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The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), [1] Pervis (November 18, 1935 – May 6, 2021), [2] [3] and Mavis (b.
Jun 13, 2024 · Begun by Mavis’s guitarist father, Roebuck, in the early 1950s, the Staple Singers included her sisters Cleotha and Yvonne (the latter joined after the group had been performing for a while) and her brother Pervis (who left in the early 1970s).
At 81 years old, Pops Staples garnered a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for his solo album, "Father, Father." In 1999, The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock...
Jan 22, 2014 · Mavis got a whipping that day for singing sinful music, but the same year, 1948, her father, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, sat her and her three older siblings down in their Chicago living room.
In 1995, he won the Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy for Father, Father. In 1998, Pops Staples received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States. In 1999, the Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
Pops showcased his sound on two final solo albums, 1992’s Peace to the Neighborhood and 1994’s GRAMMY-winning Father, Father. Pops Staples died in 2000. He’d seen the world completely transformed from when he left Sunflower County in 1935, a time when he had to bow his head and step off the sidewalk for any white person, even a child.
Jun 19, 2007 · In 1994, “Pops” Staples won a Grammy for his solo effort, Father, Father — a feat that Mavis Staples stands a good chance of repeating this year for her fiery recollection of growing up with...
