One of my favorite moments in all of music is from the album “Songs of Faith,” which Aretha Franklin recorded live, in 1956, at the New Bethel Baptist Church, in Detroit, when she was barely fourteen ...
She was a child prodigy whose brilliance was clear from the start. But the struggles she endured helped make her the Queen of Soul. Accenting Aretha Franklin’s gospel roots in this 1967 photo, Art ...