Here’s a look at the life of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin. Personal Birth date: March 25, 1942 Death date: August 16, 2018 Birth place: Memphis, Tennessee Birth name: Aretha Louise Franklin ...

Aretha Franklin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 1987, a historic moment followed by a somewhat chaotic speech.

When Aretha Franklin recorded I Say a Little Prayer, she didn’t just cover a Dionne Warwick song, she reshaped it into a ...

The new biopic “Respect” runs through two decades of Aretha Franklin’s life in 2½ hours, starting at age 9 and culminating with her back-to-the-roots gospel project “Amazing Grace.” The film, starring ...

Aretha Franklin’s casket was escorted out of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple after a nearly eight-hour funeral service filled with performances by superstar singers and remarks by friends and former ...

There is no love lost between musical legends Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin. At last year’s Grammy awards, Beyonce introduced Tina as “The Queen.” This did not sit well with Aretha, who is often ...

During a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, the Queen of Soul revealed her thoughts on Queen B. “We have a lot of respect for each other,” Franklin said. “I love the beat of ‘Bootylicious.’ And ‘I’m a ...

PEOPLE spoke with the designer behind her infamous 2009 inauguration hat, Luke Song Colleen Kratofil is the Senior Editor, TV at PEOPLE. The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died on Thursday at the age ...

Aretha Franklin's gifts as a singer were prodigious; her voice transcended the artificial walls of genre, giving listeners of the past, present and future an aural sense of American culture at any ...

Aretha Franklin covered The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” Keith Richards appeared in the music video for her cover. Both versions of the song appeared in a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg.

When Franklin’s clarion voice hit the airwaves in 1967, she seemed a force of nature, a voice with the force of a horn section that claimed full attention, whether lamenting love gone wrong or ...

"We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family," a statement read. — -- Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul” whose unmistakable, booming voice helped define a music genre and provided an ...