Whether it’s a raucous ability to play drums drums, the mind-boggling detail of a supreme guitar player or in the case of Aretha Franklin, a voice that can soar to the heights of greatness. A ...

Alvin Franklin, a guard on the University of Houston’s Phi Slama Jama teams of the early 1980s, died over the weekend. He was 62. Franklin had been in declining health and had suffered a ...

With nearly six decades in the music business, Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and songwriter known for chart-topping hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools.” Franklin grew up ...