File Photo, Associated Press
This March 15, 1999 file photo shows the sibling group The Staples Singers, from left, Pervis, Cleotha, Pops, Mavis, and Yvonne at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.
Yvonne Staples, background singer and manager of the R&B family group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home. She was 80.
Bill Carpenter, a family friend, confirmed Staples’s death to The New York Times, citing the cause as colon cancer.
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