Welcome music sloots, to another edition of Music Manor Monday! Tonight, at the Manor's "Lost Sheep Lounge and Dinette," DJ Li'l Scratch will be spinning tunes by a criminally-unheralded vocal artist, the one and only Candi Staton, a Southern-Soul dynamo whose been married five times (once to Clarence Carter ), charted hits across five decades, beat breast cancer's ass, and in 2025, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Americana Awards . Which is just another way of saying that she really and truly is all that (as the kids used to say). Candi's life has been a whirlwind of extraordinary talent mixed with heart-wrenching, sometimes shocking, adversity. As a child, her family faced dire poverty and soul-crushing physical abusive from their alcoholic father. Luckily, by age 11, Candi revealed that she had powerful voice chops, and with her sister, joined The Jewell Gospel Trio . They were quickly discovered by talent scouts, thereafter touring throug...