To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show ... soulful tour de force from the young singer who titled the album this is included on Aretha Arrives.

Encouraged by her father, Aretha made her first recording, the album Songs of Faith ... the 1998 VH1 Divas concert Time magazine's cover feature on Franklin in 1968 - making her only its second ...

Aretha Franklin was an American singer and songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul." Franklin began singing in her father's congregation as a young girl and released her first album, Songs of Faith ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...