First as gospel singers and then as a soul-pop group, the Staples
family has maintained a strong following and had several pop and
soul hits, usually fronted by Mavis Staples' breathy vocals. The
Staples family goes back to Mississippi, where as a young man
Roebuck Staples played guitar and sang in local choirs. In the
mid-'30s, he and his wife, Oceola, traveled up the Mississippi
River to Chicago...