Her soul was as deep as her voice was strong. “I think of Aretha as ‘Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,’” wrote the late Jerry Wexler, Franklin’s producer at Atlantic Records.

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died Thursday morning at her home ... former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama said every time Franklin sang "we were all graced with a ...

Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at ... Like all her best work, the rest of Lady Soul included, it will endure.

“Aretha shattered the atmosphere ... Otis Redding — helped define Franklin as a role model for an emerging demographic. Though she reigned over soul music, Franklin tackled a variety of ...

But the song was only the beginning of her success. The following year, Franklin came out with two towering albums, "Lady Soul" and "Aretha Now," introducing the timeless hits "Chain of Fools" and ...

Recording such seminal albums as “Aretha Arrives” (1967), “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You” (1967), and “Lady Soul” (1968), Franklin suddenly became a fixture near the top of ...

Before she became a soul-singing superstar, Aretha Louise Franklin ... put Aretha back on piano and let the lady wail.” For her first Atlantic session, Ms. Franklin traveled to FAME Studios ...

Dubbed the Queen of Soul in 1967 ... Known to her fans simply as “Aretha,” Franklin was an inordinately complex pop star — “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,” wrote Wexler in his memoir.

But Franklin also brought nuance and subtlety to her vocals beyond most soul shouters ... depth of a community’s despair. “I call Aretha Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,” wrote Wexler ...

Aretha Franklin, the long-reigning "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think" and her signature song, "Respect," died Thursday at age 76, said her representative ...

“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, the eruptive singer who reigned atop the pop and R&B charts in the late ’60s and early ’70s with a succession of albums and singles of unparalleled power ...