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.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three months after her death and 46 years after she first recorded it, Aretha Franklin's live gospel concert is coming to the big screen. "Amazing Grace," filmed in January 1972 ...

Aretha Franklin defined how soul and rock can sound on a stage as much as on the radio. Her historic concert recordings in the United States, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, still guide how live ...

From Kanye West’s Coachella Sunday Service live stream (screenshot by Hyperallergic) Kanye’s Coachella set list incorporated traditional hymns, pop odes by Stevie Wonder and DMX, and his own music, ...

As outlined in Gospel, a two-night, four-hour miniseries premiering Feb. 12 on PBS, gospel music began in the early decades of the 20th Century, but the idea of singing to the Lord came even before ...

Dr. Bobby Jones will receive the Thomas A. Dorsey Most Notable Achievement Award. By Paul Grein CeCe Winans is set to receive the Aretha Franklin Icon Award at the 2023 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, ...

(RNS) — What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like? The question may seem random, as the two figures are so different. One is the Queen of Soul, a Memphis native ...