American R&B singer Mavis Staples toured with her family in the 1940s, achieving immense popularity with message-oriented songs such as "Long Walk to D.C." Close friendships with Mahalia Jackson and Martin Luther King raised the group's profile, and she frequently paid tribute to them onstage.
Her singles reached the top forty several times, and her two number ones were entitled "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again." A recent performance in the Kennedy Center was performed in tribute to Paul McCartney, and she will include tour events in the eastern U.S. and Canada in 2011 and 2012.
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