For the little girl with the big voice from the South Side of Chicago, it’s been an unforgettable journey. Mavis Staples has been singing since the 1940s. She was nominated for her first Grammy in ...

Singer Mavis Staples is 76 years old, but still remembers vividly the first time she ever performed with her family in public. "I was 8," she says from Los Angeles. "We went and sang at my Aunt ...

Neko Case and Mavis Staples both have glorious voices that can stop you in your tracks, and when they’ve got you in their grip, they both make sure to impart serious ideas about what it means to be ...

We Get By, Mavis Staples’ 12th studio album, out today, opens with a mission statement: “Gotta change around here.” Since she first began singing with her family — her father, Pops, and siblings ...

Soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples plays our game called "Hello, I'm looking for a dozen highlighter pens in a fluorescent green." Originally broadcast Dec. 20, 2008. BILL KURTIS, BYLINE: From NPR ...

Jay Leno shared that his wife, Mavis, who is battling advanced dementia, has "still got the fire" that defined her long before her diagnosis. The 75-year-old former late-night host has been married to ...

Just a few months ago, Mavis Staples‘ manager called her with some unexpected news: Bob Dylan wanted her serve as the opening act on his summer tour. “I was very surprised,” says Staples. “And it was ...

Mavis Staples is sitting in the lounge of her tour bus outside the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, telling a story about her current tourmate, Bob Dylan. The other day, Dylan asked Staples to rehearse ...

In December, soul singer Mavis Staples received a Kennedy Center Honor and earlier in 2016 she released a new album called Livin' on a High Note. But today, we're digging into the past to talk about ...

In the early 1960s, the famed Chicago-based gospel outfit the Staples Singers were on tour when they went to see Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. preach. Afterward, back at their hotel, guitarist and ...