Meet 7 iconic Black musicians who transformed music and won countless awards, from soul to hip hop, shaping culture forever.

Interview with Kirk Franklin, whose Atlanta concert on June 1 is part of Blavity Fest at Lee + White in West End.

Queen produced a huge number of hits that are still listened to decades later - but what was Freddie Mercury's favourite?

Perhaps the greatest voice ever to sing popular music fell silent on August 16, 2018. Aretha Franklin’s work was rich in the joy, sadness and complexity of being alive, steeped in gospel and R&B but ...

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To come up with the closing theme of the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect ... So what better gospel great to bring in to co-write than … Carole King? The key tie-in was that King co-wrote ...

(WTRF) – Rolling Stone has released its latest list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and the Queen of Soul is at the top. Aretha Franklin ... rock & roll, gospel, and blues to create ...

Aretha long had an itch for movie stardom. In 1968, perhaps inspired by family friend and gospel great Clara Ward’s role in the MGM film “A Time to Sing,” Franklin reworked her Atlantic ...

Dubbed, “gospel music’s biggest night,” the ... during which Lady Tramaine Hawkins was honored with the Aretha Franklin Icon Award and The Clark Sisters received the James Cleveland Lifetime ...

For Cynthia Erivo, Aretha Franklin became larger than life during ... including Dinah Washington, gospel great Clara Ward and her mother, who died when Aretha was young. When life gets chaotic ...