Mavis Staples's new album hums with a hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old’s raspy contralto. It is titled ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel ...

Apart from hip-hop and the occasional rock or country song, these times of protest and divisiveness lack the musical voices ...

Soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples turned 86 years old this year, but she hasn’t slowed down—she’s even releasing a new ...

Now 86, she should be taking it easy, assured her wars have been won. Yet, here we are in 2025, and the last member standing ...

At 86, Mavis Staples is still a force of nature. Her new album Sad And Beautiful World arrives 7 November, featuring Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt and Jeff Tweedy — a powerful testament to her seven-decade ...

There are vocalists, there are singers and then there are voices — the first aims for the ear, the second for the brain, the third for the heart. A voice turns a composition into an emotional ...

Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy ...