Candi Staton: ‘I was in a few relationships where I’d think: Should I kill them?’

Between the chitlin' circuit' and her new rave tunes, the soul diva even picked up praise from Elvis. In our new series where you ask the questions, this storied musician reveals a few untold yarns

Why do you think that your early 70s classic albums (I'm Just a Prisoner, Stand By Your Man, Candi Staton etc) are less canonised than other classic' albums of that period by the Stones, the Beatles etc? mesm

Back then I didn't get on the same chart as those guys because Black artists on smaller labels were put in the R&B charts, not the pop charts. It was musical segregation. To cross over you needed a big label and money behind you. There was a lot of politics. In the UK there was one chart, which is how it should be.