MUST-READ: 15 Soul-Stirring Gospel Songs That Are Guaranteed To Lift Your Spirits Aretha Franklin performing ... 1 spot on ...

A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary will premiere in New York City - 46 years after being filmed. Amazing Grace was shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972, but it spent decades in an ...

With the death of Aretha Franklin, the world has lost perhaps the greatest singer of our age ... Franklin sang his favourite gospel song, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, at a memorial service.

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 ...

She wanted hits. But Franklin made pop come to her, not the other way around. When showtunes and standards didn’t work in the ’60s, Aretha switched to gritty R&B and gospel harmonies—and ...

and a considerable musical talent in her own right – a double Grammy-winning singer of gospel and R&B and a sought-after backing singer for Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and ...