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 gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” died this morning in her Detroit, Michigan, home. She was 76. We’re wrapping up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earline Franklin , center, is joined by Kecalf Franklin, left, and "Amazing Grace" producer Alan Elliott at a reception at the ...

The final service for Aretha Franklin was infused with the kind of riveting gospel music and preaching that launched her to international stardom. Both pop and gospel singers, as well as a storied ...

Aretha Franklin’s voice was a pure, painful, and unforgettable expression of American history and American feeling, the collective experience of black Americans and her own life. The Queen of Soul, ...

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died at age 76. Franklin was the greatest female artist of her generation and beyond. For anyone who discovered Top 40 radio in the late 1960s, there was only ...