Aretha Franklin

Detroit-raised singer, the daughter of a prominent Baptist preacher, who brought the gospel church she grew up singing in directly into secular soul music and became its defining voice — 18 Grammys, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a catalog that never fully left the church even at its most secular. In January 1972, at the height of her pop and R&B fame, she went back: two nights at a Los Angeles church, backed by a gospel choir, recorded as *Amazing Grace* — still the best-selling live gospel album ever made.