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.

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a ... "Finally someone said, ‘Aretha, why don't you sit down and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aretha Franklin was an American singer and songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul." Franklin began singing in her father's congregation as a young girl and released her first album, Songs of Faith ...