Our first interviewee is Candi Staton, the 81-year-old singer whose career stretches back to 1953, when she began recording gospel songs in a vocal trio as a teenager. She switched to secular music in the 1960s, and her soul recordings are some of the most powerful and emotionally complex of the era.
Also Who was Clarence Carter married to? Carter embarked on a national tour with a full band and back-up singers, one of whom, Alabamian Candi Staton, Carter married in 1970.
Likewise When did Candi Staton get the love? “You Got the Love” is a 1986 single by British songwriting team The Source featuring American singer-songwriter Candi Staton. The song was remixed and re-released in 1991, 1997, and 2006. It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the UK Dance Singles Chart.
How did Clarence Carter go blind? ED WARD, BYLINE: Clarence Carter was born in Montgomery, Ala., in 1936 and was blind from birth. … In college, he hooked up with another blind student Calvin Scott, who played organ, and as Clarence & Calvin made a couple of records for a small Atlanta label.
When did Clarence Carter record Strokin?
With the advent of disco in the mid 1970s, Carter’s career suffered. After the birth of another son, Herbert Deon Wilkerson in 1981, he signed for Ichiban Records in 1985 and found a new audience with songs such as “Strokin'” and “Dr. C.C.” in the 1980s and 1990s.
When was Candi born? Canzetta Maria Staton was born on March 13, 1940, in Hanceville, Alabama. Her father worked as a farmer and a coal miner and her mother was a homemaker. At age eight, Staton was already singing in a gospel group, the Four Golden Echoes, with her older sister Maggie Staton, Leatha Mae Malcolm, and Betty Jean Byers.
Where did Clarence Carter record Strokin? Carter recorded this at Broadway Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama, which is where Percy Sledge recorded “When A Man Loves A Woman.” Carter played all the instruments on the track.
How does Candi Staton pronounce her name? It is, it turns out, almost as widely mispronounced as David Bowie’s. “Well,” she confirms once and for all, “my mom and dad, we were Stay-tons. Daddy was Ersey Staton, mom was Rosie Staton, and we said it ‘Stay-ton’!”
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