Candi Staton, "It's Time to Be Free" (Beracah Records) Candi Staton blends gospel themes and messages of redemption and caution with dance music, funk and soul on "It's Time to Be Free," revisiting ...

Candi Staton has lived a lot of musical lives. She's been a child gospel singer, a '70s Southern soul hit-maker and then a disco queen. Six decades since she toured the gospel circuit with the Jewell ...

*Sadly we must report that soul/gospel singer Candi Staton has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Staton, 78, received the news on the first day of rehearsals for her summer tour in support of her ...

I listen to hundreds of new albums in a year, and when you do that, it’s really easy to fall into a critical lockstep and to start feeling like you’ve heard everything worthwhile there is to hear. So ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Candi Staton says she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 78-year-old said she received the news over the summer on the first day of rehearsals for her tour. She writes in ...

MEMPHIS - When the Stax Music Academy students take to the stage on December 5, 2009, at Germantown Performing Arts Center in Memphis to salute some of the most popular female singers in American ...

In an upstairs lounge at Hackney Picturehouse, Candi Staton is reflecting on the documentary that has just premiered on screen one. The American singer, a vivacious and very much active octogenarian, ...

The singer recounts the story in 'Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution,' airing this June on PBS Candi Staton is telling the heartbreaking story behind her hit disco classic, "Young Hearts Run Free." In ...

Candi Staton was recently featured in the documentary Muscle Shoals about the legendary FAME Studios. "I look at this album as an anthology of my life," Staton says. "Each song tells a story of some ...