To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. “You know, I didn’t realize how much of an ...

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 ...

A riveting trailer for the upcoming Aretha Franklin documentary, Amazing Grace, was released this week and shows the soul songstress in perfect form. The documentary follows the story leading up to a ...

The Victoria edition of Tower of Song, held at the McPherson Playhouse on November 8, offered some truly remarkable interpretations of the music of Leonard Cohen. The most daring take on any of ...

Alexander Hamilton, who died Jan. 28 at age 77, was a conductor and arranger who was able to add “movie star” to his credits in the last years of his life. His work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1972 “Amazing ...

But there’s a shot of Aretha Franklin in “Amazing Grace” that might be the greatest image of a black woman that I’ve ever seen in an American movie. It’s just a medium close-up, straight on, of her at ...

When “Amazing Grace,” the long-awaited documentary of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 gospel performance premiered to sold-out audiences in November 2018, first in New York and then Los Angeles, the reception ...