To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. "You know, I didn't realize how much of ...

Edward Franklin, at the age of 15. In 1961, when she was 19 years old, Aretha married music manager Ted White, and the pair welcomed a son, Ted White Jr., in 1964. Aretha and Ted divorced in 1969 ...

But I’m delighted.’ The first songs I sang in church were “Jesus Be a Fence Around Me” and “I Am Sealed.” I was around 8 or 9. My dad asked me to sing that day. I didn’t want to sing ...

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 ...

John and Yoko became show hosts, "Wayne's World" premiered, Elton John appeared on The Simpsons, Aretha Franklin recorded ...

Aretha Franklin’s hit from 1967 was named ... while recording her version of the Otis Redding original. Rolling Stone says the song “catalyzed rock & roll, gospel, and blues to create the ...