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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

NPR

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Aretha Franklin is dead and we still, 50 years after she made her artistic and commercial breakthrough, can scarcely comprehend the still-shocking power of her singing. Aretha Franklin must have understood early on what fame was like, as the daughte

NPR

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Staff members of NPR remember the Queen of Soul beyond her No. 1 hits. These are Aretha Franklin's most essential deep cuts.

Los Angeles Times

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As prolific as she was influential, Aretha Franklin released dozens of albums in a career that lasted longer than half a century. Here are five of her most important: "Laughing on the Outside," 1963 With a seemingly arbitrary mix of pop, jazz and R&B

Woman's Day

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She was the iconic musical feminist who ordered her man to show her some respect way back in 1965 – and after that, no one messed with Aretha Franklin, the ordained Queen of Soul. Even Beyonce found out the hard way after mistakenly introducing Tina

NPR

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Topped by Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," the R&B Top 20 from the week of March 30, 1968 shows American soul flourishing in all directions.

Los Angeles Times

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With her place as a hit-making force cemented decades ago, music industry greats stepped up to remember Aretha Franklin on Thursday after her death. Some, such as Clive Davis, said their relationship went beyond business - to friendship. "She was tru

TechLife News

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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

The Atlantic

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If the Great Migration could be condensed into a single personal narrative, it might be Aretha Franklin’s. Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, to a traveling, womanizing preacher and a gospel-singing mother, Franklin was whisked north by the same cur

NPR

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Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul," died Thursday in her home city of Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 76. Franklin sold

AppleMagazine

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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

Los Angeles Times

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Aretha Franklin, one of the most popular and influential musicians of all time, is "gravely ill," according to WDIV Local 4 in Detroit, her hometown. On Monday morning, the outlet reported that the 76-year-old singer was requesting prayers in the fac

NPR

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The Queen of Soul rarely gave interviews, so we were delighted when she sat down for a Fresh Air interview in 1999.

Chicago Tribune

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Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was a once-in-a-generation singer. She was the Queen of Soul, but she also ventured into - and mastered - virtually every style of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and blues. Here were her essential r

Hi Fi News

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By the time Stax had hired Joel Brodsky as its regular sleeve photographer, he had already produced images that would adorn a million walls. While shooting The Doors’ debut album sleeve, for instance, he took shots of a Messianic-looking, 23-year-old

NPR

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This is the kind of pop song made for crying on the dance floor, tears smeared into glittery eye shadow.

Hi Fi News

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Onomatopoeia Records HUM30; LP: HUM29 For lovers of the early ’90s dream pop genre, two Belfast bands, Butterfly Child and Papa Sprain are names to conjure with. Joe Cassidy of the former and Gary McKendry of the latter are old friends who worked tog

NPR

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The now Nashville-based Josh Rouse strolls back for his third visit to Mountain Stage, making himself right at home during a four-song set.

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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“The truth is, Black music and American music are inseparable,” says Tuwisha Rogers-Simpson. She is the vice president of brand and partnerships for the highly anticipated National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), set to open January 18, 202

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - To honor Aretha Franklin's roots in gospel music, Shirley Caesar sang "Mary, Don't You Weep." To showcase Franklin's rhythmic flair, Janelle Monae did "Rock Steady." And to highlight the late icon's important role in the fight for civil

AppleMagazine

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“I just needed to let my old self go,” the 27-year-old Gomez recently told Apple Music, following her tumultuous half-decade since the release of her second solo studio album, Revival. The euphoric follow-up, Rare, reflects the artist’s recovery from

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Following some deeply troubling years, the overall outlook, the chief executive pronounced on Tuesday, is strong. He also voiced optimism at some encouraging signs of unity he claims to have witnessed across the fiercely competitive and

UNCUT

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Did being the first multicultural chart-toppers make headlines when it happened? It did, yes. We were three white guys, three black guys, and a keyboard player from Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was back then, and we often thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great

Hi-Fi Choice

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CD The Last Music Company PENN’S GOT FORM. Back in the sixties he was bashing out hits for Aretha, Janis and Percy Sledge, and now he’s back with his first new music in 26 years, and there’s some good stuff here. Clean Slate is a great example of his

NPR

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The British singer discusses making a staggered comeback after a career full of ups and downs and celebrating the changes in R&B.

NPR

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The West African vocalist talks about bringing out the Afrobeat in Celia Cruz's rich Cuban catalog with the tribute album Celia.

AppleMagazine

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Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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She was the iconic musical feminist who ordered her man to show her some respect way back in 1965 – and after that, no one messed with Aretha Franklin, the ordained Queen of Soul. Even Beyonce found out the hard way after mistakenly introducing Tina

NPR

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The versatile Texas singer-songwriter mixes spiky synth-pop with softer, slower-burning reflections on the way human beings interact.

NPR

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Loceke, Den-Mate's forthcoming album, tells stories of death and rebirth, darkness and renewal, set against songwriter Jules Hale's most colorful and expansive compositions yet.