When Aretha Franklin recorded I Say a Little Prayer, she didn’t just cover a Dionne Warwick song, she reshaped it into a ...

Aretha Franklin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 1987, a historic moment followed by a somewhat chaotic speech.

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. “You know, I didn’t realize how much of an ...

Aretha Franklin, who died at her Detroit home on Thursday at age 76, earned her Queen of Soul title even before “Respect” became a huge hit for her in 1967. Her unmatched talent was just that obvious ...

Aretha Franklin died of pancreatic cancer on Thursday at age 76, leaving behind a legacy including iconic music and civil rights activism — and a reported fortune in the millions. The Queen of Soul ...

Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer, a pioneering arranger and producer and, not least, an important figure in the fight for civil rights. She was also — stay with me here — a master of the modern ...

Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, but she was also the matriarch of her sizable family, including her four sons: Clarence Franklin, Edward Franklin, Teddy Richards and Kecalf Franklin. The ...

When Franklin’s clarion voice hit the airwaves in 1967, she seemed a force of nature, a voice with the force of a horn section that claimed full attention, whether lamenting love gone wrong or ...