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

When Aretha Franklin died ... that the media like is the 'angry black woman'. It is old and tired, totally inaccurate. "That's why songs like A Natural Woman are so important.

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 ...

When Aretha Franklin first entered FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in January 1967, the 24-year-old singer was crackling ... go through several hundred songs and narrow it down to about ...

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.

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 ...