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Cleotha Staples

This March 15, 1999 file photo shows Cleotha Staples of the sibling group The Staples Singers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at her Chicago home after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for the last decade. She was 78. (AP Photo/Albert Ferreira, file)

Cleotha of Staples Singers siblings dead at 78

Caryn Rousseau, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group The Staples Singers, has died. She was 78...
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