Candi Staton

Candi Staton is one of those artists whose songs everyone knows even when her name doesn't ring a bell, and that low-key injustice always gets under my skin. Out of Hanceville, Alabama, she gave us the 1976 disco landmark Young Hearts Run Free and, a decade later, You Got the Love, a record that became practically sacred in British club culture. The fact that her biggest hits land differently on each side of the Atlantic says something about how soul travels. To me she reads as a survivor's voice, gospel roots, disco peaks, and a catalog that keeps getting rediscovered by new generations.

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Name (English)

Candi Staton

Name (Japanese)

キャンディ・ステイトン

Reading

きゃんでぃ・すていとん

Born

March 13, 1940 (age 86)

Origin

Hanceville, Alabama, United States

Occupation

singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://www.candi-staton.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/candistaton/
• Xhttps://x.com/iamcandistaton
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candi%20Staton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449200

Tags

• Alabama
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.