As she headed into her first-ever onstage collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aretha Franklin was confident about the crossover potential. "I have very sophisticated fans,” she told the ...

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 an ...

No one pummels a lyric quite like Aretha Franklin. (Save the outrage, Lady Soul fans; that's a compliment.) Even at 65, with her spotlighted space in the popular music pantheon locked down, the ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's tribute to Aretha Franklin this weekend will fill the concert hall with the hits made famous by the Queen of Soul, but it also pays homage to an extraordinary rare ...