Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame as one of the voices of powerhouse soul trio the Staple Singers, has died, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. She was 80. Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame as one of the ...

Yvonne Staples, background singer and manager of the R&B family group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home. She was 80. Bill Carpenter, a family friend, confirmed Staples’s death to ...

Pervis Staples, a founding member of the legendary gospel and soul group the Staple Singers, has died. A representative for his sister and former bandmate Mavis Staples confirmed to Rolling Stone that ...

"He was one of the good guys and will live on as a true Chicago legend," his sister, Mavis Staples, said in a statement Pervis Staples, one of the founding members of the legendary gospel group the ...

The Staple Singers co-founder Pervis Staples has died at 85. Rolling Stone reports: Pervis Staples, a co-founding member of the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, died May 6th at his home in ...

CHICAGO – Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of the Staple Singers, her family’s hit-making gospel group that topped the charts in the early 1970s with the song “I’ll ...

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