Blige and The Boys Choir of Harlem. MUST-READ: 15 Soul-Stirring Gospel Songs That Are Guaranteed To Lift Your Spirits Aretha ...

Aretha Franklin is one of the few artists who could ... Carey has hopped from genre to genre, making hip-hop, pop, R&B, dance music, gospel ballads, and even Christmas songs.

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 ...

A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary ... which is so pure and joyous." Franklin won 18 Grammys and had 17 Top Ten US chart hits over a music career spanning seven decades.

I mean so, his very life in his first two decades is the history of gospel music. COHEN: He lived for a while in the Franklin household when Aretha Franklin was growing up, he was close to her ...

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 ...

Aretha Franklin famously sung of love and heartbreak, but away from the music her personal life was ... her infamous father was renowned as 'promiscuous' gospel preacher, who hosted orgies at ...

Cissy Houston began singing on the gospel circuit as a child. She also sang secular music. She performed with The Sweet Inspirations, the group that backed Aretha Franklin. And she sang backup ...