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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 ...

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her ...

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 ...

CeCe Teneal honors Franklin — an 18-time Grammy award-winning icon whose career spanned 50 years — with personalized ...

T.I.‘s “Bring Em Out” and Aretha Franklin and the Royal Philarmonic’s recording of “You’re All I Need to Get By.” Another ...

March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in ...

Her voice is the soulful soundtrack of a generation, seemingly heard everywhere across the music radio dial and ... a valid will in Michigan. Yes, Aretha Franklin remains a very present entity ...

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The definitive female soul singer of the '60s, a symbol of black pride, and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely ...

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 ...