Candi Staton
Candi Staton was born in Hanceville, Alabama, United States on March 13th, 1940 and is the Gospel Singer. At the age of 84, Candi Staton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Canzetta Maria "Candi" Staton (born March 13, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter best known in the United States for her 1970 version of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco chart-to-top "Young Hearts Run Free," her best-known in the US.
Staton's best-selling product in Europe is the anthemic "You Got the Love" from 1986, which was released in collaboration with the Source.
Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.
Staton is a four-time Grammy Award nominee.
Personal life
Staton has been married six times and has five children. Joe Williams, the first married Pentecostal minister, served from 1960 to 1968. Marcus Williams, Marcel Williams, Terry Williams, Williams, and Cassandra Williams-Hightower are among their four children. Clarence Carter Jr. married Clarence Carter in 1970, and they had one child; Clarence Carter Jr. In 1973, the couple divorced. Staton was married to Jimmy James from 1974 to 1977. Staton and Dossewell married John Sussewell (who was a drummer for Ashford & Simpson, as well as Dory Previn's sixth album) in 1988, two years after divorcing James. Staton was married to former baseball player Otis Nixon from 2010 to 2012. Staton has been married to Henry Hooper since 2017. Staton announced on October 30, 2018 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Solo career
In 1968, Staton was introduced to Rick Hall by Clarence Carter and launched her solo career as a Southern soul stylist, garnering 16 R&B hits for Rick Hall's Fame Studios and gaining the title of "First Lady of Southern Soul" for her Grammy-nominated R&B renditions of the songs "Stand by Your Man" and "In the Ghetto". Staton appeared on the September 23, 1972, edition (Season 2, Episode 1) of Soul Train.
In 1976, Staton began collaborating with producer David Crawford on disco songs such as "Young Hearts Run Free", which reached No. 1 on the US R&B charts, No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart and went Top 20 on the Pop Hot 100 during the summer of 1976. It was remixed and re-released in 1986, reaching the UK Top 50. Follow up song "Destiny" hit the Top 50 in the UK. and her version of "Nights on Broadway" hit the UK Top 10 in 1977;. In 1978, Staton scored another Top 50 hit in the UK with "Honest I Do Love You". In 1979 from her album Chance, Staton released the single "When You Wake Up Tomorrow" (co-written by Patrick Adams and Wayne K. Garfield) and the title song "Chance", a top 20 R&B charted record. Other dance club chart hits included "When You Wake Up Tomorrow" and "Victim". In 1982, Staton again hit the UK chart with a version of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds".
In 1982, Staton returned to gospel music. Staton and her then-husband, John Sussewell, founded Beracah Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia, with help from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL Ministries. Staton has since recorded twelve gospel albums, two of which received Grammy Award nominations. Staton appears on the United Nations Register of Entertainers, Actors And Others Who Have Performed in Apartheid South Africa.
In 1991, Staton returned to UK popular charts by lending her vocals to the Source's British hit, "You Got the Love". Staton signed with Intersound Records in 1995. In 2000, she released her eleventh album, Here's a Blessing. In 2004, the British record label Honest Jon's released a compilation album of her soul work from the late 1960s and early 1970s, the self-titled Candi Staton. Staton followed it up with a secular project in 2006 entitled His Hands, produced by Mark Nevers of Lambchop and with the title track written by Will Oldham. Two of Staton's children, Cassandra Williams-Hightower (background vocals) and Marcus Williams (drums), joined her on the album. A second studio album for Honest Jon's, titled Who's Hurting Now?, appeared in 2009. She and Rick Hall reunited to make a half dozen more tracks for Staton's 2014 southern soul album, Life Happens. The lead Americana radio single, "I Ain't Easy to Love", featured Jason Isbell and John Paul White (formerly of The Civil Wars). The trio performed the track on The Late Show with David Letterman. Staton's television show New Direction aired on TBN. Staton has also made appearances on the Praise the Lord telecast with the late Paul Crouch and his late wife Jan Crouch, as well as regularly performing on Robert Tilton's Success-N-Life show. In August 2018, Staton released her 30th album, "Unstoppable," which has been touted as a retro psychedelic R&B project. NPR music journalist, Alison Fensterstock, wrote that it, "Delivers the kind of forthright confidence and soul-girding power that can only be summoned by a grown woman who has learned a thing or two. And Staton has lived many lives. Creatively, the quadruple Grammy nominee and Christian Music Hall of Famer has moved between soul and R&B, gospel, disco and even EDM before returning to her roots as an elder stateswoman."