Canzetta Maria “Candi” Staton (/ˈsteɪtən/) (born March 13, 1940 in Hanceville, Alabama) is an American soul and gospel singer, finest recognized in the US for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” and her 1976 disco chart-topper “Younger Hearts Run Free”. In Europe, her largest promoting file is the anthemic “You Received the Love” from 1986 launched in collaboration with the Supply. Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Corridor of Fame.

Early years
On the age of 11 or twelve, Staton and her sister Maggie have been despatched to the Jewell Christian Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Her vocal skills rapidly set her aside from the gang; the college’s pastor teamed the 2 sisters with a 3rd lady (Naomi Harrison) to kind the Jewell Gospel Trio. As youngsters, they toured the normal gospel circuit within the Nineteen Fifties with the Soul Stirrers, C. L. Franklin and Mahalia Jackson. They recorded a number of sides for Nashbro, Apollo and Savoy Information between 1953 and 1963.

Solo profession

Candi Staton onstage at Guilfest 2012.
In 1968, Staton was launched to Rick Corridor by Clarence Carter and launched her solo profession as a Southern soul stylist, garnering 16 R&B hits for Rick Corridor’s Fame Studios and gaining the title of “First Girl of Southern Soul” for her Grammy-nominated R&B renditions of the songs “Stand by Your Man” and “Within the Ghetto”.  Staton appeared on the September 23, 1972 version (Season 2, Episode 1) of Soul Prepare. In 1976, Staton started collaborating with producer David Crawford on disco songs comparable to “Younger Hearts Run Free”, which reached #1 on the US R&B charts, #2 within the UK Singles Chart and went Prime 20 on the Pop Sizzling 100  in the course of the summer time of 1976. It was remixed and re-released in 1986 reaching the UK Prime 50. Comply with up tune “Future” hit the Prime 50 within the UK.  Candi’s model of “Nights on Broadway” hit the UK Prime 10 in 1977; it had been a US Billboard hit for the Bee Gees over a yr earlier than. In 1978, she scored one other Prime 50 hit within the UK with “Sincere I Do I Love You”. In 1979, from her album “Likelihood” Staton launched album single “When You Wake Up Tomorrow” (co-written by Patrick Adams and Wayne Ok. Garfield) and the title tune “Likelihood”, a TOP 20 R&B charted file. Different Dance membership chart hits included “When You Wake Up Tomorrow” and “Sufferer”.

In 1982, Candi once more hit the UK chart with a model of Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds”.  In 1997, singer Kym Mazelle recorded “Younger Hearts Run Free” for the movie adaption of Romeo and Juliet.

In 1982, Staton returned to gospel music. She married her fourth husband, John Sussewell (drummer for Ashford & Simpson and likewise Dory Previn’s sixth album). Collectively they based Beracah Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia with assist from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL Ministries. She has since recorded eight gospel albums, two of which obtained Grammy Award nominations.

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