The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was a vocalist like no other and she was well-aware of her own importance as a performer ...

A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary ... which is so pure and joyous." Franklin won 18 Grammys and had 17 Top Ten US chart hits over a music career spanning seven decades.

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show ... with her last trophy coming in 2008 for Best Gospel Performance on "Never Gonna Break My Faith ...

I mean so, his very life in his first two decades is the history of gospel music. COHEN: He lived for a while in the Franklin household when Aretha Franklin was growing up, he was close to her ...

This new genre dominated the music charts in the late 1950s and 1960s, with artists such as Clyde McPhatter, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Ben E. King and the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin. Week 6: ...

The definitive female soul singer of the '60s, a symbol of black pride, and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely ...

Franklin’s artistic breakthrough - and a landmark in American music as a whole. Recorded in part at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, in the US state of Alabama, this was the album that introduced ...

Born in Memphis to a gospel singer/pianist and ... "The loss of Aretha Franklin is a blow for everybody who loves real music." Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney wrote: "Let's all take a moment ...

Stay out of her way. Franklin, who has died aged 76 in Detroit, was a church girl first and foremost. She was the master of the gospel form. For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in ...

Aretha Franklin famously sung of love and heartbreak, but away from the music her personal life was ... her infamous father was renowned as 'promiscuous' gospel preacher, who hosted orgies at ...

Mica explored the revival of gospel music in pop earlier this year in ... Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin and Mariah Carey, Mica presents Christmas classics and rare gospel gems that stir the ...