Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to being a maternal figure to Hudson, the Memphis-born icon has long been the Queen of Soul to music lovers around the ...

Aretha Franklin's 1967 hit "Respect" has been ranked the best song of all time by Rolling Stone. Interestingly, the song wasn't originally Franklin's. It was written and recorded by Otis Redding ...

In 1968, Franklin arrived at Atlantic’s studio intending to record songs for what would become her 13th studio album, 'Aretha Now'.

She has the greatest, most powerful, most torrential singing voice of all time. Even without reading it, you know who the person is. That’s right, soul singer Aretha Franklin. By just opening her ...

'Respect' screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson speaks with Showbiz Cheat Sheet about writing the Aretha Franklin biopic. Scott Wilson addressed how she chose which songs to include in the movie, and even ...

They call her the Queen of Soul for a reason. Aretha Franklin's late-'60s recordings defined soul music. As the daughter of the Rev. C.L. Franklin, a prominent Detroit minister and gospel singer who ...

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s discography is one so vast and so iconic that it will forever live on through our speakers. With her four-octave vocal range, no one (and we mean no one) could sing a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Aretha Franklin—and I doubt it’ll be the last. With a career as monumental and emotionally layered as hers, every return to her ...

When Rolling Stone ranked the 200 best singers of all time, the top 10 included artists with hits going as far back as the ...

Aretha Franklin will forever be remembered as the legendary Queen of Soul, but her six decade career (during which she won 18 Grammy awards and was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and ...