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In time she established her own ministry and television show. How, one wonders, will the gospel faithful view her reconciliation with secular music on His Hands? But I call them life songs. Pooling her compositions with the other, sometimes-hard-fought nominations, Staton set to work at the Beech House. The results, arranged simply with room for her voice to stretch out, feel like a musical rebirth.

Let the artist sing the song and just give enough instrumentation to make it sound good. The afternoon before the show, Staton opened up the stage with a soundcheck, welcoming those present saying, "Good to be back in my home Alabama," after she had asked the crowd how they were doing.

When she sings about those things it not only touches her but also her audience who is listening and watching, she said. Her friend David Crawford wrote this song for Staton to sing. It serves as an example of how her music is written with her life and hard times in mind. Staton said when she was telling Crawford about a particularly troublesome marriage and hard time in her life, he was furiously writing as he listened. The northern soul people in the UK went wild for that song.

The original white label is worth a mint. I read that Will Oldham wrote His Hands having read your biography and you recorded the song without having met him. Was it a good fit? That song tells a story. Abuse starts by verbals. Once you see red flags, you have to stop them because otherwise it gets worse.

Mark Nevers told me he played it to Will Oldham and he wept. In reference to one of my favourite ever tracks of the disco era, were you ever a victim of the very songs you sing? I was in quite a few abusive relationships in the early days. As an artist, you meet people that want to get into the industry and they are looking to spend your money. They come at you with champagne, roses and compliments and then suddenly they change. They say if you leave them they will kill you and come after your children.

I love my dear [late] friend Aretha [Franklin] and Gladys [Knight]. Staton recorded Unstoppable just a few weeks before the beginning of MeToo, but the singer had never waited for the rest of the world to care about her own story. Despite her own advice, when Staton first received her breast-cancer diagnosis, she was tempted to keep the news to herself.

You need help. I need that positive energy. The moment Staton realized she wanted to share her diagnosis with the world was the moment she realized she could, once again, became a source of inspiration, strength and guidance for others. In the months since learning about her breast cancer, Staton has already taken it upon herself to encourage everyone in her life to get mammograms.

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