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Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American soul and gospel singer. Staples began singing with her father (Roebuck "Pops" Staples), a sister (Cleotha), and her brother (Pervis) at local churches. In 1969 Pervis would leave the group and Yvonne would join the group. They could be heard weekly in a radio program such as The Staple Singers. In 1956 they scored a hit with Uncloudy Day. This song was produced by the VeeJay label. When Staples finished high school in 1957, the family went on tour. Pops Staples saw Reverend Martin Luther King preaching in church in 1963 and said to his children: "Listen you all, I really like this man's message. And I think if he can preach that, we can sing it." ("Listen, I love that man's message. And if he can preach it, we can sing it.") The group started writing protest songs and was nicknamed: God's Greatest Hitmakers. They became the most spectacular and influential gospel group for freedom movement of the time. In 1969 the album Mavis Staples was released by Staples. Volt, (a subsidiary of Stax Records) had produced the album. Her second album, Only For the Lonely, was released in 1970 on Stax Records. She then made a soundtrack album for the Curtom label (Curtis Mayfield's music company) under the title A Piece of the Action. Her fourth solo album Oh What A Feeling was a flop in the year 1979. It was in the middle of the disco period. The Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. label gave Staples the opportunity to record the album at the Muscle Shoals Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. Afterwards she said in an interview that it had to be a beautiful record, but that she didn't know what was wrong with her to record the record and that she thought it was one of the worst experiments. The single "Tonight I Feel Like Dancing" entered the U.S. R&B Top 100 singles chart, no higher than #91 in July 1979. She knew she hadn't made a good album and retired to be with her family. In 1984 she made an album with her own name as the title. This time produced by the famous trio Holland-Dozier-Holland. Eddie and Brian Holland had worked at Motown, Steve Cropper at Stax Records. It was released by the trio through their own HDH label. Unfortunately, this album was also a flop. In the eighties, Staples had financial problems because she had no more albums. Prince - a great admirer of Staples - offered her a seven-year contract with Paisley Park Records. She made two albums with the label: Time Waits for No One (1989) and The Voice (1993). Prince wrote songs for the albums without sexual lyrics. Still, both albums didn't sell, although the press releases weren't negative about either album. Some songs were therefore on albums to which different artists had contributed. Staples had great admiration for Mahalia Jackson and in 1996 she recorded the album Spirituals & Gospel.
