Aretha Franklin’s soulful songs still define Black Music Month, honoring her power, grace, and influence on generations of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aretha Franklin’s incredible music seemed made for the movies — with each song often feeling like a powerful short film in itself.

Aretha Franklin, whose exceptionally expressive singing about joy and pain and faith and liberation earned the Detroit diva a permanent and undisputed title — the “Queen of Soul” — died Aug. 16 at her ...

Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul," died Thursday in Detroit after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76. Franklin took soul music to a new level and inspired generations of singers who came ...