The 12th (or 13th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Encounters with the Queen of Soul, Daveed Diggs, and the ghost of Jackie Wilson

‘I celebrate having been a witness to her life, and mourn her passing because she was special, and we may not see her equal again’

The ‘Queen of Soul’ was a favorite of producers from the Bomb Squad to Kanye West

The Voice covered many aspects of Aretha Franklin’s remarkable career, and below we reprint a pair of reviews separated by two decades

The legendary American r&b singer dies at the age of 76