The annual world music festival will remain based in Midtown Detroit — but will spend an evening at the riverfront venue ...

It’s fitting that the most amazing moment of Aretha Franklin’s long-unreleased ... of her career — is wretch-saving stuff. Gospel great the Rev. James Cleveland, who presides over the ...

The new Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace ... continues to mount. The gospel great Clara Ward throws her head into her hands, stunned by the force of Franklin’s improvisations ...

Aretha Franklin didn’t absorb that fierce sense ... by and muss Franklin’s curly hair when she was a girl. The gospel great Mahalia Jackson was such a frequent visitor that she would often ...

But the greatest album Franklin ever recorded ... and you will know that Aretha is still a gospel singer." Cohen, who penned "Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace" as part of the "33 1/3 (Thirty ...

And in his remembrance, Grammys exec producer Ehrlich also gave a nod to a gospel great and to Franklin’s family members who died before her. “Aretha, My bet is that God can’t wait for you ...

Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25 ... Dinah Washington and gospel great Clara Ward. Barbara and C.L.’s marriage ended when Aretha was 6, a parting widely characterized as a mother ...

“‘Amazing Grace’ is more a great Aretha Franklin album than a great gospel album,” wrote Jon Landau at the time. “The liberation and abandon she has always implied in her greatest ...

But the greatest album Franklin ever recorded ... and you will know that Aretha is still a gospel singer.” Cohen, who penned "Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace" as part of the "33⅓ (Thirty ...

There have been many indelible Aretha Franklin performances over the years ... He would often ask the gospel great Mahalia Jackson to perform that song at civil-rights rallies; when Jackson ...

Aretha Franklin, whose exceptionally expressive ... a family friend and gospel great. Siggers never pursued a career in music beyond performing in church, but Jackson encouraged Aretha to sing.

“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” from Aretha’s Greatest Hits (1970) There was gospel hidden deep within this Simon and Garfunkel classic; Franklin brought it out and sent it flying back to the ...