Happy (belated) birthday to the Queen of Soul! Aretha Franklin, born March 25, 1942, left an indelible mark on music, culture, and civil rights. Her voice—powerful, passionate, and ...

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 ...

With the well-earned nickname "Queen of Soul," there are few voices more iconic than Aretha Franklin's. From the 1950s until her death in August 2018, Franklin's soaring vocals have had a towering ...

An assembly of people gathered in January 1972 in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles for a service of sorts – though not the ordinary kind. Amazing Grace was released as a double ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin went into the New Missionary Baptist Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts to record a gospel album. Warner Brothers hired director Sydney Pollack to oversee a crew ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...