Yet it sold more than two million copies in the United States, earned double-platinum status and remains the best-selling ...

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 ...

The Charleston Gospel Choir offers its "Queen of Soul and Gospel: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin" as a part of this year's Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Credit: Taylor Czerwinski After a first performance ...

(RNS) — What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like? The question may seem random, as the two figures are so different. One is the Queen of Soul, a Memphis native ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

In 1971, in the afterglow of the counterculture and civil rights movements of the '60s, Aretha Franklin performed three ...