Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to being a maternal figure to Hudson, the Memphis-born icon has long been the Queen of Soul to music lovers around the ...

Aretha Franklin was undoubtedly the Queen of Soul when she released her 18th album, Young, Gifted and Black, at the start of 1972. But she was the queen of a lot of other things, too, including cover ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Aretha Franklin—and I doubt it’ll be the last. With a career as monumental and emotionally layered as hers, every return to her ...

Before awards and global fame, Aretha Franklin’s voice reshaped soul and R&B, leaving an indelible mark on music history. When Aretha Franklin stepped into a recording studio, she did more than make ...

A biopic of the Queen of Soul was never going to satisfy everyone — but Jennifer Hudson captures the power of Franklin's songs Respect, in which Hudson stars, doesn’t — can’t — entirely do justice to ...