Pops Staples, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

Pops Staples

American musician (1914–2000)

Roebuck "Pops" Staples was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s", he was a songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis,…