Sam Smith remembers how Celine Dion‘s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” got them through a tough time. “I went through a breakup, and I actually went into a forest and listened to this in my earphones and screamed at the top of my lungs,” the singer-songwriter tells Rolling …
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Aretha Franklin’s niece, Sabrina Owens, has resigned as executor of the late soul singer’s estate amid mounting family tensions, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owens announced her decision in court filings last week, writing: “Given my aunt’s love of family and desire for privacy, this is not what she would …
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Hours after Gladys Knight reportedly revealed that she is battling pancreatic cancer –the same disease that struck her late friend and fellow soul legend Aretha Franklin – Knight’s publicist denied that the singer has cancer. WDIV, a local television station in Detroit, Michigan, reported that Knight said she had “the …
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Hundreds of Aretha Franklin fans gathered Tuesday morning to honor the late soul icon, who died from pancreatic cancer earlier this month at age 76. A public visitation began Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Franklin’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan. The singer’s body was displayed …
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Gloria Estefan praised Aretha Franklin as the ultimate inspiration for any girl aspiring to sing, or any fan that wanted to appreciate a true master of their craft. Franklin died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at age 76. In a note on Instagram, Estefan said of her VH1 Divas partner, “For …
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