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

Illustration of Aretha Franklin by Julie Winegard ... to simply declare her the greatest singer of our time. She is Lady Soul; she is blues personified; she sings the gospel from a place so ...

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 ...

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.

The trouble with an honorific nickname as deserving as the Queen of Soul is that it starts to ... a shortcut to acknowledging the genius of Aretha Franklin without necessarily having to reflect ...

"May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace." Former first lady Michelle Obama also shared a message of remembrance. "Watching Aretha Franklin perform at the White House, and on so many other ...

about soul? Well, Lady Soul has the nitty-gritty answer. For, there is no denying that gospel gut-singing moved uptown with Aretha Franklin and her penetrating wail of truth. When this chunky ...

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.

Aretha Franklin ... with former first lady Michelle Obama released Thursday. “She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human.” Franklin, whose Earth-rattling ...

Franklin in 1967 released Aretha Arrives, which included “Baby, I Love You,” then followed less than a year later with Lady Soul, featuring “Chain of Fools” (which reached No. 2 ...

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 ...