soul music
These are the graves of the Staple Singers. Roebuck "Pops" Staples was born in Winona, Mississippi in 1914. He grew up with the blues, but switched to gospel in the.
In the 1970s, James Brown and Porter Wagoner became friends. Wagoner was of course a major player in country music and so he managed to schedule the Godfather of Soul.
Dead at 76.
Dead at the age of 74.