Kicking off a new weekly series, where readers pose questions for film and
music stars, is the 81-year-old
Queen of soul and disco heartbreak
We are launching a new weekly Guardian feature called The Reader Interview, published online, and in print in our Film & Music section. Each week our readers – you! – will become the interviewers, posting questions for a film or music star.
Our first interviewee is Candi Staton, the 81-year-old
Singer whose career stretches back to 1953, when she began recording gospel songs in a vocal trio as a teenager. She switched to secular music in the 1960s, and her soul recordings are some of the most powerful and emotionally complex of the era.