While her career took her all over the world, Detroit was the place she called home until her 2018 death. Franklin owned many ...

Aretha Franklin ... in Respect. “We also did so with heavy guilt.” Eddie followed his mother's footsteps in the music industry, working as a gospel singer and even recording a cover of ...

Despite having record-breaking careers, artists like Madonna, Prince, and David Bowie have never won the Grammy for album of ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

By the 1960s, popular music began shifting its focus from 45 RPM singles to LP (or Long Play) “artist albums.” In the wake of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument ... Within two years of the song's release, Aretha Franklin and Donnie Hathaway had both recorded their own versions.