(1-50 of 50 song lyrics)Average rating for Mavis Staples songs is 7.70/10 [536 votes]. Selected popular Mavis Staples song of Thursday, October 31 2024 is "20th Century Express".
Top Mavis Staples Albums
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Worthy - Single [2024]
We Get By [2019]
Live in London [2019]
If All I Was Was Black [2017]
Livin' on a High Note [2016]
Your Good Fortune - EP [2015]
One True Vine [2013]
You Are Not Alone [2010]
Live: Hope at the Hideout [2008]
Mavis Staples Live: Hope At the Hideout [2008]
We'll Never Turn Back [2007]
Have a Little Faith [2004]
Spirituals & Gospel: Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson [1996]
Mavis Staples (born July 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rhythm and blues singer.Most of her career has been as lead singer for The Staple Singers. She first recorded solo for the Stax subsidiary Volt in 1969. Subsequent efforts included a Curtis Mayfield-produced soundtrack on Curtom, a nod to disco for Warner Bros. Records in 1979, a stab at electro-pop with Holland-Dozier-Holland in 1984, and a collaboration with Prince in the late 1980s and early 90s (producing the two solo albums Time Waits for No One in 1989 and The Voice in 1993, and various other collaborations). Staples has a rich contralto voice that has neither the range of Aretha Franklin nor the power of Patti LaBelle. Her otherworldly power comes instead f... read more