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 ...

Franklin, who punctuates her short answers with a steady "mmmm hmmm," embraced contemporary music on her most recent album, 2014's Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. On it, she covers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit ... At 16 years of age, Franklin went on tour with him, just after recording her first album. She would sing at King's funeral a decade later.

Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely new audience. Aretha grew up in Detroit where her father was pastor at the New Bethel Baptist Church. She recorded her first album of gospel ...