While her career took her all over the world, Detroit was the place she called home until her 2018 death. Franklin owned many ...

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 ...

He's also the father of several children who, like their famous grandmother, are also singer-songwriters. Aretha Franklin's Youngest Son Criticizes Upcoming Biopic 'Respect' Starring Jennifer ...

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's music has soundtracked social revolution. But it was more than just a soundtrack, as activism existed behind her music.

Aretha Franklin was 76 when she passed away from pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit, the city where she spent a formative period of her childhood and returned to later in life. By then she ...

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 ...

HERE we document the lives of the soul singer's four sons - she had two by the time she was just 14. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street ...