SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Aretha Franklin may be known for her Motown roots, but it's her Los Angeles connection that led to her bestselling album. Franklin's "Amazing Grace" album was recorded live ...

Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the singer’s 1972 gospel album, is subject of more legal issues. The film, which was mired in limbo for 46 years as a result of ...

Aretha Franklin recorded her album “Amazing Grace” live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South LA in 1972. She was already a big star when she recorded it. But it became one of her most ...

There is a good chance that as you read this, you can’t name an Aretha Franklin album. Sure, you know the hits — “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Rock Steady,” “Spanish Harlem” and so many more — that ...

Aretha Franklin gets through barely the first two words of “Amazing Grace” before the audience in the Baptist Church she’s performing to are left stupefied. You can see as she quietly and without ...

A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary is finally set to premiere 46 years after it was filmed. The late soul legend, who passed away back in August at the age of 76, was captured on film by the ...

"Amazing Grace," the sixth installment of the eight-episode Genius: Aretha Franklin series, airs Tuesday on National Geographic Jen Juneau is a News and Movies Staff Writer at PEOPLE. She started at ...

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Late in 1971, some unlikely news spread among the Southern California Community Choir in Los Angeles. Aretha Franklin was coming to town to record a live gospel album in January, and 25 of its members ...

Aretha Franklin was at the peak of her career and her creative powers when her gospel album “Amazing Grace” was released in 1972. (It sold more than two million copies and became her best-selling ...