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

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 ...

When Aretha Franklin died, the clip that was shared most widely - the most potent reminder of her raw, soul-stirring emotional force - was a 2015 performance of her 1967 hit (You Make Me Feel Like ...

Aretha Franklin famously sung of love and heartbreak, but away from the music her personal life was every bit as stormy. The brilliant soul singer, who died today aged 76 and was renowned as one ...

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 ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

When Aretha Franklin sought a second metro Detroit home as a creative sanctuary and hub for her famously lavish parties, she found the ideal spot. In March 1994, she purchased the Rose Estate ...

Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Etta James, Prince, Talking Heads... the list goes on, and eventually they all came out to Montreux. And when they did, Claude filmed and ...

Aretha Franklin, the American "Queen of Soul," passed away in Detroit in 2018. At the time, it was believed she had left no will behind relating to her fortune with a net worth of $80 million.

Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. But the tax dispute for Aretha Franklin was quite different, since the IRS was after income taxes they claimed the Queen of Soul ...