Mavis staples

Bob Dylan proposed marriage to her, but she turned him down. Because Mavis Staples was focused on her music. As lead singer for the the Staples Singers, Mavis was the dynamic lead to a Gospel turned secular family group labeled "God's Greatest Hitmakers." Led by Staples patriarch and guitarist Pops Staples, Mavis was the family cook. As in burn, burn, burn.

“I don’t want to be gloatin’, you know, but anytime I watch it, it’s refreshing.”

After more than seven decades onstage, the gospel and soul great decided last year that it was time to retire. Then she realized she still had work to do.

“Mama Mavis, oh my mama they try my patience. It’s gone, who’s left to save us? I’m praying for my neighbors,” raps Pusha T on a recent Gorillaz single titled “Let Me Out.” In response, gospel singer Mavis Staples wearily advises on the chorus, “You got to die a little if you want to live.”

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Mavis Staples of the Staple singers and the women Bob Dylan asked to marry him.

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HUDSON >> Mavis Staples, a scion of America’s first family of socially conscious soul-gospel music and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, brings her contemporary sound, crafted…

Mavis Staples teams up with fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy for the traditional song.

At 77, the gospel and soul icon whose family provided the soundtrack of the civil rights era is always honing her art.