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 ...

and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely new audience. Aretha grew up in Detroit where her father was pastor at ...

When Aretha Franklin died ... Divas concert Time magazine's cover feature on Franklin in 1968 - making her only its second female African American cover star - claimed White "roughed her up ...

She was the Queen of Soul for a reason. From breaking records to paving the way for other female singers, Aretha Franklin set a series of firsts for women. Here’s a look at her groundbreaking ...

Franklin’s artistic breakthrough - and a landmark in American music as a whole. Recorded in part at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, in the US state of Alabama, this was the album that introduced ...

Describing the African ... in music video for "They Put Me in the Mix" National Museum of African American History and Culture Wooden clapper from the Cotton Club promoting Ethel Waters National ...

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 ...