Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvonne Staples, a member of her family’s gospel group the Staple Singers, has died, according to multiple reports. The singer died ...

Yvonne Staples, of pioneering gospel, pop and soul group The Staples Singers, died in her Chicago home on Tuesday. She was 80 and had been battling colon cancer. From The New York Times obit: Yvonne ...

Yvonne Staples, singer and manager of the Staple Singers, has passed away at 80. Family friend Bill Carpenter confirmed the news to The New York Times, adding that Staples had suffered from colon ...

Yvonne Staples, who died Tuesday at 80, was the reluctant singer in the Staple Singers. She preferred to play a background role, and sang only when called upon by her father, Roebuck “Pops” Staples.

CHICAGO — Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of her family's Staples Singers gospel group, has died at age 80. Staples died Tuesday at home in Chicago, the Chicago ...

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 ...

Staples, who joined her sisters Mavis and Cleotha on hits like “Respect Yourself,” “I’ll Take You There” and “Heavy Makes You Happy,” died at her home this week, the Chicago-Sun Times reported. She ...

If generosity is putting others before oneself, then Yvonne Staples was the living embodiment of the virtue. Staples, who died Tuesday at 80 of colon cancer, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvonne Staples, background singer and manager of the R&B family group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home. She ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of her family’s Staples Singers gospel group, has died at age 80. The Chicago funeral home Leak and Sons says that ...

*Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame alongside her family members in the legendary soul group Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home, the Sun-Times reported. She was 80. Bill Carpenter, a ...