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, born March 25, 1942, left an indelible mark on music, culture, and civil rights. Her voice—powerful, passionate, and unmistakable—redefined soul music and became a rallying cry for ...

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.

Franklin penned this 1967 track with her husband at the time, Ted White, and whatever…uh, chemistry the two may have had is evident as Aretha lays down some of her sexiest vocals ever, announcing ...

(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 ...

She has the greatest, most powerful, most torrential singing voice of all time. Even without reading it, you know who the person is. That’s right, soul singer Aretha Franklin. By just opening her ...

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s discography is one so vast and so iconic that it will forever live on through our speakers. With her four-octave vocal range, no one (and we mean no one) could sing a ...

Aretha Franklin is forever known as the Queen of Soul, and if you listen to her music, it's clear why. The legendary musician started singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, ...