With a seemingly arbitrary mix of pop, jazz and R'n'B tunes, Franklin’s early-60s ... this was the album that introduced the Queen of Soul in all her glorious complexity: a voice of passion ...

this Aretha Franklin album is not as well-known as her two most notable releases – 1967’s I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love ...

With the death of Aretha Franklin, the world has lost perhaps ... She was the first woman in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lady Soul racked up 20 Top 10 albums, a dozen million-selling singles ...

Aretha Franklin, the "queen of soul" known for hits ... By 1968 she was renowned throughout America and Europe as "Lady Soul" - a symbol of black pride who appeared on the cover of Time and ...

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 ...

The definitive female soul singer of the '60s, a symbol of black pride, and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin ... her first album of gospel ...

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. "You know, I didn't realize how much of ...