The chart toppers and gospel hitmakers will be honored with awards highlighting not only their career achievements but also ...

Aretha Franklin's gifted voice was apparent to all from a young age, and her quote of the day recognizes the help she humbly ...

WHAT'S ALL this jazz. 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.

Turn on almost any major pop or R&B record from the last seventy years and you'll likely hear it without realizing: the ornamental vocal runs, the call-and-response phrasing, the way a singer seems to ...

Here is the surprise. For all its power, Amazing Grace never topped the chart. It peaked at just No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and stopped at No. 2 on the R&B albums chart, never claiming the top spot.

Gospel music evolved from antebellum spirituals into a distinct genre in 1920s Chicago, serving as both a "weapon of worship" and a foundation for modern R&B and Rock 'n Roll. The genre fueled the ...

Few in Detroit were tighter with the Rev. Jesse Jackson than the family of Aretha Franklin. Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, was a longtime friend of the Rev. C.L. Franklin. The men were Midwest ...

Detroit-born star CeCe Winans collected her 18 th Grammy Award on Sunday (Feb. 1), the latest accolade in her much-decorated gospel career. With the win, Winans has matched the career total of the ...

Had a four-octave vocal range. Was a self-taught pianist, who learned without knowing how to read music. Her father was shot by burglars in 1979 and remained in a coma until his death in 1984. Rev.