{"id":67579,"date":"2016-04-08T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/candi-staton-young-hearts-run-free-40th-anniversary-tour\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:50:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:50:57","slug":"candi-staton-young-hearts-run-free-40th-anniversary-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/candi-staton-young-hearts-run-free-40th-anniversary-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Candi Staton – \u201cYoung Hearts Run Free 40th Anniversary Tour\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candi Staton – \u201cYoung Hearts Run Free 40th Anniversary Tour\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A South Africa Event on 2016-06-08 19:30:00<\/i><\/p>\n

Four-time Grammy\u00ae Award nominated singer Candi Staton has sweetly strutted between musical genres such as gospel, southern soul and Americana over the course of her celebrated career. However, danceable music has always been her main groove as she celebrates the 40th and 30th anniversaries respectively of her two biggest radio hits \u201cYoung Hearts Run Free\u201d and 1986\u2019s \u201cYou Got The Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former is a liberating self-preservation anthem that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and No. 20 on the Pop chart in 1976 (No. 2 on the UK Pop chart). The latter is an inspiring chant that hit the American R&B Singles chart in 1986 but found greater success in Europe and the United Kingdom in
particular where various remixes of it hit the Top 10 Pop Singles chart in 1991, 1997 and again in 2006. Staton has a fresh version of \u201cYou Got The Love\u201d bouncing off the concrete walls of clubs throughout Europe as she currently preps a new arrangement of \u201cYoung Hearts\u201d for a new generation of fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been very blessed to have two extremely big songs and a lot of other respectable hit songs when some artists never get one,\u201d says Staton. \u201cI love how each generation discovers some old song of mine that I had long retired from my concert repertoire.\u201d Young artists are often dusting off Staton\u2019s classics and introducing them to their audiences. Jason Isbell reprised Staton\u2019s 1969 B-side \u201cHeart On A String.\u201d Christina Aguilera sampled 1972\u2019s \u201cBest Thing You Ever Had\u201d and French producer Jean Tonique\u2019s remix of \u201cBest Thing\u201d was featured in<\/p>\n

a Twitter Super Bowl TV ad campaign. Blues princess Susan Tedeschi covered \u201cEvidence.\u201d Florence & The Machine and Joss Stone both cut fun covers of \u201cYou Got the Love\u201d in 2010. The rock band One eskimO sampled Staton\u2019s 1971 cut<\/p>\n

\u201cHe Called Me Baby\u201d for their debut hit \u201cKandi\u201d that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Triple A chart in 2010. Artists ranging from Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige to young superstars such as Jessie J, Paloma Faith and Pixie Lott have spoken publicly of their admiration for Staton\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

The Hanceville, Alabama native got her start singing professionally as a teenager singing with The Jewel Gospel Trio that recorded for Nashboro Records and toured with Sam Cooke and Mahalia Jackson in the 1950s. Eventually, she
launched her R&B career at Birmingham\u2019s 27\/28 Club where she won a gig opening for R&B star Clarence Carter who snagged her a record deal with Rick Hall\u2019s Fame Records label in 1968. Over the next five years, she cut a string of<\/p>\n

Top Ten southern soul hits such as Grammy-nominated renditions of \u201cStand By Your Man\u201d and \u201cIn the Ghetto.\u201d Staton was crowned the First Lady of Southern Soul just as she was leaving Fame for Warner Bros. and tossed off her tiara to become a disco princess with smash club hits such as 1976\u2019s million-seller \u201cYoung Hearts Run Free,\u201d \u201cVictim\u201d and \u201cWhen You Wake Up Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

By 1983, Staton had beaten an alcohol addiction, joined a church, and left Pop music. She was a regular on Christian television programs such as \u201cThe PTL Club\u201d and gained her own weekly TV program \u201cNew Direction\u201d (later renamed
\u201cSay Yes\u201d) on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Network. For the next two decades, she recorded gospel music exclusively, including the Top Ten Grammy nominated projects \u201cMake Me An Instrument\u201d (1983) and \u201cSing A Song\u201d (1986)
LPs. Her gospel classics include \u201cLove Lifted Me,\u201d \u201cMama,\u201d \u201cThe First Face I Want to See,\u201d and \u201cSin Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2004, Staton returned to the Pop music scene to promote Honest Jons\u2019 compilation of Staton\u2019s 1969-1973 Fame recordings. It reached the Pop charts in England, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and Germany. There was an array of glowing reviews ranging from the New York Times to the rock magazine, Blender. London\u2019s prestigious Guardian newspaper gave it five stars. The jazz magazine, Downbeat, proclaimed the CD a masterpiece. Since then, Staton has released two critically acclaimed Americana albums \u201cHis Hands\u201d (2006) and<\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s Hurting Now?\u201d (2009). The latter won the Academie du Jazz in Paris\u2019s Best Soul CD of the year in 2010. In 2014, Staton released \u201cLife Happens\u201d that debuted at #10 on Billboard\u2019s Top Blues Albums chart and earned her two
appearances on \u201cThe Late Show with David Letterman.\u201d The album boasted the radio hit \u201cI Ain\u2019t Easy to Love\u201d featuring Jason Isbell and John Paul White of The Civil Wars. Rolling Stone hailed it as one of the best country recordings of 2014.<\/p>\n

Staton\u2019s evergreen sound has musicians lining up to perform with her. Her 2008 collaboration \u201cLove Sweet Sound\u201d with British duo Groove Armada returned her to the Billboard Magazine Top Ten US Dance charts for the first time since 1980.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also enjoyed a huge international hit with various Top DJ remixes (Larse, Frankie Knuckles, Ashley Beedle and David Penn) of her inspirational tune \u201cHallelujah Anyway\u201d that hit the pop and dance charts in Belgium, England, Germany and South Africa in 2012. The 2015 Dr. Shiver-Candi Staton ft. Doc M.C. \u201cYou Got The Love\u201d (Official Remix) was another Beatport Top Ten chart hit and she\u2019s currently working with other European remixers on new music. In the meantime, she\u2019s releasing her 12th original gospel album \u201cIt\u2019s Time To Be Free\u201d this summer and it includes a new potential dance hit, \u201cShout Out, Hallelujah.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

at Sugarclub<\/a>
\n8 Lower Leeson St
\nDublin, Ireland<\/p>\n

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