Aretha Franklin is teaming up with PBS for a forthcoming special, titled ‘Aretha Franklin Presents Soul Rewind. Hosted by the Queen of Soul herself, the special offers an abundance of long-lost archival material that has been recovered from film vaults across the United States, England, Germany and France yielding a massive collection of R&B and popular music […]
Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice will share a stage next month in Philadelphia at a benefit concert for inner city children. The Queen of Soul and the former secretary of state will headline a July 27 concert at the Mann Center, according to its Web site: “Ms. Rice will enchant us with selections from Mozart […]
soul (Middle English, from Old English sawol) – 1. the animating and vital principle in human beings, credited with the faculties of thought, actions and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. 2. a sense of ethnic pride among African-Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion and music.
Aretha Franklin is getting the R.E.S.P.E.C.T she deserves as Yale University Honors her with a Doctorate Degree. VIA NEWSONE NEW HAVEN — Yale University afforded the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T and love Monday, with a short musical tribute and sustained cheering, when she was awarded an honorary doctor of music […]
