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Aretha Franklin is remembered as the Queen of Soul, but behind her legendary voice was a life full of family, love, and challenges. Her children played an important role in her story, growing up with ...

Welcome to Diva Week, a magical 7-day period on the calendar where we celebrate the birthdays of Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga. Every day we will be sharing ...

There's no question that Aretha Franklin is our Aries Angel. The Queen of Soul—who performed at the first ESSENCE Festival in 1995—began her career in the church. She later bellowed into the music ...

Beneath the surface of Aretha Franklin‘s iconic public persona lay a complex web of lovers and entanglements, some more passionate than others, and some fraught with tension, with most of them kept ...

American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin performing in Detroit, MI. Aretha Franklin’s "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" was released as her Atlantic ...

On this day (August 16) in 2018, the music world lost one of its greatest voices—Aretha Franklin. The Queen of Soul was 76 years old when she passed away from pancreatic cancer. Many of Franklin’s ...

A Michigan judge has awarded the late Aretha Franklin’s sons the legendary singer’s real estate, pointing to a handwritten 2014 will that was found in Franklin’s couch after her 2018 death. The ruling ...

DETROIT — A judge overseeing the estate of Aretha Franklin awarded real estate to the late star's sons, citing a handwritten will from 2014 that was found between couch cushions. The decision Monday ...

A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons ...

A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after she died in 2018 is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons ...

Music icon Aretha Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in 2018, at age 76. A trial over the Queen of Soul's estate started July 10. Her sons disputed which of two handwritten wills governs the estate. A ...