Countless Aretha Franklin songs topped the charts throughout her 60-plus year career, and she earned not only the Grammy ...

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 ...

But I’m delighted.’ The first songs I sang in church were “Jesus Be a Fence Around Me” and “I Am Sealed.” I was around 8 or 9. My dad asked me to sing that day. I didn’t want to sing ...

But it has been argued that the inspiration for Franklin's passionate vocals was likely drawn from a painful place. Encouraged by her father, Aretha made her first recording, the album Songs of ...

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 ...

The producer’s latest project with the legendary singer is Friends of Marcia Griffiths: Celebrating 60 Years. Released on ...

The late Aretha Franklin's 15-year-old granddaughter, Grace Franklin, auditioned for "American Idol" during its fifth season premiere Sunday night. "I was really close with my grandma," she said.

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Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. But the tax dispute for Aretha Franklin was quite different, since the IRS was after income taxes they claimed the Queen of Soul ...

Twenty years ago, Jennifer Hudson had hit bottom. As in the bottom three of “American Idol” — where she was shockingly up for ...