Portrait of the artist: Candi Staton, singer

'When You Got the Love came out, people in church told me it was the devil's music'What got you started?When I was about five, our community would have a convention every fifth Sunday and churches would bring their singers. One Sunday, a church brought a little girl; I watched her, and I was like, "If she can sing, I can too!" So I learned a song, and sang it to my pastor, and he took me wherever he went. I started to learn more and more songs – and before you knew it, I was singing everywhere...

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