State's Grammy winners honored | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "[Mavis] Staples' thoughts centered on her dad, Pops Staples, who taught his four children to sing harmony sitting on the floor of their home in the Delta town of Drew while playing a guitar he bought at a pawn shop. Pops Staples died in 2000 at the age of 85, one year after The Staples Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and too late to see himself and his children earn the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2005.
'He's the reason I keep moving, keep pushing,' the 68-year-old Staples said before opening Mississippi - The Birthplace of America's Music Celebrates Its Grammy Legacy, a gala at Jackson's Marriott Downtown on Thursday. 'Pops started it for me. And I'm sure he's smiling tonight.'"
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