Candi Staton currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been married to Henry Hooper since 2017.
On October 30, 2018, Staton announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Staton appears on the United Nations Register of Entertainers, Actors and Others Who Have Performed in Apartheid South Africa. Creatively, Candi has moved between soul and R&B, gospel, disco and even EDM before returning to her roots as an elder stateswoman.
In 1982, Staton returned to gospel music. Staton and her then-husband, John Sussewell, founded Beracah Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia, with help from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL Ministries. Staton has since recorded twelve gospel albums, two of which received Grammy Award nominations.