Gospel pioneers The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. Over their long, acclaimed history, they have become known as much for their secular music as they have been for their gospel. Truth …
Watch Rhiannon Giddens perform “Freedom Highway”
The title song to The Staple Singers’ 1965 album Freedom Highway was written by Roebuck “Pops” Staples, the patriarch and leader of the first family of gospel that included Pops and his daughters Cleotha, Purvis, Yvonne and Mavis. Pops learned …
The McCrary Sisters: Gospel’s go-to backup singers
The McCrary Sisters are a gospel music quartet from Nashville, Tennessee. Formed in 2010 by sisters Beverly Ann McCrary, Deborah Dianne McCrary, Regina Avonette McCrary, and Alfreda Antionette McCrary, their father – Reverend Samuel H. “Sam” McCrary – was a …