For more on her legacy, check out this gallery to see some of Aretha Franklin's greatest moments. You may also like: Discover the ... the '70s saw a decrease in hits, and in 1979 Franklin ...

Our goal with Firsts, which we will continue to update as new barriers are broken ... singing in the church is like singing no place else, really. You have an ethereal feeling there.

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Just like her mom, she was one of the great sopranos." In 1978, Franklin married actor Glynn Turman, in a ceremony officiated by her father at his New ... greatest night in the life of Miss Aretha ...

“The playlist — this was before I made the Aretha playlist — had Mariah Carey on it, and it looked like (Franklin) wasn’t into it,” Smith remembers. “I asked her who her favorite new ...

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Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of ...

HERE we document the lives of the soul singer's four sons - she had two by the time she was just 14. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street ...