The decision surrounding Aretha Franklin’s will has been ... "Respect" is one of Franklin’s top signature songs. Its powerful lyrics, which include spelling out its title, remain a symbol ...

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 song has since been covered by various artists, from Otis Redding to Dolly Parton and Aretha Franklin. The song was added ...

Stacker compiled 20 hit songs between 1960 and today that were written by someone other than the singer, using various ...

In R&B, it’s a time-tested tradition as old as spin moves and shiny suits: An artist records a hit song and immediately plays ...

About five songs into the premiere of Mariah Carey’s residency Friday at Park MGM, the first time I had seen the Grammy Award ...

Julia Gagnon's performance of "Here I Am" by Bryan Adams won her praise from judges Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan ...

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 ...

Franklin would record for Columbia constantly throughout the first half of the '60s, notching occasional R&B hits (and one Top ... of Soul Aretha Franklin in the second hour and enjoy a sampling of ...

When we listen to a song on the radio or in a soundtrack, we tend to assume the voice we're hearing is the same person who ...