With a seemingly arbitrary mix of pop, jazz and R'n'B tunes, Franklin’s early-60s output on Columbia Records left audiences unsure about what kind of singer they were hearing. But nobody could ...

Carole King talks about watching Aretha perform the song for the first time Listen to Aretha Franklin tracks (BBC Music) Reflecting on that Kennedy Center performance, he said: "She was still ...

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

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.

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 ...