Countless Aretha Franklin songs topped the charts throughout her 60-plus year career, and she earned not only the Grammy Legend Award and its Lifetime Achievement Award, but 18 Grammy wins out of ...

When Aretha Franklin died ... that the media like is the 'angry black woman'. It is old and tired, totally inaccurate. "That's why songs like A Natural Woman are so important.

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 ...

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 ...

But I’m delighted.’ The first songs I sang in church were “Jesus Be a Fence Around Me” and “I Am Sealed.” I was around 8 or 9. My dad asked me to sing that day. I didn’t want to sing ...