Artist
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is a musical artist from Chicago, illinois, USA formed in 1940. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Chicago, illinois, USA
- 26
- Releases
- 1970–2025
- Active years
- 1940
- Formed
Artist
Mavis Staples is a musical artist from Chicago, illinois, USA formed in 1940. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Chicago, illinois, USA
Most popular
Live in London
2019
We'll Never Turn Back
2007
One True Vine
2013
You Are Not Alone
2010
Only for the Lonely
1970
Have a Little Faith
2009
Sad And Beautiful World
2025
Carry Me Home
2022
We Get By
2019
If All I Was Was Black
2017
Mavis Staples
2017
Livin' On A High Note
2016
Live: Hope At The Hideout
2008
Spirituals & Gospel
1996
The Voice
1993
Time Waits For No One
1989
Oh What a Feeling (2013 Remaster)
1979
Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band. Mavis Staples began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Purvis, the Staples were called "God's Greatest Hitmakers." With Mavis' voice and Pops' songs, singing, and guitar playing, the Staples evolved from enormously popular gospel singers (with recordings on United and Riverside as well as Vee-Jay) to become the most spectacular and influential spirituality-based group in America. By the mid-1960s The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops' close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits wit…
