singers, recalls their playing every Sunday at the Aberdeen, Miss., church, last month. Edward ...

Two new albums of previously unreleased material by the Staple Singers create emotional bookends for the work of one of gospel’s most influential and successful crossover family groups. Recorded ...

CHICAGO (AP) — In a family of vocalists, it was Cleotha Staples’ smooth and velvety voice that helped set apart the sound of the influential and best-selling gospel group The Staple Singers. Staples, ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Gospel singer Cleotha Staples will be remembered Friday at a funeral service in Chicago. The eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group The Staple Singers died last Thursday ...

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