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Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s", [1] he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer.
Roebuck "Pops" Staples was born December 25, 1914, in Winona, Mississippi. Growing up on the same plantation as bluesman Charley Patton, Staples drew from both the gospel and blues traditions to forge a sound that transcends their stylistic divide.
Pops Staples. I n 1999, Roebuck “Pops” Staples recorded a final session, capping an illustrious career as leader and patriarch of the Staple Singers. Unfinished at the time of his passing in 2000, the tapes went to his daughter, Mavis, who then waited for the right opportunity to finish the recording in the spirit Pops intended.
The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), [1] Pervis (November 18, 1935 – May 6, 2021), [2][3] and Mavis (b. July 10, 1939).
Roebuck (Pops) Staples, whose family gospel group, the Staple Singers, carried message songs to a huge pop audience, died on Tuesday at his home in Dolton, Ill., a Chicago suburb. He was 85. The...
Roebuck “Pops” Staples, one of the foremost figures in American gospel music as a singer, guitarist, and patriarch of the Staple Singers family group, was a blues performer in his younger days, and his blues-drenched guitar work was a constant trademark of the Staple Singers’ gospel sound.
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Dec 19, 2000 · 1998. Loading... See More Images. Roebuck "Pops" Staples was born in Winona, Mississippi, and grew up on the Dockery plantation, also the home of bluesman Charley Patton. Staples drew from both the gospel and blues traditions to forge a sound that transcends their stylistic divide.
