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 ...

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, ...

The Staples Singers (Pervis is between his two sisters Cleotha and Mavis). Their father, Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, is front-center *Pervis Staples, who along with his father and sisters, comprised the ...

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, ...

In the decade since gospel/soul patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples died, his daughter Mavis has had her ups and downs over the loss of her beloved father. Mavis Staples quit performing and recording for ...

CHICAGO -- One of the greatest soul singers of the last half-century is named "Bubbles." It says so in Mavis Staples' living room, where a certificate hangs honoring "Bubbles" for co-producing the ...

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 ...