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Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), [1] Pervis (November 18, 1935 – May 6, 2021), [2] [3] and Mavis (b. July 10, 1939).
Begun by Mavis’s guitarist father, Roebuck, in the early 1950s, the Staple Singers included her sisters Cleotha and Yvonne (the latter joined after the group had been performing for a while) and her brother Pervis (who left in the early 1970s).
20 de jul. de 2021 · In 1994, at the 37th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the Staple Singers’ solo album Father Father, featuring Roebuck (Pop) Staples, the patriarch of the family, won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album – or Contemporary Blues Recording.
In 1995, he won the Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy for Father, Father. In 1998, Pops Staples received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States. In 1999, the Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
The Staple Singers fue un grupo estadounidense originarias de la ciudad de Chicago, Illinois. Su estilo musical son el gospel, soul e R&B. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914 - 2000), el jefe de la familia, formó un grupo con sus hijas Cleotha (1934 - 2013), Pervis (1935), Yvonne (1936) y Mavis (1939).
13 de may. de 2021 · Arts May 12, 2021 11:19 PM EDT. CHICAGO — Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complimented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group The Staple Singers, has died, a...
14 de may. de 2021 · Pervis Staples joined two of his sisters, Cleotha and Mavis, and their father, Roebuck Staples, known as Pops, on travels through the gospel circuit in the late 1950s and ’60s. Their sound...
