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 ...

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 ...

As the world mourns the loss of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, many are turning to the Queen of Soul's music as a way to grieve. Franklin died Thursday morning from pancreatic cancer at age 76. She ...

DETROIT — Rolling Stone ranks Aretha Franklin No. 1 in its list of the “greatest singers of all time” on Sunday. The list has 200 singers and orders them based on “originality, influence, the depth of ...

A powerhouse tribute to the Queen of Soul is headed to Oklahoma City Community College on Friday night. The OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center is hosting R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a full-scale concert ...

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 ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

As the undisputed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin was no stranger to the heights of the pop charts, but number-one singles proved elusive for the vocalist.

Aretha Franklin didn’t merely interpret songs. She did whatever she felt she needed to make them her own. Tempos changed, words were added or shed, entire verses ignored. Take two of Franklin’s ...

Aretha Franklin is one of the few artists who could perform Mariah Carey songs and do them justice. The Queen of Soul covered some of Carey’s tunes but one was too risque for her to sing it in full.