A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary will premiere in New York City - 46 years after being filmed. Amazing Grace was shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972, but it spent decades in an ...
Aretha Franklin singing at Barack Obama's inauguration ... Born in Memphis to a gospel singer/pianist and a celebrated Baptist preacher, Franklin was tutored from an early age by such gospel ...
COHEN: Aretha Franklin as a teenager is also singing on the gospel circuit, which in addition to bring her to many churches across America, she was working incredibly hard as a young woman to ...
Aretha Franklin famously sung of love and heartbreak ... However, her infamous father was renowned as 'promiscuous' gospel preacher, who hosted orgies at his church. When Aretha fell pregnant ...
Aretha Franklin is one of the few artists who could ... Carey has hopped from genre to genre, making hip-hop, pop, R&B, dance music, gospel ballads, and even Christmas songs.
For the same person to have released both these records would be extraordinary if her name was not Aretha Franklin. The dynamic range of vocal performance, from the gospel of the former to the ...
The definitive female soul singer of the '60s, a symbol of black pride, and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely ...