“They want to hear you sing,” says Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker) to his 10-year-old daughter Aretha (Skye Dakota Turner). And she did. Eventually singing herself into 25 Grammys, a posthumously ...

As a child, Aretha "Re" Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner) lives with her domineering father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker), in Detroit, along with her siblings and their grandmother, Mama ...

It has not been an easy year for theater lovers, who have mostly made do with well-filmed performances of shows like “Hamilton” and “David Byrne’s American Utopia.” In contrast to those projects, ...

The Oscar-winner and powerhouse singer opens up about the role of a lifetime, portraying her idol in the highly anticipated upcoming biopic Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large at PEOPLE and host of ...

Detroit’s rich musical history and talent spans a range of genres, and Detroiters will have the opportunity to experience two of them combined Wednesday with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s world ...

A nagging question lingers while watching Respect, director Liesl Tommy’s glossy new Aretha Franklin movie: Is it even possible to break free from the rote hallmarks of the music biopic anymore? The ...

Jennifer Hudson stars as Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige as Dinah Washington in Respect. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The saga of a tortured singer fighting to survive overwhelming career odds ...

Respect (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Liesl Tommy and starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Heather Headley, Kimberly Scott, ...

A few years after she divorced her first husband in 1969, Franklin met actor Glynn Turman backstage at a show in California. According to the actor, he was there with his friend/ high school classmate ...

*Aretha Franklin is an internationally adored American icon. It is a shame that her layered and complicated story was not brought to screens, big or small, within her lifetime…though the blame for ...

It has not been an easy year for theater lovers, who have mostly made do with well-filmed performances of shows like “Hamilton” and “David Byrne’s American Utopia.” In contrast to those projects, ...