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C๏sʍ๏tune ★ 5 - @manucho_arevalo
Pops Staples - Somebody Was Watching (Manucho Edit)
Release date: July 29 | 2019
Label: @cosmovisionrecords
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About @manucho_arevalo
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Manucho is a natural storyteller. Chef by day and Dj by night, he combines the elements to take his guests on a delightful journey full of emotions. As a lover of improvisation and spontaneity, Manucho is not restricted to any style. When the time comes, he gets carried away by his instinct and feeling with his audience.
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About Pops Staples
Roebuck "Pops" Staples was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s, he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha. Pops was born near Winona, Mississippi, the youngest of 14 children. He grew up on a cotton plantation near Drew, Mississippi. From his earliest years he heard, and began to play with, local blues guitarists such as Charlie Patton Robert Johnson, and Son House. He dropped out of school after the eighth grade, then sang with a gospel group before marrying and moving to Chicago in 1935. In 1948, Robs and his wife Oceola Staples formed The Staple Singers to sing as a gospel group in local churches, with their children. The Staple Singers first recorded in the early 1950s for United and then the larger Vee-Jay Records, with songs including 1955's "This May Be the Last Time" . In the 1960s the Staple Singers moved to Riverside Records, Epic Records, and later Stax Records and began recording protest, inspirational and contemporary music, reflecting the civil rights and anti-war movements of the time.
A further move in the late 60s, the family extending their range still further with aspirational soul material such as Respect Yourself, which won them a gold disc; the hypnotic chant I'll Take You There; and the million-selling If You're Ready (Come Go With Me). Staples also recorded an instrumental blues album, Jammed Together, with fellow guitarists Albert King and Steve Cropper. There were those who regarded these progressive accommodations to the secular music market as betrayals of the traditions the family were supposed to represent. To such accusations Staples succinctly replied, "Ain't nobody want to go to heaven more than me, but we got to live down here too."
The Staples Singers worked less after Mavis left to pursue a solo career, but in the 90s "Pops" Staples, as he now billed himself, enjoyed a spell of international success away from the family setting, appearing at blues festivals - though steadfastly refusing to sing the blues - and recording the well-received albums Peace to the Neighborhood and Father Father in collaboration with admirers such as Ry Cooder and Bonnie Raitt.
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- Blues