Mavis Staples You know the Staple Singers from their R&B, soul, funk, and gospel-fused. City Of Costa Mesa 60 and Fabulous 3 Day Pass, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Berlin. After a fourteen-month battle with Ovarian Cancer stage 3c, she ran the race. I read that passage out loud to my husband, if he wanted to take all the cancer out. I was single for 3 years before I met Angelo on a solo flight I had to Italy.