Aretha Franklin's influence on music was profound during her lifetime, and since her death, pop stars have been opening up about the way the Queen of Soul shaped them as performers. On Thursday ...

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 ...

Franklin supported Democrats for decades, including performing the national anthem at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ...

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

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President Joe Biden honored Selena Quintanilla with the National Medal of Arts, the federal government's highest honor for ...

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They became some of the most sought-after backing artists in the US, providing the “sha-la-las” on Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl and the “chain chain chains” on Aretha Franklin’s ...

A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...