Mavis Staples & band

About

Mavis Staples grew up singing gospel with her father, brother and sister as The Staple Singers in churches around Chicago. By her mid teens she already had a record deal, and the hits she recorded on legendary labels like Stax, Atlantic and Epic gave us songs that lodged permanently in the popular music canon, including I'll Take You There and Let's Do It Again. She launched her solo career in 1969 and never really looked back. Over the decades she has worked with Aretha Franklin, Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Curtis Mayfield, Ry Cooder and Prince, who signed her to his Paisley Park Records and wrote songs for two of her albums. A young Bob Dylan was so smitten after hearing Uncloudy Day that he apparently proposed to her. The recognition has followed: five Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.