Mavis Staples
- MatchMavis Staples
- 100%The Staple Singers
- 57%Bettye LaVette
- 42%Mahalia Jackson
- 36%Lee Fields
- 34%Keb' Mo'
- 34%Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- 32%Aretha Franklin
- 32%Blind Boys Of Alabama
- 29%Dr. John
- 29%William Bell
Biography
10 July 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The exceptional lead voice of the Staple Singers began a simultaneous solo career when the group was signed to the Stax Records label in 1968. Here she began recording distinctly secular material including songs by Otis Redding (Good To Me, Security), Sam Cooke (You Send Me) and Joe Simon (The Chokin Kind). The singers gospel fervour enhanced such compositions, although her first R&B hit came... Read more