THE STAPLE Singers did their finest work in the early 1970s. It was a golden age for radically minded soul music, with a great deal to be passionate about. If the intervening years had gone as they ...

Yvonne Staples, of the legendary gospel/R&B outfit The Staple Singers, died Tuesday at her home in Chicago, according to multiple reports, just two weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer. She ...

"He was one of the good guys and will live on as a true Chicago legend," his sister, Mavis Staples, said in a statement Pervis Staples, one of the founding members of the legendary gospel group the ...

Yvonne Staples, background singer and manager of the R&B family group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home. She was 80. Bill Carpenter, a family friend, confirmed Staples’s death to ...

Pervis Staples, a founding member of the legendary gospel and soul group the Staple Singers, has died. A representative for his sister and former bandmate Mavis Staples confirmed to Rolling Stone that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame as one of the voices of powerhouse soul trio the Staple Singers, has died, the Chicago Sun-Times ...

The uncomfortable truth about gospel is that it's not that far from being sex music. Gospel is a genre that prizes love and sweat and passion, one built on voices raised in ecstasy. You don't have to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame as one of the voices of powerhouse soul trio the Staple Singers, has died, the Chicago Sun-Times ...

The Staple Singers co-founder Pervis Staples has died at 85. Rolling Stone reports: Pervis Staples, a co-founding member of the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, died May 6th at his home in ...

Pervis Staples—co-founding member of the legendary Staple Singers—has died, as Rolling Stone reports. Staples’ death was confirmed to RS by Adam Ayers—a member of Mavis Staples’ management team.

Take, for example, this unique arrangement of Buffalo Springfield’s iconic “For What It’s Worth,” which the Staples released as a single the previous year as they looked to widen to a more mainstream, ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complimented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group The Staple Singers, has died, a spokesman announced Wednesday. He was 85. Pervis ...