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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Charleston Gospel Choir offers its "Queen of Soul and Gospel: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin" as ...

The Watson Family Singers were some of the first gospel performers on the radio, thanks to their All Nations Pentecostal ...

Ray Charles may have devised the structure, and Sam Cooke the personality imprint, but no vocalist has more embodied the essence of soul than Aretha Franklin. From the time she first lent her ...

Aretha Franklin is one of six people who'll be inducted into the Hall on Aug. 14 in Hendersonville, Tenn. She'll be joined by bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs, family group The Hoppers, contemporary ...

A survey of the many fools who have been immortalized in song, featuring Aretha Franklin, Bow Wow Wow, the Stone Roses and more. By David Renard A new project from T magazine highlights a group of ...

Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers in any style, died Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76. The cause was advanced pancreatic ...

Elton John released his second studio album, Self-titled, in 1970. The record featured “Your Song,” which was arguably the breakthrough hit for John, propelling him into stardom. The eponymous ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This marks the third time I’ve written about the late, great Aretha Franklin – and for good reason. Her musical career spanned more than five decades, earning her the well-deserved ...

How Radiohead, Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf and others made a point with punctuation. In deciding a family dispute over her estate, a jury in Michigan ruled that a handwritten document found in a couch ...