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Ashley Beedle's MAVIS project was originally sparked three years ago when he and musical partner Darren Morris had an evening listening to Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers. The pair were so blown away, this led them to create an instrumental which became the inspiration for the MAVIS album. To Ashley, Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers have always been hugely iconic. .

Mavi Sakal is a Turkish rock band. The band was founded in 1980 as ECHO'83 by Murat Tümer, Kaan Altan, and Tibet Ağırtan, who were students at the Tarsus American College in Tarsus, Turkey. The band changed its name to Mavi Sakal (literally, blue beard, or Bluebeard) in 1984. Mavi Sakal received increased public attention following their performance before Status Quo on the stage of Wembley Arena in Wembley, London in 1997. The band split-up several times but currently reunited in 2015 and released a digital EP called "Naklen". After promotional tours the band aims to record a new album...

Mavis Staples (born July 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rhythm and blues singer. Most of her career has been as lead singer for The Staple Singers. She first recorded solo for the Stax subsidiary Volt in 1969. Subsequent efforts included a Curtis Mayfield-produced soundtrack on Curtom, a nod to disco for Warner Bros. Records in 1979, a stab at electro-pop with Holland-Dozier-Holland in 1984, and a collaboration with Prince in the late 1980s and early 90s (producing the two solo albums Time Waits for No One in 1989 and The Voice in 1993, and various other collaborations)....