New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival shows are about both bounce music and gospel. Here's when you can see them.

Aretha Franklin made chart history with her 1987 collaboration, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", with pop icon George ...

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When soul music emerged in the 1960s, it aimed to be a method of storytelling around which a community could be formed. With ‘Green Eyes’, Badu carried on that root idea and tradition, though she ...

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The mother of ‘Precious' actress Gabourey Sidibe spent 30 years as an underground performer before hitting it big on ‘America’s Got Talent.’ ...

Her father was a Pentecostal minister, and her mother taught her gospel songs at a very young age ... and she took a lot of inspiration from singers like Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald after ...

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Gospel musicians also felt like the guy has come to change the scene. People were doing all sort of things. They took my album to places; people took it to cemeteries,” he told Roselyn Felli.

Franklin's soaring vocals have had a towering influence on American soul and pop music that is still heard today. Looking to build the essential Aretha playlist? These 20 songs are a must.

From the gospel roots of CeCe Winans to the Motown reign of Diana Ross and the soul-stirring voice of Aretha Franklin, the city has given the world icons whose influence stretches across generations.