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 ...

As the granddaughter of gospel icon Aretha Franklin, music runs in Grace Franklin's family. And in Sunday's season premiere of "American Idol," Grace, then 15, auditioned for the singing competition ...

(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 ...

*Hundreds of people attended a memorial service planned by Aretha Franklin for her late father and brother held at the Detroit church where they were ministers. The Detroit News reports the Sunday ...

Aretha Franklin has released dozens of albums since she was first recorded, along with her preacher father, on a 1956 gospel record. Between those dozens of albums, there are hundreds of songs; a ...