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Mavis Staples

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 10, 1939

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

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I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

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I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

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I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

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