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 ...

Music has always been the perfect medium over which people expressed their dissatisfaction and protested social injustices. As such it has a tremendous ability to show the world from the perspective ...

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complemented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, has died at his home outside Chicago. Pervis Staples died May 6 at 85, ...

"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 ...

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.

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, ...

Pervis Staples, one of the founding members of the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, has died. He was 85. The singer died on May 6 at his home in Dolton, Illinois, Adam Ayers, a spokesperson ...

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complemented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, died May 6 at his home in Dolton, Ill. He was 85. The death was announced by ...

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Pervis Staples, a member of the iconic gospel, soul and R&B group the Staple Singers, died Wednesday, according to his spokesman. He was 85. Staples died at his home in Dalton, Ill., according to Adam ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice ...