children. In the 2015 documentary Mavis! she reveals that Bob Dylan once proposed to her, and she turned him down. Awards and honors In 1999, The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Lauryn Hill. In 2005, Mavis and the Staple Singers were honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Mavis Staples is a recipient of a 2006 National Heritage Fellowship, awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Staples was named No. 56 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. On February 13, 2011, Staples won her first Grammy award in the category for Best Americana Album for You Are Not Alone. In her acceptance speech, a shocked and crying Staples said, "This has been a long time coming". On May 7, 2011, Staples was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. On May 6, 2012, Staples was awarded an honorary doctorate, and performed "I'll Take You There" with current and graduating students at Columbia College Chicago's 2012 Commencement Exercise in Chicago, Illinois, at the historic Chicago Theatre. Staples was recognized as a 2016 Kennedy Center Honoree at the 39th annual gala event held in Washington, D.C. In 2017, Staples was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. On November 6, 2021, Staples was inducted as a Laureate at the 57th Laureate Convocation of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois. Discography Studio albums Mavis Staples (1969) Only for the Lonely (1970) Oh What a Feeling (1979) Time Waits for No One (1989) The Voice (1993) Spirituals & Gospel: Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson (1996) Have a Little Faith (2004) We'll Never Turn Back (2007) You Are Not Alone (2010) One True Vine (2013) Livin' on a High Note (2016) If All I Was Was Black (2017) We Get By (2019) References External links [ Mavis Staples Singles Chart History] Mavis Staples at NPR Music River Front Times: Mavis Staples Mavis Staples Interview Mavis Staples on NPR's "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!"'s "Not My Job" segment An Evening with Mavis Staples hosted by the Chicago Freedom School Mavis! documentary on Mavis Staples 1939 births Living people Activists for African-American civil rights 20th-century African-American women singers