The MSG event, held Aug. 28, 1960, was the second annual gathering of Black church groups organized by Joe Bostic of station WLIB; it drew 10,000 audience members. Other performers included Sister ...

Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-wining gospel singer, mother of the late Whitney Houston and backup singer for acts ranging from Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin to Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon and ...

LOS ANGELES – Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of Whitney ...

With her latest Grammy, CeCe Winans is tied with Aretha Franklin for second among Detroit artists — and third among the ...

Franklin says she sang "all day, every day" as a young girl. One of three daughters of the Rev. Clarence Franklin, Aretha started out as a gospel singer in her father's church. In 1967 she issued her ...

WHAT'S ALL this jazz. about soul? Well, Lady Soul has the nitty-gritty answer. For, there is no denying that gospel gut-singing moved uptown with Aretha Franklin and her penetrating wail of truth.

Political dignitaries and music royalty led the tributes to Aretha Franklin at her star-studded funeral on Friday, joining her family and members of the public in bidding goodbye to Americas "Queen of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of Whitney ...