Blige and The Boys Choir of Harlem. MUST-READ: 15 Soul-Stirring Gospel Songs That Are Guaranteed To Lift Your Spirits Aretha ...

A look at the live performances of Aretha Franklin, taking classic tracks from live albums and TV appearances in tribute to ...

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.

A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary ... which is so pure and joyous." Franklin won 18 Grammys and had 17 Top Ten US chart hits over a music career spanning seven decades.

But it has been argued that the inspiration for Franklin's passionate vocals was likely drawn from a painful place. Encouraged by her father, Aretha made her first recording, the album Songs of ...

I mean so, his very life in his first two decades is the history of gospel music. COHEN: He lived for a while in the Franklin household when Aretha Franklin was growing up, he was close to her ...

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 ...

In this final episode, Alvin explains how gospel became a global force in popular music. He reveals how Aretha Franklin's marriage of pop to gospel sold millions of records, introducing gospel to ...

Aretha Franklin completed formal training at ... and in the other, love songs to a woman. Gospel, and what Craig Werner, author of A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America ...

Book theatre tickets for Jules Buckley's Aretha at Christmas, Royal Albert Hall. Relive Aretha’s festive brilliance with ...