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Leadership at the Drive-In
I did not expect to learn about leadership at the drive-in movie. Last night I made my popcorn, grabbed a pillow, and headed to the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop Drive-in to pay my respects (get it?) to Aretha Franklin. Jennifer Hudson is Aretha Franklin in the film, Respect, a biographical film based on the life of the incomparable Aretha Franklin. This is a story of Aretha Franklin’s long and sometimes painful journey to becoming the Queen of Soul. It provides a look into her strong leadership capabilities demonstrated as she overcomes racism, discrimination, and physical and mental abuse, all in her quest for finding her voice and her crown as the Queen of Soul, and the most influential female vocalist of the 1960s.
Aretha Franklin Had a Dream and a Goal
Aretha Franklin faced hate, discrimination, abuse, and even exploitation, yet pulled herself through it with confidence, conviction, passion, determination, and leveraged her strengths and the strengths of others around her to become her best. She stuck to her values and stood up for what she believed in, when black women were not….well, respected. As a child, Ms. Franklin aspired to be a singer. She was asked to entertain family, friends, and her congregation. But just having talent is not enough. It takes a delicate blend of finding the right people, in the right place, and the right time to create something legendary and unleash potential.
The Wrong Environment Restricts Franklin’s Success
People can have the right skills, the willingness, and the desire to succeed, but the wrong work environment can limit performance and restrict potential. This happened early in Franklin’s career. She was driven, had the skill and the willingness to be great, but she could not thrive because of the work environment.
Her first producer, John Hammond, tried to create the right work environment to set Franklin up for success, but it could have been better. He pushed her into the jazz-blues genre, which limited Franklin’s creative freedom and slowed the discovery of her style, voice, passion, and energy. Despite working with top musicians, songwriters, and producers -- something was missing for Franklin; she didn’t know what it was. Hammond did not effectively facilitate her discovery of what excellence is for Franklin, and as a result, did not bring out her potential.
The work environment was missing something. She worked in a big and beautiful New York City Studio, surrounded by upwards of 50 talented musicians, yet stayed in a tiny glass recording booth taking instructions from Hammond. She was surrounded by friends and family, including a stubborn father that had his own biases, beliefs, and agenda – and an abusive husband that created tension and anxiety for those around him. For the first nine years of her career, she was in this creatively restrictive environment. The studio was too big, too stodgy, uncomfortable, and not conducive to her success. This work environment inhibited her performance and success so much, that after six albums, Franklin had to pay money to her record label because of lower-than-expected sales.
Insightful Leaders Create the Right Environment
Ms. Franklin required something different. Not knowing what it was, she moved to a new producer and a new record label. She connected with producer, Jerry Wexler, a white Jewish male… vastly and diversely different than Franklin. He hypothesized Franklin needed to be in a smaller rural studio, with a small core team of musicians. Guess what. He was correct.
He took the Memphis-born, and Detroit-raised gospel singer under his wing and shuffled her away from New York and to a small studio along the Tennessee River in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Wexler, recognizing the untapped talent and potential in Franklin, was committed to unleashing it. The environment he created defined Aretha Franklin as we know today and helped to define the music of the 1970s. He introduced her to a small group of studio musicians, The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, creating the right blend of people, in the right place, and at the right time. He crossed the boundaries of gender, race, and social norms during the Civil Rights Movement, and facilitated the creation of something legendary and magical. Wexler, with his innovative leadership, openness to diverse ideas and opinions, would become one of the most legendary music producers and music influencers of the 50s to 80s.
Franklin Thrives as a Leader in the Right Environment
In the environment Wexler created, Franklin is seated at the piano and takes control of the studio session. Although her husband creates initial racial tension, he eventually backs away allowing Franklin to lead the studio sessions. Previously, she is trapped in a recording booth in New York, surrounded by producers giving her demands, and unable to fully become immersed in the musical developmental experience. Now, the environment is different and it works.
Feeling comfortable and in control at her piano, Franklin displays strong leadership skills. She shares her music, thoughts, ideas, and perspectives with the group of all-white studio musicians, The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and her new producer. She creates a comfortable and collaborative environment by confidently providing direction, feedback, praise, and critique to her newfound musical colleagues. She gets to know them, explores their talents and strengths, and pushes and inspires them to become better than they are as individuals. She appeals and flexes to their different communication styles, and over time, they congeal and define a new genre of music. All during a time of racial tension amidst the Civil Rights Movement.
Under Franklin’s and Wexler’s leadership and mentorship, the musicians create the legendary sound that defines Aretha Franklin. They create and record songs like, Respect, (You Make Me Feel) a Natural Woman, Chain of Fools, and I Say a Little Prayer. This earns Ms. Franklin the title, the Queen of Soul.
Pulling it All Together
Aretha Franklin overcame significant challenges on her journey to become legendary. She embraced her core values of faith, courage, determination, and persistence. As a Civil Rights Activist, she stood up for herself and the black community until her untimely death in 2017. She touched the lives of so many, selling over 75 Million albums with 44 Grammy Award Nominations and 18 Grammy Awards. She was driven to become her best, and throughout her career, demonstrated the leadership to inspire others, tear down cultural divides, provide clear communication and feedback, all to help others to become their better best. For this, we RESPECT you, Aretha Franklin.
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There is only one QUEEN OF SOUL! Discover why Aretha Franklin garners so much R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Aretha Franklin was a musical and cultural icon whose legacy spanned six decades! Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, Aretha got her start singing in front of her father’s Baptist congregation and found minor success as a gospel singer. She […]
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Owner of Aretha Franklin birthplace ready to protect her stake as plans proceed
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Owner of Aretha Franklin birthplace ready to protect her stake as plans proceed.
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"Efforts to preserve and renovate Aretha Franklin's Memphis birthplace are heating up in the wake of the Queen of Soul's death, with the home's current owner saying she will be in court Tuesday to make sure her interests are protected.
Vera Lee House for about 30 years has owned the dilapidated 1920s clapboard cottage where Franklin was born. She said through a spokeswoman Monday that her and her family's interests will not be overlooked as plans for making the house a shrine to Franklin's legacy move forward.
Rogers and members of House's family are expected to attend an Environmental Court hearing set for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The hearing was already scheduled prior to Franklin's Aug. 16 death in Detroit.
Environmental Court has been overseeing efforts to preserve the South Memphis property at 406 Lucy Ave. since 2012, when it was declared a public nuisance because of rotting floors and a collapsing roof. Retired Judge Larry Potter saved it from the wrecking ball amid competing plans for how to honor Franklin.
Franklin's connection to the house was slim — she was born there on March 25, 1942, but her family moved to Detroit when she was 2 years old. Franklin did in later years, however, become involved in efforts to preserve the home.
Rogers said House — who at one point submitted a plan to make the home the headquarters of WLRM-AM 1380, a small blues and soul radio station — wants the home to remain in its current location regardless of how it is used. House also would like to see Lucy Avenue renamed Aretha Franklin Avenue.
Other proposals have floated the idea of moving the home, perhaps closer to the Stax Museum in Soulsville, and making it a tourist attraction there.
Judge Potter put the property into receivership and named Jeffrey Higgs of South Memphis Renewal Community Corp. the receiver.
Higgs could not immediately be reached Monday about Rogers' comment, but he said following Franklin's death that those seeking to restore the home are "in a pretty good position to move forward."
He said untangling ownership issues was among the problems that have slowed plans for the home's future, but that grant money has been secured and a plan is in place that he cannot yet discuss.
The only visible signs of progress at the house so far are a fence that was erected to secure the property and a historical marker noting the home's significance.
One issue House, who now lives the next street over from Lucy on Simpson Avenue, faces in preserving her interest in the property is paying property taxes. Rogers said just under $1,200 is owed, and a fundraising effort is afoot to raise the money. Rogers said she will bring some of the money to court Tuesday and ask for time to raise the remainder.
Mildred House, one of 12 children Vera House raised at the Lucy Avenue home, said her family is eager to see Franklin's Memphis heritage preserved as long as her family's voice is part of the process.
"We think it'll be good for Memphis, Tennessee," House said. "But it's also ours. We think this can be part of something great."
Added Rogers, "Everybody has their own agenda. This is going to be a long process, but we just want to make sure these folks (the House family) are respected."" (visit link)
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DETROIT (AP) — To the rest of the world, she was the "Queen of Soul" — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.
To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply "Aretha" or more personally "Ree-Ree" — the city's favorite daughter, often singing at the Baptist church her father once led or headlining charity functions for kids or the less fortunate.
"She was a pioneer woman for Detroit," said Myron Pullin, fighting back tears Thursday morning outside New Bethel Baptist Church after learning of Franklin's death from pancreatic cancer.
"It really hurt my heart. I wanted to cry," Pullin, 56, added beneath somber, gray and swollen clouds. "Her music touches you, but her voice. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, they're beautiful singers, but to me, Aretha just stood out differently from all of them."
Franklin, who died at her home in Detroit, had moved to the city from Tennessee as a young child.
"She was just special and she always came home and she always gave back," Pullin said. "She really, really always loved Detroit."
The feeling was mutual. Franklin is so beloved in Detroit that not one, but two streets bear her name.
"Few people in the history of our city have been as universally loved or left as indelible a mark as Aretha," Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement. "From the time her father gave Aretha her start in the New Bethel choir, it was clear to everyone how special she was. She was a performer without peers. Throughout her extraordinary life and career, she earned the love — and yes, the respect — of millions of people, not just for herself and for women everywhere, but for the city she loved so dearly and called home."
In 2010, she and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed a duet at Philadelphia's Mann Music Center to raise money for urban children and awareness for music and the arts. "It is a joint effort for the inner-city youth of Philadelphia and Detroit," Franklin said at the time.
She also worked with the United Negro College Fund and in 2005 held a party in the Detroit area for dozens of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
"Detroiters realize how deeply I appreciate the city in which I was raised," Franklin wrote in her 1999 autobiography, "Aretha: From These Roots."
She continued, "And it is in Detroit that I continue to cultivate my career; it is to Detroit that I direct most of my charitable activities; and it is from Detroit that I receive much love and support, which I reciprocate."
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the lone surviving original member of the Four Tops, told the AP earlier in the week about a recent conversation they had about the city.
"She was telling me she rides around the city every now and then — she talks about how beautiful it is again," Fakir said.
Lisa McCall, whose quarter-century career working with Franklin started at age 12 as a dancer and continued for many years as her main choreographer, said Franklin was loyal to her "camp," many of whom were from Detroit. They had a two-hour conversation when McCall was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, and another heart-to-heart came more recently.
"She heard I was ill and she called me — she gave me hope and inspired me," McCall said Thursday, adding that she still has the card that came with a bouquet of flowers Franklin had sent. "Then, last year in the dressing room she said, 'Lisa, you've been through this — I hope I come out on top like you.' ... I knew what she meant."
McCall said Franklin was an inspiration both personally and professionally. The singer trusted the choreographer to assemble the team of dancers and make sure they were ready to perform at venues across the country.
"I think that's why I always hire Detroit artists — because of Aretha. She kept Detroit artists working," McCall said. "She always gave opportunities to Detroiters ... because she said we have great talent.
"She's Detroit's queen — she's our queen," McCall added. "She belongs to us."
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Aretha Franklin may have left her humble Memphis, Tennessee roots when she was barely two years old, but the city is nevertheless desperate to save its small connection to the “Queen of Soul.". In 1942, Franklin was born in this tiny wooden home, but her family left Memphis about two years later. Now, the Memphis mayor's office is trying to save the dilapidated structure, left vacant for years, to preserve it as a landmark. A group from the mayor's office is seeking funding sources to assist in the preservation and future use of the historic home.
[#instagram: A post shared by Kon (@konradstagram) on May 28, 2017 at 8:20am PDT]
Franklin isn't the only star whose childhood home has been deemed unworthy of being landmarks. Plenty of stars homes, living and deceased, have not received official landmark status. Below, we visit the places where some of the most famous faces in Hollywood grew up—and the hometowns that should consider following in Memphis's footsteps.
[#instagram: A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on May 3, 2017 at 4:58pm PDT]
MADONNA
These days, Madonna's permanent residences are in London and New York—but the pop star grew up in flyover country. Madonna Louise Ciccone lived in a two-storey brick Colonial in Rochester Hills, Michigan (about 30 minutes outside Detroit) with her parents and seven siblings until she was 18. Her father and stepmother moved out in July 2001, selling the home for $270,000, but in 2008 the home burned down, reportedly due to arson. It later sold partial state for $91,700 in 2012. The property still attracts hordes of tourists to this day, despite the home not being in its original condition.
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FARRAH FAWCETT
Famous for her feathered blond hair and a starring role on “Charlie's Angels,” Farrah Fawcett got her start in Texas. Before heading to Hollywood, Fawcett lived with her parents (her father was an oil man) in this 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom house in Corpus Christi, Texas. After her 2009 death, the actress's childhood home was remodeled with new paint, tile, carpeting, lighting, and bathroom fixtures before being listed for $215,000.
MARLON BRANDO
This five-bedroom, four-bathroom frame house in Omaha, Nebraska is where legendary actor Marlon Brando grew up with his father (a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer) mother, and two older sisters. (Fun fact: After winning an Oscar in 1973, Brando returned to the house and shocked the new owners by asking for a tour.) Public records show the 4,119-square-foot home was built in 1900 and while it has been updated, and though it now includes a pool, it's yet to be landmarked.
MICHAEL JACKSON
The Jackson family's Gary, Indiana residence was The King of Pop's first home. And while the house has long been part of the history of Michael and the Jackson Five's rise from poverty to international fame, the tiny 672-square-foot, 2-bedroom, 1-bath house (which housed 11 people) has never been made a historic landmark. The property is reportedly still owned by the family.
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JANIS JOPLIN
Oh lord won't you buy me … a music legend's childhood home? In the 1940s and 1950s, Janis Joplin grew up in this Port Arthur, Texas, house. She even carved her first name into the floor of the garage in the 1,450-square-foot, 5-bedroom residence. Though the homeowners did contact the Museum of the Gulf Coast about acquiring the house, the museum declined. It went on the market last year for $500,000.
KURT COBAIN
In one of the rare cases of preserved childhood homes, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain's Aberdeen, Washington home is pretty much in the same condition as when he lived there. From the flowered wallpaper and shag carpeting to the linoleum floors and yellow Formica kitchen counters, the grunge icon's mother Wendy O'Connor didn't remodel after the musician died in 1994. Many hope the home does eventually become a tribute museum as thousands visit the nearby Kurt Cobain Memorial Park annually.
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BARACK OBAMA
Other than the four years he spent living in Indonesia between 1967 and 1971, President Barack Obama was raised primarily in Honolulu, Hawaii. Though he and his family lived in multiple houses there, Obama's first boyhood home was a pale yellow bungalow on Kalaniana'ole Highway in Makiki. The current owners bought the house without ever knowing the 44th president of the United States lived there, and, though it's not a historical site, they say many people come by to photograph the residence.
[#instagram: A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Oct 30, 2016 at 12:33am PDT]
JENNIFER LOPEZ
She started out as "Jenny From the Block", but musician and actress Jennifer Lopez went on to be one of the most famous names in Hollywood. The block where she started out was Blackrock Avenue in the Bronx, New York in a 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom townhouse in the Castlerock neighbourhood. Her family sold the house in 1999—the year “If You Had My Love” was released and hit the Billboard Hot 100. Though fireworks set the home ablaze in 2003, it was eventually fixed and resold.
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August 17, 2018 – August 22, 2018\nPortrait Gallery\nThe Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of acclaimed singer and musician Aretha Franklin.... Learn more
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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of acclaimed singer and musician Aretha Franklin.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, Aretha Franklin influenced the course of American soul and pop music. With her signature voice—unmistakably familiar for its depth, range and emotional power—Franklin rose to prominence on the American music scene after her first commercial success in the late 1960s. Merging her childhood interests in gospel singing—both of her parents were gospel singers and her father was a renowned preacher—with jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music, Franklin came to be known as the “Queen of Soul,” belting out a string of early number-one hits, including “Respect” (1967) and “Since You’ve Been Gone” (1968).
Considered to be one of the greatest singers of her generation, Franklin is the winner of 18 Grammy Awards and was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987). In 2015, the National Portrait Gallery honored Franklin with the Portrait of a Nation Prize, timed with her celebrated performance at the inaugural American Portrait Gala for which she performed several of her hits, including “Respect,” “Freedom” and “Chain of Fools.”
In this poster, legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser uses his characteristic kaleidoscope palette and innovative geometric forms to conveys the creative energy of Franklin’s performances. This color lithographic poster was created in 1968, the same year the National Portrait Gallery opened its doors to the public.
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This is the home in which Aretha Franklin was born on March 25, 1942. The tumbledown house is located at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, in a depressed neighborhood in the southwest part of the city. Efforts have been underway for some time to restore the historic residence.
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"Aretha" and "Queen of Soul" redirect here. For other uses, see Aretha (disambiguation) and Queen of Soul (disambiguation).
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.[2] Honored as the "Queen of Soul", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time.[3][4]
As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she was signed as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While her career did not immediately flourish, Franklin found acclaim and commercial success once she signed with Atlantic Records in 1966. She recorded albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit in the Dark (1970), Young, Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976), before experiencing problems with the record company. Franklin left Atlantic in 1979 and signed with Arista Records. Her success continued with the albums Jump to It (1982), Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), Aretha (1986) and A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998).
Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists, with over 75 million records sold worldwide.[5] She recorded 112 charted singles on the US Billboard charts, including 73 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 96 R&B entries[6] and 20 number-one R&B singles. Her best-known hits include "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Ain't No Way", "Call Me", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", "Day Dreaming", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (a duet with George Michael) and "A Rose Is Still a Rose". Aside from music, she appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.
Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career. She won 18 Grammy Awards (out of 44 nominations),[7][8] including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (1968–1975), a Grammy Awards Living Legend honor and Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1987, she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her other inductions include the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012,[9] and posthumously the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.[10] In 2019, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded her a posthumous special citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".
Early life
Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin. She was delivered at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Both Mr. and Mrs. Franklin had children from prior relationships in addition to the four children they had together. When Aretha was two, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York.[13] By the time Aretha turned five, C. L. Franklin had permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of the New Bethel Baptist Church.
The Franklins had a troubled marriage due to Mr. Franklin's infidelities, and they separated in 1948. At that time, Barbara Franklin returned to Buffalo with Aretha's half-brother, Vaughn. After the separation, Aretha recalled seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, and Barbara Franklin frequently visited her children in Detroit. Aretha's mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, before Aretha's 10th birthday. Several women, including Aretha's grandmother, Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson, took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Aretha learned how to play piano by ear. She also attended public school in Detroit, going through her first year at Northern High School, but dropping out during her second year.[21]
Aretha's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in his being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice". He earned thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. His fame led to his home being visited by various celebrities. Among the visitors were gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland, and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke all became friends of C. L. Franklin, as well.[24] Ward was romantically involved with Aretha's father from around 1949 until Ward's death in 1973, though Aretha "preferred to view them strictly as friends". Ward also served as a role model to the young Aretha.[28]
Musical career
1952–1960: Beginnings
Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel Baptist Church, debuting with the hymn "Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me".[29] When Franklin was 12, her father began managing her; he would take her on the road with him, during his "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches. He also helped her sign her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records. Franklin was featured on vocals and piano.[31] In 1956, J.V.B. released Franklin's first single, "Never Grow Old", backed with "You Grow Closer". "Precious Lord (Part One)" backed with "Precious Lord (Part Two)" followed in 1959. These four tracks, with the addition of "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", were released on side one of the 1956 album, Spirituals. This was reissued by Battle Records in 1962, under the same title.[32] In 1965, Checker Records released Songs of Faith, featuring the five tracks from the 1956 Spirituals album, with the addition of four previously unreleased recordings. Aretha was only 14 when Songs of Faith was recorded.[33]
During this time, Franklin would occasionally travel with the Soul Stirrers. As a young gospel singer, Franklin spent summers on the gospel circuit in Chicago and stayed with Mavis Staples' family.[35] According to music producer Quincy Jones, while Franklin was still young, Dinah Washington let him know that "Aretha was the 'next one'".[36] Franklin and her father traveled to California, where she met singer Sam Cooke. At the age of 16, Franklin went on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and she would ultimately sing at his funeral in 1968.[38] Other influences in her youth included Marvin Gaye (who was a boyfriend of her sister), as well as Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, "two of Franklin's greatest influences".[39] Also important was James Cleveland, known as the King of Gospel music, "who helped to focus her early career as a gospel singer"; Cleveland had been recruited by her father as a pianist for the Southern California Community Choir.[40][41]
1960–1966: Columbia years
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke in recording pop music, and moved to New York. Serving as her manager, C. L. Franklin agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960, as a "five-percent artist". During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to sign her with his label, RCA Victor, but she had already decided to go with Columbia.[33] Berry Gordy had also asked Franklin and her elder sister Erma to sign with his Tamla label, but C.L. Franklin turned Gordy down, as he felt Tamla was not yet an established label.[43] Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sing the Blues",[44] was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top 10 of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.[45]
In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, "Won't Be Long", which also peaked at number 7 on the R&B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her performing in diverse genres, such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first with her hit-single rendition of the standard "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody".[47] By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a "new-star female vocalist" in DownBeat magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin,[49][50] the latter of which reached number 69 on the Billboard chart.[51]
In the 1960s, during a performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, WVON radio personality Pervis Spann announced that Franklin should be crowned "the Queen of Soul".[52][35] Spann ceremonially placed a crown on her head.[53] By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top 10 on the R&B chart with the ballad "Runnin' Out of Fools", in early 1965. She had two R&B charted singles in 1965 and 1966, with the songs "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", while also reaching the Easy Listening charts with the ballads "You Made Me Love You" and "(No, No) I'm Losing You". By the mid-1960s, Franklin was making $100,000 per year from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, she appeared on rock-and-roll shows, such as Hollywood a Go-Go and Shindig! However, she struggled with commercial success while at Columbia. Label executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her period there.[44]
1966–1979: Atlantic years
In November 1966, Franklin's Columbia recording contract expired; at that time, she owed the company money because record sales had not met expectations.[54] Producer Jerry Wexler convinced her to move to Atlantic Records.[55][56] Wexler decided that he wanted to take advantage of her gospel background; his philosophy in general was to encourage a "tenacious form of rhythm & blues that became increasingly identified as soul".[41] The Atlantic days would lead to a series of hits for Aretha Franklin from 1967 to early 1972; her rapport with Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of her peak recordings with Atlantic. The next seven years' achievements were less impressive. However, according to Rolling Stone, "they weren't as terrible as some claimed, they were pro forma and never reached for new heights".[57]
In January 1967, Franklin traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record at FAME Studios and recorded the song "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Franklin only spent one day recording at FAME, as an altercation broke out between her manager and husband Ted White, studio owner Rick Hall, and a horn player, and sessions were abandoned.[44][58] The song was released the following month and reached number one on the R&B chart, while also peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top-ten pop single. The song's B-side, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", reached the R&B top 40, peaking at number 37. "Respect" was Otis Redding's song but Aretha modified it with a "supercharged interlude featuring the emphatic spelling-out of the song's title".[40] Her frenetic version was released in April and reached number one on both the R&B and pop charts. "Respect" became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem.[44][59] Upon hearing her version, Otis Redding said admiringly: "That little girl done took my song away from me."[60] Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. According to National Geographic, this recording "would catapult Franklin to fame".[57] Franklin scored two additional top-ten singles in 1967, "Baby I Love You" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".[61]
Working with Wexler and Atlantic, Franklin had become "the most successful singer in the nation" by 1968.[62] In 1968, Franklin issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of her most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.[63] On February 16, Franklin was honored with a day named for her and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King Jr., who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians two months before his death. Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in late April/May 1968, including an appearance at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam,[67] where she played to a near-hysterical audience who covered the stage with flower petals.[68] She performed two concerts in London, at the Finsbury Park Astoria and the Hammersmith Odeon on May 11 and May 12.[69] In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine in a portrait illustration by Boris Chaliapin.[70]
In March 1969, Franklin was unanimously voted winner of Académie du Jazz's R&B award, Prix Otis Redding, for her albums Lady Soul, Aretha Now, and Aretha in Paris.[71] That year, Franklin was the subject of a criminal impersonation scheme. Another woman performed at several Florida venues under the name Aretha Franklin. Suspicion was drawn when the fake Franklin charged only a fraction of the expected rate to perform. Franklin's lawyers contacted Florida authorities and uncovered a coercive scheme in which the singer, Vickie Jones, had been threatened with violence and constrained into impersonating her idol, whom she resembled closely both in voice and looks.[72] After being cleared of wrongdoing, Jones subsequently enjoyed a brief career of her own, during which she was herself the subject of an impersonation.
Franklin's success further expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded the multi-week R&B number one "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", as well as the top-ten singles "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", and "Day Dreaming". Some of these releases were from the acclaimed albums Spirit in the Dark (released in August 1970, in which month she again performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon)[73] and Young, Gifted and Black (released in early 1972). In 1971, Franklin became the first R&B performer to headline Fillmore West, later that year releasing the live album Aretha Live at Fillmore West.[74]
In January 1972, she returned to Gospel music in a two-night, live-church recording, with the album Amazing Grace, in which she reinterpreted standards such as Mahalia Jackson's "How I Got Over".[75] Originally released in June 1972, Amazing Grace sold more than two million copies,[76] and is one of bestselling gospel albums of all time.[77] The live performances were filmed for a concert film directed by Sydney Pollack, but due to synching problems and Franklin's own attempts to prevent the film's distribution after Hollywood refused to promote a dark-skinned black woman as a movie star at the time, the film's release was only realized by producer Alan Elliott in November 2018.[78]
Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album Hey Now Hey, which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single "Angel", the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having R&B success with songs such as "Until You Come Back to Me" and "I'm in Love", but by 1975 her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. Records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film Sparkle with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top-40 hit of the decade, "Something He Can Feel", which also peaked at number one on the R&B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic, including Sweet Passion (1977), Almighty Fire (1978) and La Diva (1979), bombed on the charts, and in 1979 Franklin left the company.[79] On November 7, 1979, she guested The Mike Douglas Show with her yellow costume from her La Diva album, and sang "Ladies Only", "What If I Should Ever Need You" and "Yesterday" by the Beatles.[80]
1980–2007: Arista years
In 1980, after leaving Atlantic Records,[81] Franklin signed with Clive Davis's Arista Records.[82] "Davis was beguiling and had the golden touch", according to Rolling Stone. "If anybody could rejuvenate Franklin's puzzlingly stuck career, it was Davis."[41] Also in 1980, Franklin gave a command performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Franklin also had an acclaimed guest role as a soul food restaurant proprietor and wife of Matt "Guitar" Murphy in the 1980 comedy musical The Blues Brothers.[83][84] Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha (1980), featured the number-three R&B hit "United Together" and her Grammy-nominated cover of Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose". The follow-up, 1981's Love All the Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson, while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'". Franklin achieved a gold record—for the first time in seven years—with the 1982 album Jump to It. The album's title track was her first top-40 single on the pop charts in six years.[85] The following year, she released "Get It Right", produced by Luther Vandross.[86]
In 1985, inspired by a desire to have a "younger sound" in her music, Who's Zoomin' Who? became her first Arista album to be certified platinum. The album sold well over a million copies thanks to the hits "Freeway of Love", the title track, and "Another Night".[87] The next year's Aretha album nearly matched this success with the hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Jimmy Lee" and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", her international number-one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the TV shows A Different World and Together.[88] In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's New Bethel church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989.
In 1987, Franklin performed "America the Beautiful" at WWE's Wrestlemania III; one source states that "to this day her WrestleMania III performance might be the most memorable" of the event openers by many artists.[89] After 1988, "Franklin never again had huge hits", according to Rolling Stone.[41] The 1991 album What You See is What You Sweat flopped on the charts. She returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song "A Deeper Love" and returned to the top 40 with the song "Willing to Forgive" in 1994.[90] That recording reached number 26 on the Hot 100 and number five on the R&B chart. In 1989, Franklin filmed a music video for a remake of "Think".[91] In 1990, she sang "I Want to Be Happy", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", and "Someone Else's Eyes" at the MDA Labor Day Telethon.[92][93] In 1995, she was selected to play Aunt Em in the Apollo Theater revival of The Wiz. Franklin's final top 40 single was 1998's "A Rose Is Still a Rose". The album of the same name was released after the single. It sold over 500,000 copies, earning gold certification.[94]
That same year, Franklin received global praise after her 1998 Grammy Awards performance. She had initially been asked to perform in honor of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, in which she appeared with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. That evening, after the show had already begun, another performer, opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti became too ill to perform the aria "Nessun dorma" as planned. The show's producers, desperate to fill the time slot, approached Franklin with their dilemma. She was a friend of Pavarotti and had sung the aria two nights prior at the annual MusiCares event. She asked to hear Pavarotti's rehearsal recording, and after listening, agreed that she could sing it in the tenor range that the orchestra was prepared to play in. Over one billion people worldwide saw the performance, and she received an immediate standing ovation. She would go on to record the selection and perform it live several more times in the years to come. The last time she sang the aria live was for Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015. A small boy was so touched by her performance that he came onto the stage and embraced her while Franklin was still singing.[95][96]
Her final Arista album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful". In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Arista after more than 20 years with the label.[97] To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen in 2007.[98] In February 2006, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit.[99]
2007–2018: Final years
In 2008, Franklin issued the holiday album This Christmas, Aretha on DMI Records.[100] On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year, and performed "Never Gonna Break My Faith", which had won her the Grammy for best Gospel performance[101] the year before. Twelve years later, an unheard performance of "Never Gonna Break My Faith" was released in June 2020 to commemorate Juneteenth with a new video visualizing the American human rights movement. This caused the song to enter the Billboard gospel charts at number one, giving Franklin the distinction of having had a number one record in every decade since the 1960s. On November 18, 2008, she performed "Respect" and "Chain of Fools" at Dancing with the Stars.
On January 20, 2009, Franklin made international headlines for performing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University.[99] In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love.
In 2014, Franklin was signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and worked with Clive Davis. There were plans for her to record an album produced by Danger Mouse, who was replaced with Babyface and Don Was when Danger Mouse left the project.[102] On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Cissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of "Rolling in the Deep" was featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released in October 2014.[103] In doing so, she became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which debuted at number 47 on the chart.[104]
In December 2015, Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King, who co-wrote the song.[105][106][107] During the bridge of the song, Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation.[108][109] Dropping the coat was symbolic according to "Rolling Stone": it "echoed back to those times when gospel queens would toss their furs on top of the coffins of other gospel queens — a gesture that honored the dead but castigated death itself".[41]
She returned to Detroit's Ford Field on Thanksgiving Day 2016 to once again perform the national anthem before the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Seated behind the piano, wearing a black fur coat and Lions stocking cap, Franklin gave a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that lasted more than four minutes and featured a host of improvisations.[110] Franklin released the album A Brand New Me in November 2017 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which uses archived recordings from Franklin.[111]
While Franklin canceled some concerts in 2017 for health reasons, and during an outdoor Detroit show, she asked the audience to "keep me in your prayers", she was still garnering highly favorable reviews for her skill and showmanship.[112][113][114] At the Ravinia Festival on September 3, 2017, she gave her last full concert.[115][116] Franklin's final public performance was at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City during Elton John's 25th anniversary gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on November 7, 2017.[117]
Music style and image
According to Richie Unterberger, Franklin was "one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged".[1] She had often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience". Franklin's voice was described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice". She was praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. According to David Remnick, what "distinguishes her is not merely the breadth of her catalog or the cataract force of her vocal instrument; it's her musical intelligence, her way of singing behind the beat, of spraying a wash of notes over a single word or syllable, of constructing, moment by moment, the emotional power of a three-minute song. 'Respect' is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase."[109] Describing Franklin's voice on her first album, Songs of Faith, released in 1956 when she was just 14, Jerry Wexler explained that it "was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hierophant". Critic Randy Lewis assessed her skills as a pianist as "magic" and "inspirational". Musicians and professionals alike such as Elton John, Keith Richards, Carole King, and Clive Davis were fans of her piano performances.[121] In 2015, President Barack Obama wrote the following regarding Franklin:
Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That's why, when she sits down at a piano and sings 'A Natural Woman,' she can move me to tears—the same way that Ray Charles's version of 'America the Beautiful' will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed—because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.[122]
Activism
From her time growing up in the home of a prominent African-American preacher to the end of her life, Franklin was immersed and involved in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights. She provided money for civil rights groups, at times covering payroll, and performed at benefits and protests.[123] When Angela Davis was jailed in 1970, Franklin told Jet: "Angela Davis must go free ... Black people will be free. I've been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I'm going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she's a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people."[123] Her songs "Respect" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" became anthems of these movements for social change.[124][125] Franklin and several other American icons declined to take part in performing at President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration as a mass act of musical protest.[126] Franklin was also a strong supporter of Native American rights.[127] She quietly and without fanfare supported Indigenous peoples' struggles worldwide, and numerous movements that supported Native American and First Nation cultural rights.[127]
Personal life
Franklin moved to New York City from Detroit in the 1960s where she lived until relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino, where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintained a residence there until her death. Following an incident in 1984, she cited a fear of flying that prevented her from traveling overseas; she performed only in North America afterwards.[52] Franklin was Baptist.[128]
Franklin was the mother of four sons. She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. In one of her handwritten wills, discovered in 2019, Franklin revealed that the father was Edward Jordan.[130] On August 31, 1957, at the age of 15, Franklin had a second child fathered by Jordan, named Edward Derone Franklin after his father.[131] Franklin did not like to discuss her early pregnancies with interviewers. Both children took her family name. While Franklin was pursuing her singing career and "hanging out with [friends]", her grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising her children. Franklin would visit them often. Her third child, Ted White Jr., was born to Franklin and her husband Theodore "Ted" White in February 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts.[136] Her youngest son, Kecalf Cunningham, was born in April 1970 and is the child of her road manager Ken Cunningham.[137]
Franklin was married twice. Her first husband was Ted White, whom she married in 1961 at the age of 18.[138][139] She had actually seen White the first time at a party held at her house in 1954. After a contentious marriage that was marred by domestic abuse, Franklin separated from White in 1968 and divorced him in 1969. She married actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978, at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after she returned to Michigan from California and they divorced in 1984.
Franklin's sisters, Erma and Carolyn, were professional musicians and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Her sister Carolyn died in April 1988 from breast cancer and her eldest sister Erma died from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's half-brother Vaughn died in late 2002.[142] Her half-sister, Carol Ellan Kelley (née Jennings; 1940–2019), was C. L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a 12-year-old member of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis where C. L. was pastor.[142] Franklin's father and idol, described as "unorthodox on every level," knowingly preyed on his pre-teen congregants.[143]
Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10, 1979, when her father, C. L., was shot twice at point-blank range in his Detroit home. After six months at Henry Ford Hospital while still in a coma, C. L. was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.
Franklin had a long friendship with Willie Wilkerson, a Vietnam War veteran and Detroit firefighter, who also helped in her work and cared for her when ill.[146] In 2012 she announced plans to marry Wilkerson[147][148] but the engagement was quickly called off.[149] Franklin's music business friends included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, and Cissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Houston sang background on Franklin's hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's young daughter, Whitney Houston, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt (not a godmother as has been occasionally reported) and Whitney often referred to her as "Auntie Ree".[150] Franklin had to cancel plans to perform at Whitney Houston's memorial service on February 18, 2012, due to a leg spasm.[151] Franklin was a registered Democrat.[152][153] While her estate had been estimated at $80 million,[154] according to the New York Times, at her death it was valued at $18 million.[155]
Health
Franklin had weight issues for many years. In 1974, she lost 40 pounds (18 kg) on a very-low-calorie diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade. She again lost weight in the early 1990s, before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. She admitted in 1994 that her smoking was "messing with my voice", but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight "ballooned".
In 2010, Franklin canceled a number of concerts to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying that it would "add 15 to 20 years" to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as had been reported.[162] Franklin added, "I don't have to talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors ... The problem has been resolved". Following the surgery, Franklin lost 85 lbs.; however, she denied that she had undergone weight-loss surgery.[163] On May 19, 2011, Franklin had her comeback show at the Chicago Theatre.[164]
In May 2013, Franklin canceled two performances because of an undisclosed medical treatment.[165] Further concert cancellations followed in the summer[166][167][168] and fall.[169] During a phone interview with the Associated Press in late August 2013, Franklin stated that she had had a "miraculous" recovery from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until her health was at 100%, estimating she was about "85% healed".[170] Franklin later returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel. She launched a multi-city tour in mid-2014, starting with a performance on June 14 in New York at Radio City Music Hall.[171]
In February 2017, Franklin announced in an interview with local Detroit television anchor Evrod Cassimy, that 2017 would be her final year touring.[172] However, she scheduled some 2018 concert dates before canceling them based on her physician's advice.[122]
Death and funeral
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit.[173][174] She was under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson and former husband Glynn Turman visited her on her deathbed.[175] Franklin died at her home on August 16, 2018, aged 76.[176] She was initially thought to have died without a will.[177][178] The cause of death was a malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET),[179][180] which is distinct from the most common form of pancreatic cancer.[181][182] Numerous celebrities in the entertainment industry and politicians paid tribute to Franklin, including former U.S. President Barack Obama who said she "helped define the American experience".[183] Civil rights activist and minister Al Sharpton called her a "civil rights and humanitarian icon".[184]
A memorial service was held at her home church, New Bethel Baptist Church, on August 19.[185] Thousands then paid their respects during the public lying-in-repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.[186] The August 31 Homegoing Service held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, included multiple tributes by celebrities, politicians, friends and family members and was streamed by some news agencies[187] such as Fox News, CNN, The Word Network, BET and MSNBC.[188] Among those who paid tribute to Aretha at the service were Ariana Grande, Bill Clinton, Rev. Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Faith Hill, Fantasia, the Clark Sisters, Ronald Isley, Angie Stone, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Shirley Caesar,[189] Shirma Rouse,[190] Stevie Wonder, Eric Holder, Gladys Knight, Cedric the Entertainer, Tyler Perry, Smokey Robinson, Yolanda Adams, and Rev. Dr. William Barber II.[191][192] At Franklin's request she was eulogized by Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, as he had eulogized her father as well as speaking at other family memorials.[193] Williams's eulogy was criticized for being "a political address that described children being in a home without a father as 'abortion after birth' and said black lives do not matter unless blacks stop killing each other". Franklin's nephew Vaughan complained of Williams: "He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her."[194][195] Following a telecast procession up Seven Mile Road, Franklin was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.[196][197]
Legacy and honors
Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King,[200][201][202] and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 by then President George W. Bush. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005,[203] and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015.[204] Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. In 2019 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation "[f]or her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".[205] Franklin was the first individual woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.[206] At the beginning of her career, Siouxsie Sioux named her as her favourite female singer.[207]
In 2010 Franklin was ranked first on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"[3] and ninth on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[208] Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams.[209] That same year, she was ranked 19th among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists.[210][211]
When Rolling Stone listed the "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" in 2002 and again 2012, it listed Franklin's 1967, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, number one.[212] Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin was described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America".[214] Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014.[215] The next year, Billboard named her the greatest female R&B artist of all time.[216] In 2018, Franklin was inducted in to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
"American history wells up when Aretha sings", President Obama explained in response to her performance of "A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. "Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope."[109] Franklin later recalled the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors as one of the best nights of her life.[109] On June 8, 2017, the City of Detroit honored Franklin's legacy by renaming a portion of Madison Street, between Brush and Witherell Streets, Aretha Franklin Way.[217] The Aretha Franklin Post Office Building was named in 2021, and is located at 12711 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.[218]
Rolling Stone called Franklin "the greatest singer of her generation".[41] In April 2021, Aretha Franklin was featured in National Geographic magazine and in the previous month, the society began airing the third season of the television series Genius about her life and career.[219][220] After working with the artist for nearly four decades, Clive Davis, said that Aretha "understood the essence of both language and melody and was able to take it to a place very few—if any—could". According to National Geographic, "she was a musical genius unmatched in her range, power, and soul".[220]
Honorary degrees
Franklin received honorary degrees from Harvard University and New York University in 2014,[221] as well as honorary doctorates in music from Princeton University, 2012;[222] Yale University, 2010;[223] Brown University, 2009;[224] the University of Pennsylvania, 2007;[225] Berklee College of Music, 2006;[226] the New England Conservatory of Music, 1997;[227] and the University of Michigan, 1987.[228] She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Case Western Reserve University 2011[229] and Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Bethune–Cookman University in 1975.[230]
Tributes
After Franklin's death, fans added unofficial tributes to two New York City Subway stations: the Franklin Street station in Manhattan, served by the 1 train, and the Franklin Avenue station in Brooklyn, served by the C and S trains. Both stations were originally named after other people. Although the fan tributes were later taken down, the subway system's operator, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, placed permanent black-and-white stickers with the word "Respect" next to the "Franklin" name signs in each station.[231][232]
During the American Music Awards on October 9, 2018, the show was closed by bringing Gladys Knight, Donnie McClurkin, Ledisi, Cece Winans, and Mary Mary together to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The "all-star" group performed gospel songs, including renditions from Franklin's 1972 album, Amazing Grace.[233][234]
A tribute concert, "Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul", was organized by CBS and the Recording Academy[235] on January 13, 2019, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The concert included performances by Smokey Robinson, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Alessia Cara, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Hudson, Chloe x Halle, H.E.R., SZA, Brandi Carlile, Yolanda Adams and Shirley Caesar,[236][237] and was recorded for television, airing on March 10.[238][239]
At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, the ceremony was ended with a memorial tribute to the life and career of Franklin. The tribute concluded with a rendition of her 1968 hit, "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)", performed by Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Andra Day and Yolanda Adams.[240]
In June 2023, Aretha – A Love Letter to the Queen of Soul opened at Sydney Opera House before heading to Brisbane and Melbourne. Australian playwright, actor and screenwriter Jada Alberts directed and narrated the musical, which featured Emma Donovan, Montaigne, Thandi Phoenix, Thndo, and Ursula Yovich, along with a nine-piece band.[241]
Portrayals in media
On January 29, 2018, Gary Graff confirmed that Jennifer Hudson would play Franklin in an upcoming biopic.[242] Franklin's biopic Respect was released in August 2021 in various countries.[243][244] On February 10, 2019, it was announced that the subject of the third season of the American National Geographic anthology television series Genius would be Franklin, in the "first-ever, definitive scripted miniseries on the life of the universally acclaimed Queen of Soul".[245] The season, starring Cynthia Erivo as Franklin, was aired in March 2021. However, Franklin's family denounced the series, claiming to be uninvolved with the production process, despite the production team stating that the series had been endorsed by the Franklin estate.[246]
Discography
Main article: Aretha Franklin discography
Studio albums
Filmography
Concerts, Specials, Appearances
1967–1982: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – Guest
1968: Aretha Franklin and The Sweet Inspirations in Concert
1968: The Hollywood Palace – Guest
1969: 41st Academy Awards – Performer
1970: This is Tom Jones – Guest
1970: It's Cliff Richard – Guest – BBC
1970: It's Lulu – Guest – BBC
1978: Dick Clark's Live Wednesday – Guest – ABC
1978: Aretha Franklin Live in Canada – ITV
1978: Kennedy Center Honors – CBS
1981–1985: Solid Gold – Performer – CBS
1982: It's Not Easy Bein' Me – Guest – NBC
1983: American Music Awards of 1983 – Performer/Host – ABC
1983: Midem '83 – Performer – TF1
1985: Soundstage – Performer – PBS
1986: American Music Awards of 1986 – Performer – ABC
1988: James Brown and Friends: Set Fire To The Soul – Performer – HBO
1990: Night of 100 Stars III – Performer – NBC
1991–1992: The Joan Rivers Show – Performer – HBO
1992: 23rd Annual Grammy Awards – Performer – CBS
1992: Kennedy Center Honors -Performer – CBS
1993: Evening at Pops – Performer – PBS
Documentaries
1972: Black Rodeo (documentary)
1990: Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (documentary)
2003: Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (documentary)
2012: The Zen of Bennett (documentary)
2013: Muscle Shoals (documentary)
2018: Amazing Grace (documentary)
As an actress
1972: Room 222 (as Inez Jackson)
1980: The Blues Brothers (as Mrs. Murphy)
1991: Murphy Brown (as Herself)
1997: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (as voice of Homebuilt Computer)
1998: Blues Brothers 2000 (as Mrs. Murphy)
See also
List of awards and nominations received by Aretha Franklin
Citations
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Singer Born March 25, 1942 in Memphis, TN
Aretha Franklin is one of the most influential singers in pop music history, bringing soul to a wide audience and accumulating platinum-selling hits and 18 Grammys. She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Franklin grew up in Detroit, the daughter of Reverend C.L. Franklin, a gospel singer and preacher. She was only 6 when her mother, Barbara, left the family (dying four years later). Aretha sang regularly at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church and was soon performing on the gospel circuit. Her fast-growing reputation as an exceptional gospel shouter began attracting outside attention, and Berry Gordy attempted to sign her to Motown.
While still a teenager, she gave birth to two sons, who were raised by her grandmother while Franklin focused on her singing career. She signed to Columbia and moved to New York, finding R&B success with her records in the early 1960s, but little crossover pop attention. She moved to Atlantic Records in 1966 and the next year released the album âI Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You,â a hugely influential collection that tapped into her gospel roots and yielded the hit single âRespect,â which topped the pop chart. Her version of the Otis Redding song was awarded two Grammys and became an anthem of the feminist movement.
The hits and Grammys continued throughout the decade and into the early 1970s, further establishing her as the âQueen of Soul.â Top 10 hits included â(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,â âChain of Foolsâ and âUntil You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do).â
Though she enjoyed a No. 1 R&B hit in 1976 with âSomething He Can Feel,â written by Curtis Mayfield, her hit-making streak began to falter by the mid-'70s, as disco became a dominant force in popular music. In 1979, her father was shot in a robbery and slipped into a coma until his death in 1984.
She performed âThinkâ on screen in âThe Blues Brothersâ movie in 1980, marking the beginning of renewed public awareness for the singer. She signed to Arista and in 1981 recorded a duet with George Benson, âLove All The Hurt Away,â reaching No. 6 on the R&B chart.
Her 1982 album, âJump to It,â was produced by Luther Vandross and was called a comeback, reaching No. 1 on the R&B chart. The title song also reached the top 40 of the pop singles chart. They collaborated again on âGet It Rightâ the next year to disappointing results.
Aretha moved back to Detroit in 1984, and soon another career peak came in the form of 1985's âWho's Zoomin' Who?,â which included the No. 3 pop (and No. 1 R&B) single âFreeway of Love.â The album featured guest appearances by the likes of Clarence Clemons, Dizzy Gillespie and Carlos Santana, and she found herself in regular rotation for a new generation on MTV. Her next album, 1986's âAretha,â included a cover of âJumpin' Jack Flashâ produced by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. The next year, she released a Grammy-winning duet with George Michael, âI Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).â
She published an autobiography, âAretha: From These Roots,â in 1999. Franklin performed at the inauguration of President Obama on Jan. 20, 2009, and drew as much attention for her hat as her reading of âMy Country, 'Tis of Thee.â The hat is now in the Smithsonian.
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She was born in Memphis, and during her earliest visits to Nashville, Aretha Franklin would light up the famed R&B clubs of Jefferson Street.
Half a century later, the "Queen of Soul" would play her final Nashville shows at the city's most prestigious venues and events: the Swan Ball and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
The epic musical journey of Franklin — who died Thursday at age 76 — included many intersections with Music City over the years. In addition to concerts and award ceremonies, she recorded a handful of country songs and would prove to be an immeasurable influence on some of the genre's most celebrated vocalists.
Raised on an eclectic musical diet of gospel, R&B, classical and jazz, she blossomed out of her father's Detroit church to become the most distinguished black female artist of all time, breaking boundaries while placing nearly 100 hits on Billboard’s R&B chart — 20 of them reaching No. 1.
The Queen of Soul, as she was crownd in the 1960s, leaves a sprawling legacy of classic songs that includes "Respect," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Think" and "Freeway of Love," along with a best-selling gospel catalog.
Her death follows several years of painstakingly concealed medical issues, which led to regular show cancellations and extended absences from the public eye.
A family statement released by her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn said "Franklin's official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute" in Detroit.
Memphis roots
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis. Two years later, her family would move to Detroit, where she began singing at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church. Her childhood home and birthplace in Memphis — a 1920s "clapboard cottage" — is still standing at 406 Lucy in South Memphis.
In the hours after Franklin's death, visitors came to the house to write tributes on the boards that covered up its windows.
"It's like a part of Memphis is dying," local resident Erica Qualy told The Commercial Appeal, leaving a purple bouquet at the door.
Jefferson Street
In 1960, Franklin made the jump from gospel to secular music, and her earliest years as an R&B singer included visits to Nashville's Jefferson Street. There was even a four-night run at The New Era Club, which she recalled during a late-night interview with The Tennessean in 1971.
Reporter Jack Hurst caught up with Franklin at the King of the Road Motel, "just before she punched the button for the elevator," he wrote.
"I like Nashville," she said. "It's a beautiful town. Nice climate."
Franklin was in town that year to headline a benefit concert for Fisk University, which she deemed a "terribly worthy cause."
The Nashville Grammys
Two years later in 1973, when the Grammy Awards were held in Nashville for the first and only time, Franklin was among the stars in attendance.
She presented an award at the Tennessee Theatre during the CBS telecast, and picked up two awards the next morning at a "champagne breakfast" at Municipal Auditorium. Those wins — for best female R&B vocal performance and best soul gospel performance — are a small portion of her 18 career Grammys.
Country connections
In the 1960s, Franklin put a one-of-a-kind spin on several country songs. Among them was Willie Nelson's "Night Life," John Hartford's "Gentle On My Mind" and "I May Never Get to Heaven," penned by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen.
On social media, Nelson called Franklin "the greatest gift and the voice of a generation. She could turn any song into a hymn."
A few decades later, country artists were the ones covering Franklin and claiming her as an influence. Reba McEntire rocked the boat at the 1988 CMA Awards by belting out "Respect."
Faith Hill and Franklin recorded a duet for the latter's 2011 album, "A Woman Falling Out of Love," but the track was ultimately shelved. Last year, Hill and Tim McGraw opened their "Soul2Soul" tour concerts with "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)."
"The choir of angels now have the greatest voice of all time to lead, praise and join in to sing before Jesus," Hill wrote on social media Thursday.
Gospel glory
In 2012, the Nashville-based Gospel Music Association inducted Franklin into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
"Aretha most certainly brought her gospel roots into secular R&B," the hall wrote on its website, calling her "one of the finest songwriters of all time as well as one of (the) finest pianists in gospel today."
A newer Nashville institution — the National Museum of African American Music — shared its own tribute Thursday morning.
"Aretha Franklin was a true genius of American music," museum President Henry Beecher Hicks III wrote Thursday. "We hope that her journey is a peaceful one. While we look forward to celebrating her at the (museum), she will be sorely missed."
Her final Nashville performances
In 2012, Franklin performed at Nashville's Swan Ball, an annual white-tie gala known as one of the South's premier social events.
That came after two stops at the historic Ryman Auditorium in 2010 and 2011, where fans waited in the alley behind Tootsie's to catch a glimpse of the queen.
Her final Music City performance was a sold-out concert at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2015. Franklin, then 73, proudly proclaimed it was her 60th year in the music business, and treated an ecstatic crowd to a 90-minute set that featured “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” "Freeway of Love" and, finally, "Respect."
"She can still fill every inch of a concert hall with her powerful voice," wrote The Tennessean's Juli Thanki.
The Detroit Free Press and Memphis Commercial Appeal contributed to this report.
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•March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in Detroit when Aretha was 2. She would call the city home for most of her life, and would always be closely associated with its massive musical legacy.
•1956 — Franklin releases her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith," recorded at her father's church when she was 14.
•1961 — Franklin marries her manager, Ted White. Their troubled eight-year union is believed to have inspired her performances on many songs.
•February 1961 — Franklin releases her first album for Columbia Records. She would have only minor hits in her six years with the label, which pushed her toward jazz and show tunes and away from her gospel roots.
•November 1966 — Franklin signs with Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler encourages her to embrace her classic soul-and-gospel sound. Several classic songs immediately followed, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."
•February 1967 — "Respect," Franklin's career-defining anthem, is recorded. The song would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. A month later it would be the opening track on her breakthrough album, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."
•June 1972 — A live gospel album, "Amazing Grace," is released amid a revival in spiritual music. It sold more than 2 million copies and is among Franklin's biggest hits.
•January 1977 — Franklin sings "God Bless America" at the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.
•June 1980 — The hit film comedy "The Blues Brothers" is released, with Franklin appearing and singing "Think" in one of the film's most popular scenes. It signaled that the 1980s would bring a career revival.
•July 1985 — "Freeway of Love" off of Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who" album, becomes her first top 10 hit in more than a decade.
•January 1987 — Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
•April 1987 — "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)," a duet with George Michael, reaches No. 1 on the pop chart.
•December 1994 — Franklin, at age 52, becomes the youngest person ever chosen for the Kennedy Center honors. In his tribute, President Bill Clinton said he and the first lady considered her among their favorite artists. "You could say that Hillary and I went to college and law school with Aretha because there was scarcely a day when we didn't listen to one of her songs," said the president.
•September 1999 — She receives the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award from President Bill Clinton, who says Franklin "brought sunshine to a rainy day and tenderness to a hardened heart."
•November 2005 — President George Bush presents her with the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.
•February 2008 — Franklin wins her last Grammy Award — her 18th — for Best Gospel Performance for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and a Living Legend awardee.
•January 2009 — Franklin sings "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
•October 2014 — Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" reaches No. 47 on Billboard's R&B chart. It's her 100th charting single, and she's the first woman to reach the milestone.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American soul and R&B singer. She was called the "Queen of Soul". She was best known for her songs "Respect", "Think", "Chain of Fools",[1] and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".
Aretha Louise Franklin was born at a two-room house in Memphis located at 406 Lucy St.[2] She was the third of four children born to Barbara (née Siggers) and C.L. Franklin and the fifth of six overall in between past relationships by her parents. Franklin's family moved to Buffalo, when Franklin was two, and then by four, had settled in Detroit. Following the move to Detroit, Franklin's parents, who had a troubled marriage, split. Due to her father's work as a Baptist minister, Franklin was primarily raised by her grandmother, Rachel. Franklin suffered a tragedy when her mother died in Buffalo when Aretha was ten. Franklin sang in church at an early age and learned how to play piano by ear. By her late preteens, Franklin was regularly singing solo numbers in her father's New Bethel Baptist Church Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine. Franklin's father, C.L. (short for Clarence LaVaughn), was a respected and popular preacher. Franklin grew up with local and national celebrities hanging out at her father's home including gospel greats Albertina Walker and her group The Caravans, Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward, three women who played a pivotal role in her vocal development as a child.
Franklin married Ted White in 1961 but divorced him in 1969. She had four sons, one of which she shares with White.[3]
Franklin was married to Glynn Turman from 1978 to 1984.[4]
In 1998, Franklin performed at that year's VH1 Divas Live concert with Céline Dion, Carole King, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, and Gloria Estefan to sing songs like "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Testify", and "You've Got a Friend in Me".[5]
Franklin is one of the most honored artists by the Grammy Awards, with 18 competitive Grammys and two honorary Grammys. She had 20 #1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart and two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967) and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with George Michael. Since 1961, she had a total of 45 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also had 14 singles that sold more than one million – more than any other female artist. Between 1967 and 1982 she had 10 #1 R&B albums – more than any other female artist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked her at top of its list "The Greatest Singers of All Time"[6] In 2005, she was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. On February 6, 2006, she performed, along with Aaron Neville, "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XL. The same year she got an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the Berklee College of Music.2010, Franklin received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Yale University.[7]
In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[8] She was the only featured singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
In 2010, Franklin underwent cancer surgery for purported pancreatic cancer.[9] In 2013, she cancelled two tours due to an unknown illness.[10]
In 2017, Franklin cancelled many concerts due to an unknown illness. She asked her fans to keep her in their prayers.[11]
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home around Detroit.[12][13][14] She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson, and others had visited her.[15] Franklin died at home in Detroit on August 16 of that year at 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer.[16][17] Business Insider reported that Franklin's net worth was $80 million at the time of her death and that she did not leave a will.[18]
In 2020, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson will play Franklin in the 2020 movie about her life titled Respect.[19]
Franklin won 20 Grammy Awards in her lifetime, including two special awards for Living Legend (1991) and Lifetime Achievement (1994).
Aretha Franklin's Grammy Award Wins # Year Category Genre Title 1 1968 Best Rhythm & Blues Recording R&B "Respect" 2 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 3 1969 "Chain of Fools" 4 1970 "Share Your Love with Me" 5 1971 "Don't Play That Song for Me" 6 1972 "Bridge over Troubled Water" 7 1973 Young, Gifted and Black 8 Best Soul Gospel Performance Gospel Amazing Grace 9 1974 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B "Master of Eyes" 10 1975 "Ain't Nothing like the Real Thing" 11 1982 "Hold On...I'm Comin'" 12 1986 "Freeway of Love" 13 1988 Aretha 14 Best R&B Performance – Duo or Group with Vocals "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"
(with George Michael) 15 1989 Best Soul Gospel Performance – Female Gospel One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism * 1991 Living Legend Award Special * 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award 16 2004 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance R&B "Wonderful" 17 2006 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance "A House Is Not a Home" 18 2008 Best Gospel-Soul Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Gospel "Never Gonna Break My Faith"
(with Mary J. Blige)
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The world may have lost one of the greatest musical artists of all time, but we have no doubt that Aretha Franklin's legacy will be honored and celebrated for years to come. You can probably belt out (or at least attempt) all of Aretha's greatest hits: "Respect," "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman," and "Think," among countless others. You may even know she began her career singing gospel at the church where her father was the minister. But do you know where the Queen of Soul's story actually began?
Born in Memphis, TN, in 1942, Aretha was the fourth child of Clarence LaVaughn and Barbara Franklin, though both had children from outside their marriage. Her father — better known as C.L. — was a preacher from Mississippi, while her mother was a talented singer and piano player. The family moved to Buffalo, NY, when Aretha was only 2, and only three years later, the family relocated to Detroit when C.L. took over the pastorship of New Bethel Baptist Church. C.L. and Barbara separated soon after, and Barbara returned to Buffalo while Aretha remained with her father. Aretha was only 10 when her mother passed away.
Soon after her mother's death, Aretha began performing at New Bethel, and her incredible talent was immediately recognized. Her father — known as the man with the "million-dollar voice" for his legendary sermons — took Aretha on the road with him to perform at churches throughout the area, and though she was enrolled at Northern High School, her burgeoning career compelled her to drop out during her sophomore year. The sacrifice paid off — by 16, Aretha was on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., later even singing at his funeral in 1968.
Years later, after she was living and earning fame as an international superstar in Los Angeles, Aretha's father was shot twice in his Detroit home, and she moved back to Detroit in 1982 to help assist with his care. Aretha then remained in Detroit until her tragic death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 76.
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The “Queen of Soul”, Aretha Louise Franklin, has died at the age of 76, according to her representative.
The US cultural icon, known for her signature song “Respect” and others, including “Think” and “I Say a Little Prayer”, passed away on Thursday at 9:50am local time from advanced pancreatic cancer in Detroit, Michigan, publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told the Associated Press.
“In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart,” Franklin’s family said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family,” the statement added.
“We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on.”
Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days, her publicist said.
Franklin was the high school dropout whose voice graced Martin Luther King Jr’s memorial service, serenaded three presidents and was deemed so precious that it was declared a natural resource in the state of Michigan.
She won 18 Grammys and had some 25 gold records in her decades-long career that started when she was just 14 years old.
Teenage debut
Franklin was born in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee, to gospel singer parents Clarence and Barbara on March 25, 1942. She was one of five siblings.
Clarence, a reverend, was largely responsible for raising her after separating from Franklin’s mother in 1948 and relocating the family to the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Four years later, her mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, fewer than three weeks before Franklin’s tenth birthday.
But tragedy would not derail her, and by 1954 Franklin had made her debut singing appearance aged 14 at her father’s place of worship, the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.
The performance would mark the beginning of a career which would go on to stretch across seven decades and see her gain both domestic and international acclaim, including becoming the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Notable hits included “Respect”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” and “I Say A Little Prayer”.
Presidential acclaim
The plaudits of her work weren’t only from within the music industry, however, and in 2005 Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-US President George W Bush.
She was connected to several holders of the US’ highest political office, having performed at an inauguration gala for Jimmy Carter in 1977 and both Bill Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s first inaugurations in 1993 and 2009 respectively.
With Obama, in particular, Franklin shared a special bond. Her performance at a concert in Washington, DC, in November 2015 famously prompted the US’ first black president to shed a tear, some seven years after Obama, then a senator, recited part of a Franklin song at a Labor Day event in her home city of Detroit.
He was, perhaps, her highest profile fan but was only one of many to be moved by her rare, four-octave ranging, voice.
Franklin’s talent brought her into contact with a number of other international figures as well, most notably in 2015 when she performed for Pope Francis during his September visit to the US.
Years in the limelight had dimmed her capacity to be overawed though, it appeared. Prior to the concert, Franklin told the New York Times she wouldn’t be fazed by performing for the head of the Catholic Church.
“I wouldn’t say anyone makes me nervous – just a tiny butterfly here and there,” she said.
A force of nature
Her effect on others, however, could be quite the opposite.
On occasions, she would resemble something akin to a force of nature to those who found themselves on the wrong side of musical royalty.
In his controversial 2014 biography of Franklin, “Respect”, noted writer David Ritz alleged the Queen of Soul was notorious on the entertainment circuit for cancelling concerts at the last minute, showing up late for performances and belittling contemporaries in the industry, as well as starting feuds with members of her own family.
Franklin denounced Ritz’s portrayal as false, suggesting the biographer had produced a “vindictive” book because the pair fell out during while working together on her official autobiography 15 years before.
Amid the allegations and denials, however, the esteem in which the generations of artists who followed Franklin held her was without doubt.
From Beyonce to Mary J Blige and Amy Winehouse to Florence Welch, her work informed and inspired, in particular, a number of female musicians performing across different genres and decades.
She was, as Rolling Stone Magazine said in 2008 when it named her the greatest singer of all time, the “reason why women want to sing”.
Recent retirement
In more recent years, Franklin battled against prolonged periods of ill-health, prompting her to announce a plan for retirement in early 2017.
Her final appearance came in November at a charity gala in New York City, organised by fellow singer Elton John, where she closed the event with a rendition of classics including “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Freeway”.
Amid decades of stardom, Franklin was conspicuously tight-lipped about her personal life. She was married and divorced twice but said little publicly about either relationship.
Forays into politics and other aspects of public life were also rare. But her seminal cover of Otis Redding’s hit, “Respect”, served as something of a rallying cry for the civil and women’s rights movements throughout the late 1960s and beyond.
“R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me,” she sang.
People across the United States and throughout the rest of the world, enraptured by her talent, listened and demanded the same.
Franklin is survived by her four sons, Clarence, Edward, Ted and Kecalf.
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DETROIT (AP) To the rest of the world, she was the Queen of Soul a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.To residents in her hometown of Detroit who
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DETROIT (AP) — To the rest of the world, she was the "Queen of Soul" — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.
To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply "Aretha" or more personally "Ree-Ree" — the city's favorite daughter, often singing at the Baptist church her father once led or headlining charity functions for kids or the less fortunate.
"She was a pioneer woman for Detroit," said Myron Pullin, fighting back tears Thursday morning outside New Bethel Baptist Church after learning of Franklin's death from pancreatic cancer.
"It really hurt my heart. I wanted to cry," Pullin, 56, added beneath somber, gray and swollen clouds. "Her music touches you, but her voice. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, they're beautiful singers, but to me, Aretha just stood out differently from all of them."
Franklin, who died at her home in Detroit, had moved to the city from Tennessee as a young child.
"She was just special and she always came home and she always gave back," Pullin said. "She really, really always loved Detroit."
The feeling was mutual. Franklin is so beloved in Detroit that not one, but two streets bear her name.
"Few people in the history of our city have been as universally loved or left as indelible a mark as Aretha," Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement. "From the time her father gave Aretha her start in the New Bethel choir, it was clear to everyone how special she was. She was a performer without peers. Throughout her extraordinary life and career, she earned the love — and yes, the respect — of millions of people, not just for herself and for women everywhere, but for the city she loved so dearly and called home."
In 2010, she and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed a duet at Philadelphia's Mann Music Center to raise money for urban children and awareness for music and the arts. "It is a joint effort for the inner-city youth of Philadelphia and Detroit," Franklin said at the time.
She also worked with the United Negro College Fund and in 2005 held a party in the Detroit area for dozens of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
"Detroiters realize how deeply I appreciate the city in which I was raised," Franklin wrote in her 1999 autobiography, "Aretha: From These Roots."
She continued, "And it is in Detroit that I continue to cultivate my career; it is to Detroit that I direct most of my charitable activities; and it is from Detroit that I receive much love and support, which I reciprocate."
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the lone surviving original member of the Four Tops, told the AP earlier in the week about a recent conversation they had about the city.
"She was telling me she rides around the city every now and then — she talks about how beautiful it is again," Fakir said.
Lisa McCall, whose quarter-century career working with Franklin started at age 12 as a dancer and continued for many years as her main choreographer, said Franklin was loyal to her "camp," many of whom were from Detroit. They had a two-hour conversation when McCall was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, and another heart-to-heart came more recently.
"She heard I was ill and she called me — she gave me hope and inspired me," McCall said Thursday, adding that she still has the card that came with a bouquet of flowers Franklin had sent. "Then, last year in the dressing room she said, 'Lisa, you've been through this — I hope I come out on top like you.' ... I knew what she meant."
McCall said Franklin was an inspiration both personally and professionally. The singer trusted the choreographer to assemble the team of dancers and make sure they were ready to perform at venues across the country.
"I think that's why I always hire Detroit artists — because of Aretha. She kept Detroit artists working," McCall said. "She always gave opportunities to Detroiters ... because she said we have great talent.
"She's Detroit's queen — she's our queen," McCall added. "She belongs to us."
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Three of the most iconic women in the history of popular music were born to humble roots in Tennessee between 1939 and 1946.
Tina Turner, who is technically the biggest-selling Tennessee-native singer of all time (according to Billboard), was born in Nutbush, Tennessee, to sharecropper parents on Nov. 26, 1939.
Aretha Franklin was born to a preacher father and pianist/singer mother at 406 Lucy Ave. in Memphis on March 25, 1942. Franklin died early Thursday at age 76.
And on Jan. 19, 1946, Dolly Parton was born in a rural cabin in Sevier County, the fourth of what would be 12 children for Avie Lee and Robert Parton.
Franklin moved to Detroit with her family when she was a young child, Turner grew up all over the South (including in Knoxville for a couple of years), and Parton stayed rooted in East Tennessee throughout her youth.
More: Aretha Franklin dies at 76 - Memphis roots and Nashville connections
Previously: Reports: Aretha Franklin 'gravely ill' in Detroit hospital
Although the three Tennesseans took different routes to stardom, their careers took parallel paths, including a time in the 1980s when the success of each woman coincided into a chart-topping juggernaut.
Turner, whose career launched when she teamed up with husband/Mississippian Ike Turner, saw her first hit with “A Fool in Love” in 1960, followed by what would be the duo’s second-biggest hit, “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine,” in 1961. “Proud Mary,” released in 1971, would prove to be Ike & Tina Turner’s biggest hit in a string of singles that also included a nod to Tina Turner’s birthplace, “Nutbush City Limits” (released in 1973).
Just months after Ike and Tina Turner’s first hit, Franklin emerged from the influential Detroit scene with her first hit, 1961’s “Won’t Be Long.” But it wasn’t until 1967 when Franklin released two of her most iconic hits, “Respect” and “Chain of Fools.”
That was around the same time that Parton, the youngest of the three women, was establishing herself with her first substantial country hits, “Dumb Blonde” (1966) and “Something Fishy” (1967). By 1972, Parton had scored four Top 10 country hits - including the No. 1 “Joshua” in addition to “Coat of Many Colors,” “Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” and “Touch Your Woman.”
Although Ike and Tina Turner disbanded in 1976 (after years of his abuse), temporarily derailing Tina Turner’s career, and Franklin’s success tailed off a bit at the same time, Parton’s star just got brighter as a string of No. 1 country hits (including 1973’s “Jolene” and 1974’s “I Will Always Love You”) eventually led her to a major crossover to the pop charts with 1977’s “Here You Come Again,” a No. 1 country hit that also soared to No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100.
Then all three of the Tennessee natives hit their chart-topping stride in the early-to-mid-1980s. Parton landed at No. 1 in 1980 with “9 to 5,” the theme for the movie that proved to be a breakthrough film role for Parton. In 1983, she returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 with her duet with Kenny Rogers, “Islands in the Stream.”
More: Dolly Parton gives updates on 2019 Netflix series, '9 to 5' remake, 'Dumplin'' soundtrack
Meanwhile, Tina Turner rebounded from obscurity in 1984 with the smash solo album “Private Dancer,” which spawned the hits “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and “Better Be Good To Me.” Turner’s career continued to cruise through the 1980s with the hits “We Don’t Need Another Hero” (1985), “Typical Male” (1986) and “The Best” (1989).
And just as Parton and Turner were reaching career heights, Franklin was enjoying renewed public interest that led to her 1985 Top 10 hits “Freeway of Love” and “Who’s Zoomin’ Who,” which was soon followed by the biggest hit of her career, her 1987 duet with George Michael, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).”
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DETROIT – To the rest of the world, she was the “Queen of Soul” — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel. To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply “Aretha” or more […]
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DETROIT – To the rest of the world, she was the “Queen of Soul” — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.
To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply “Aretha” or more personally “Ree-Ree” — the city’s favourite daughter, often singing at the Baptist church her father once led or headlining charity functions for kids or the less fortunate.
“She was a pioneer woman for Detroit,” said Myron Pullin, fighting back tears Thursday morning outside New Bethel Baptist Church after learning of Franklin’s death from pancreatic cancer.
“It really hurt my heart. I wanted to cry,” Pullin, 56, added beneath sombre, grey and swollen clouds. “Her music touches you, but her voice. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, they’re beautiful singers, but to me, Aretha just stood out differently from all of them.”
Franklin, who died at her home in Detroit, had moved to the city from Tennessee as a young child.
“She was just special and she always came home and she always gave back,” Pullin said. “She really, really always loved Detroit.”
The feeling was mutual. Franklin is so beloved in Detroit that not one, but two streets bear her name.
“Few people in the history of our city have been as universally loved or left as indelible a mark as Aretha,” Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement. “From the time her father gave Aretha her start in the New Bethel choir, it was clear to everyone how special she was. She was a performer without peers. Throughout her extraordinary life and career, she earned the love — and yes, the respect — of millions of people, not just for herself and for women everywhere, but for the city she loved so dearly and called home.”
In 2010, she and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed a duet at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center to raise money for urban children and awareness for music and the arts. “It is a joint effort for the inner-city youth of Philadelphia and Detroit,” Franklin said at the time.
She also worked with the United Negro College Fund and in 2005 held a party in the Detroit area for dozens of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
“Detroiters realize how deeply I appreciate the city in which I was raised,” Franklin wrote in her 1999 autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”
She continued, “And it is in Detroit that I continue to cultivate my career; it is to Detroit that I direct most of my charitable activities; and it is from Detroit that I receive much love and support, which I reciprocate.”
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the lone surviving original member of the Four Tops, told the AP earlier in the week about a recent conversation they had about the city.
“She was telling me she rides around the city every now and then — she talks about how beautiful it is again,” Fakir said.
Lisa McCall, whose quarter-century career working with Franklin started at age 12 as a dancer and continued for many years as her main choreographer, said Franklin was loyal to her “camp,” many of whom were from Detroit. They had a two-hour conversation when McCall was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, and another heart-to-heart came more recently.
“She heard I was ill and she called me — she gave me hope and inspired me,” McCall said Thursday, adding that she still has the card that came with a bouquet of flowers Franklin had sent. “Then, last year in the dressing room she said, ‘Lisa, you’ve been through this — I hope I come out on top like you.’ … I knew what she meant.”
McCall said Franklin was an inspiration both personally and professionally. The singer trusted the choreographer to assemble the team of dancers and make sure they were ready to perform at venues across the country.
“I think that’s why I always hire Detroit artists — because of Aretha. She kept Detroit artists working,” McCall said. “She always gave opportunities to Detroiters … because she said we have great talent.
“She’s Detroit’s queen — she’s our queen,” McCall added. “She belongs to us.”
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Associated Press writer Russell Contreras in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this story.
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At the age of 18, Franklin switched from religious music to secular (nonreligious) music. She moved to New York, New York, where she signed with Columbia Records. She released a number of recordings, singing everything from Broadway ballads to rhythm and blues. However, Franklin did not achieve great success until after she signed with Atlantic Records and famed producer Jerry Wexler in 1966.
At Atlantic, Franklin returned to her gospel-blues roots. She refined a style associated with Ray Charles—a mixture of gospel and rhythm and blues—and raised it to new heights. Her first song to sell a million copies was “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)” (1967). The same year she released “Respect”, which became an anthem on personal and racial levels. Franklin continued to release hit songs over the next five years.
In the early 1970s Franklin triumphed on tours of Europe and Latin America. She released Amazing Grace (1972), a live recording of her performance with a choir at a Baptist church in Los Angeles, California. Amazing Grace is considered one of the greatest gospel albums of any era and remains the best-selling live gospel recording. Her popularity dipped in the late 1970s, but she scored hits with “Jump to It” (1982) and “Freeway of Love” (1985). Her later albums included A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) and A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011).
In 1987 Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Over the course of her career she won 18 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1994, a National Medal of Arts in 1999, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. At Barack Obama’s 2009 presidential inauguration Franklin sang “My Country ’Tis of Thee” for a crowd of more than 1 million. Franklin died in Detroit on August 16, 2018. Later that year the documentary Amazing Grace, which chronicles the recording of the 1972 album, premiered.
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It was the tumultuous recording session in which Aretha Franklin found her voice – and a controlling bunch of men almost screwed it up.
The consequences would help define modern music, not only launching Franklin but sparking a feud in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which started a wave of creativity that helped define music in the 1970s, bringing a stream of superstars to the cluster of four towns on the banks of the Tennessee river.
But first, there was a bottle of vodka.
Before she was the Queen of Soul, Franklin had a false start, singing in quite a controlled way on poppy, jazzy releases for Columbia Records. Atlantic picked her up and in early 1967 sent her to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, where a hard-charging wannabe impresario named Rick Hall had made his first No 1 hit the year before. The singer of what became a soul classic, When a Man Loves a Woman, was Percy Sledge. When the song was recorded, he was working as a hospital orderly.
Franklin, aged 24, was at a grand piano in FAME’s wood-panelled Studio A, trying to turn an idea into a song. Session man Spooner Oldham was fiddling around with a five-note riff on a Wurlitzer electronic piano.
Oldham got the intro and by the time Franklin broke loose with “You’re a no good heart-breaker / You’re a liar and you’re a cheat”, her first big hit was on the way. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) made it to No 9 in the Billboard 100 and became the title track of Franklin’s breakthrough album. The raw power which made her famous was unleashed.
But in many ways, the session was an absolute disaster.
Hall died in January this year, aged 85 and widely acclaimed for his remarkable contribution to music. In an interview in 2013, at the control desk of Studio A, he told the story of the day Aretha came to town – and the extraordinary consequences for modern music.
Hall recalled that Jerry Wexler, the legendary producer from Atlantic Records, had told him: “I got this girl, I’m thinking of signing her, I’d like to bring her down here.”
“Course, I’d never heard of her,” Hall said. “She couldn’t get arrested. She’d never had a hit record, I didn’t know whether she could have a hit record. She came in here and she had her song down and she sat at the piano here, right by the window … and played Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You. We were immune to that. ‘What’s this song all about? It sounds like an old waltz! It’s got a waltz beat, you can’t dance to it, it’s not gonna happen.”
But he wanted Wexler’s business, so he said to himself: “We’re gonna make it happen.”
Franklin had married at 19. Her husband, Ted White, was also her manager. They divorced the following year and a later biography suggested they often had ugly fights. Some have assumed her breakthrough song was about their troubled relationship.
Hall said: “He brought in a bottle of vodka, or sent out and got a bottle of vodka, and he began to drink and pass the bottle around to some of the horn players. Well everything was groovy until about two o’clock in the afternoon. And he started getting pretty loopy.”
White came into the studio’s console room and told Hall: “I want you to fire the trumpet player. He’s making passes at my wife.”
The trumpet player was sent home. A couple of hours later, after another complaint from White, the tenor sax was fired too.
“So tension begins to get thick in the studio and people start to get a little antsy and they know things aren’t good and they wonder what’s going on … Jerry said, ‘Let’s just call the session off.’ We’d done one song and were into the second song.”
Halfway through recording Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, the session was stopped.
“So to settle my nerves,” Hall said, “I had to have a drink or two of vodka myself and I said to Jerry, ‘I’m going over to the hotel where they’re staying and work this out. We’ll have a drink together and we’ll talk it out and everything will be fine tomorrow.’
“And he said, ‘Oh God, please don’t Rick, don’t go over there, it’ll be trouble.’
“So I went.”
Wexler was right.
Hall continued: “So I went to talk to Ted, and we came to blows. Jerry said, ‘I’m leaving this town, I’ll never come back, I’ll bury you.’ I said, ‘You can’t bury me, you’re too old.’
“So it was war from then on. I hated him and he hated me, they hated me and I hated them. It wasn’t good for the industry, it was not good for me, I made a terrible mistake going over there and getting into it with Ted, and for all that I was sorry, but you know, things happen.”
‘A very shy, introverted lady’
David Hood, a bass player who worked with Etta James, Mavis Staples, Sledge and many more, was playing trombone that day at FAME. Speaking this week, after Franklin’s death, he told the Guardian: “Working with her was one of the highlights of my career.
“On that session I was part of the horn section. I’m not a great trombone player but I could do that. She was a very shy, introverted lady at the time, I think she was probably a little nervous at the start of it.”
Never Loved A Man was “kind of a strange song”, Hood said, and the session was going nowhere. But then, he said: “Spooner came up with this great little lick and everyone fell in line with that, started playing, and that saved the song. It was minutes after that we did the horn parts.
“Aretha played the piano while she sang, rather than just standing there singing. Her piano feel really helped the feel the musicians got to play with her.”
Hood recorded his part of the second song but was oblivious to the trouble.
“The rest of the guys didn’t really know what was going on. I wasn’t drinking in a recording session. You don’t go to work and drink. None of the rest of us knew about all this, we came back in the next day to start the session and there was a sign on the door saying session was cancelled.”
Wexler took Hall’s musicians to New York to finish the album, then set them up as rivals on Hall’s turf, buying a building across town at 3614 Jackson Highway, where the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio started.
Director Greg Camalier’s great documentary Muscle Shoals, the story of a small town with a big sound, has a moment when the phenomenal output of the new studio set up by guitarist Jimmy Johnson, bass player Hood and drummer Roger Hawkins is brought home. Key 1970s albums are piled up – among them Rod Stewart’s Atlantic Crossing and Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming.
Paul Simon, Willie Nelson and Elton John all came to record. The Rolling Stones recorded Brown Sugar and Wild Horses here, but couldn’t stay for the full Sticky Fingers album because Keith Richards was banned from the US. Lynyrd Skynyrd first recorded there – their manager gave the studio band their nickname, the Swampers. They are remembered in the lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama.
Hall, not to be outdone, did a deal with Capitol Records and turned the Osmonds into a global success.
Muscle Shoals became a music hub to rival Detroit and Memphis, having managed to start Aretha Franklin on her way.
In Studio A, the grand piano and Spooner Oldham’s Wurlitzer are still there, side by side.
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Elvis Presley's Graceland is the most famous musical home in the Mid-South, but it's far from alone. Presley's first home in Tupelo has become a museum, as has a former W.C. Handy house relocated to Beale Street.
Presley' s first adult home, in East Memphis, hosts events and blues pianist Memphis Slim's Soulsville house has been converted into a kind of musical community center.
But now, another famed musical abode, once thought a candidate for similar preservation, could soon be demolished.
A Shelby County Environmental Court order on Thursday put the deteriorating birth home of soul queen Aretha Franklin into a city receivership with an order to "abate nuisance through demolition."
"Nobody wants to tear it down, but also it can't stay like it's been, without being secured or maintained, forever," said Steve Barlow, a staff attorney for the City of Memphis and a leader of the nonprofit Neighborhood Preservation, Inc.
The small home is on a tucked-away residential street in South Memphis, surrounded by other boarded-up properties. The front of the house at 406 Lucy Avenue is secured, but the left side is sagging and a fire a few years ago led to a collapsed roof on an added back portion, which remained open to entry as of Saturday.
Franklin, the most celebrated woman in the history of American soul music, was born in the front of the house on March 25, 1942, and lived there for two years before her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, moved the family first to Buffalo and later to Detroit.
The listed owner and defendant on the court order is Vera L. House, who said she raised 12 children there but hasn't lived in the house for years.
"I turned it over to the courts to try to find someone who would keep it standing, but they waited so long until the house is about to fall," said House. "The front, where (Aretha) was born, is still good. I think the front could be saved if they tear the back of it off."
There has also been a complicating legal dispute between House and the property's mortgage owner.
"The taxes and everything are still in my name. I didn't know what to do about that. I can't afford to pay it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm through with it," said House, although she also noted that her son was currently living in it "to try to keep people from tearing it up worse."
The house was first certified a public nuisance on Oct. 4, 2012, and has been subject to periodic checks since. More recently, a collection of local nonprofits had been working to save the property, with a group named South Memphis Renewal CDC appointed a receiver and LeMoyne-Owen College Community Development Corporation executive director Jeffrey Higgs submitting a plan to raise money and relocate the house.
At the time, preservation group Memphis Heritage had been pursuing a potential buyer, according to executive director June West, but backed off when the group found out the property was part of an active case in environmental court, and instead offered support to LeMoyne-Owen CCDC. The hope was to preserve the house and relocate it to the Soulsville neighborhood for an undetermined historical and /or public purpose.
Higgs could not be reached for comment as of press time, but told WREG-TV last May that the organization wanted to "make sure it's in pretty good shape (and) maintain it" and that they were in the process of trying to contact Franklin for permission to use her or her family's name.
"Once there's an order of some sort, the court requires regular reports. The court's looking at a four-year-old file, with a lot of people who have come in with a lot of ideas, and then the inspectors, they know the historical connection, but all they can report on is the structural conditions. The objective determination that day was that it's probably time to move on and demolish the property," said Barlow.
The court order says that "demolition or abatement should be commenced immediately and completed as quickly as possible," but Barlow said there could still be time to save it.
"I think we've got a little bit of time," said Barlow. "Even if we put in an order to remove the house tomorrow, it usually takes at least a month for a crew to get out there. And we're not going to do that. We're interested in exploring credible alternatives to demolition. If someone contacted me, I would be happy to get it in front of the judge. We, the city and the court, are interested in any reasonable path forward that doesn't include demolition. But unless somebody can come up with a funded, clear plan, I don't think the city's going to have any choice."
"We were waiting for instruction or request and to be honest, I don't know where the ball got dropped. This has been extremely frustrating for us," said West. "But we're still here and we're still willing to do what we can do, and will do it in a heartbeat."
"Everybody was bending over backward to see if there was a way to save it. I think everybody involved hopes there's still a way, but nobody has found it. It's a really tough situation," said Barlow.
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DETROIT, MI - The world has lost one of its greatest voices. Aretha Franklin has passed away at the age of 76.
The publicist for Franklin tells the Associated Press she passed away this morning from pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit surrounded by family.
FROM PAUL MCCARTNEY TO IVANKA TRUMP, THE WORLD REMEMBERS FRANKLIN
Franklin was born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was raised in Detroit and has lived in the Motor City for decades.
"There will never ever be another sister Aretha," said Rev. Wendell Anthony at an event on August 13. "She has shown nothing but respect and love for Detroit. She's always been a speaker and an advocate for social justice and for liberty and for what is right."
SEE FRANKLIN'S MOST SPECTACULAR LIVE PERFORMANCES
Not many musicians achieved the success Franklin did. She won 18 Grammy Awards. That's the third most ever by a woman (Beyonce -22 and Alison Krauss 27).
She scored 20 No. 1 R & B hits including "Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Think," and "Freeway of Love." Franklin is also one of the top selling music artists of all-time having sold more than 75 million albums.
In 1987, the Queen of Soul became the first women inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Many people often mistake Franklin with being at Motown legend. She was never with Motown. Franklin spent her early years with Columbia records. She released her first album with Columbia in 1961. She left Columbia and signed with Atlantic in 1966. She was with Atlantic throughout the late 60s and 1970s before joining Arista in the 80s and 90s.
Franklin performed her last concert in Detroit when she headlined the inaugural free Detroit Music Weekend outside of the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts on June 10, 2017. Her last live performance took place on November 2, 2017 in New York City at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Gala.
In June 2017, the city of Detroit honored her by renaming a secondary street of Madison Avenue between Brush Street and John R after her.
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Why American Idol Champ Never Quit: I Couldn't Stay Away
Third time's the charm for American Idol's Season 12 champ. Candice Glover's victory on the reality singing competition show Thursday night comes after two major setbacks. She had previously auditioned in Season 9 and 11 and even made it to the Hollywood rounds, where she was then eliminated. She came back again in Season 12 and this time, made it to the very end. Check out all the new fall shows! "I always knew for some reason that it would happen if I kept going," she told reporters backstage after the finale. "At some point I said, 'American Idol obviously doesn't want me, so why would I go back?' But I found myself on the website, looking at auditions again and being determined. I just couldn't stay away." Check out Candice's other thoughts on: Her winning moment "I'm still trying to process the whole thing.
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Aretha Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee and she died in 2018 at the age of 76. Aretha won 18 Grammys. She had 112 singles on the Billboard charts, and sold over 75 million records worldwide. She was the first female performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . To this day she is the most charted female artist in history. Her music career started at the age of 18 when she signed her first record deal. Hit songs like “Respect” and “I Never Loved a Man” climbed Billboard charts and have maintained popularity.
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From CityLab: Following Aretha Franklin's death, Memphis, Tennessee, is debating how to best honor the humble house the singer was born in.
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This post originally appeared on CityLab. Find the original here.
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on the same date that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, passed away: August 16. Both had a connection to Memphis—Franklin was born there, while Presley died there. Much of the focus on Franklin’s death has been on Detroit, where she lived most of her life, but Memphis is hoping that its connection to the Queen is not lost.
Days after her death, Franklin’s fans lined up outside of the small wooden cottage house in south Memphis where she was born to hold vigils and pay respects. Community developers are hoping they can turn that house into a place that honors Franklin’s life. The house is equally known in Memphis for its connection to her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, a charismatic pastor, civil rights activist, and gospel music icon in his own right.
It hasn’t been inhabited in years and half of it was extensively damaged from a fire. It was in such disrepair that the city of Memphis deemed it a nuisance property in 2012 and slated it for demolition in 2016. It was spared that year after Higgs and preservation organizations promised to come up with a restoration plan for it. Higgs said the community groups he’s been working with on those plans have finally “nailed that down,” but the main problem with moving forward is getting the Franklin family’s blessing—a prospect dimmed by the fact that now both Aretha and her father are deceased.
“Our biggest roadblock is that we have not gotten permission from anybody in the family to say, ‘OK, yes, you can use her name and likeness, and we’ll give you some pictures and memorabilia,’” said Higgs.
Among those projects is the revamped Stax Records studio—where soul legends Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, and Carla Thomas recorded—that has been repurposed into a museum, with neighboring affiliated music schools. The CDC also helped save the home of blues artist John “Peter” Chatman aka “Memphis Slim,” and converted it into an art gallery and work space for musicians called the “Memphis Slim Collaboratory.” The community development financial institution Community LIFT has been instrumental in leveraging funding to make it all happen.
The Aretha Franklin house has been a little trickier to rehab, though, and not just because of ownership issues with the Franklin name, but also with the property itself. According to Shelby County records the property is owned by a woman named Vera House, whose family has reportedly been involved in its upkeep over the years. However, a court appointed the Lemoyne-Owen College CDC as the official receiver of the property in 2016, which means it has the rights to make modifications to it.
Also, this is not the first rescue attempt for the house. In 2011, several media outlets reported that a man named Herb Jackson was raising funds through a philanthropy called The R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Foundation to turn the house into a museum. There was a website for this, arethafranklinbirthplace.com, but it no longer exists. Looking at old versions of the site from the Wayback Archive, it says the museum would:
Include a community room that would be utilized for meetings, tutoring neighborhood school children (possibly by local area college students), mentoring meetings and programs (to include local churches, government and business leaders, NBA players and other athletes). There will also be a snack area and gift shop. The most beneficial area of this project is how it would assist the community and interact with the neighborhood. It will not only bring tourism, but it will bring jobs to the area.
“Aretha Franklin rose from a small home at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis to become the Queen of Soul,” said Mayor Strickland in a statement to CityLab when asked about the city’s plans for the house. “Today, we mourn her loss and celebrate the spirit she brought to this world.”
But the city wouldn’t comment on any specifics beyond that. The budget for the latest Franklin house proposal is modest—roughly $150,000, said Higgs, which shouldn’t be difficult to reach in a city that has staked much of its destination appeal on its music and civil rights bona fides. Graceland is currently amidst its own multi-million-dollar expansion that is being partially funded with public money. The city seems to be pushing back a bit on that, but the Shelby County Commission voted seven to one in June to allow it to move forward.
Besides Graceland, Memphis also has the world-renowned Beale Street corridor, replete with venues that honor recording artist legends such as B. B. King, Ma Rainey, and Robert Johnson. The entertainment district recently had its own expansion with the addition of Beale Street Landing, a six-acre “multi-amenity riverfront development” that cost roughly $43 million to complete, covered in part by city and other public funds. The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, is now a civil rights museum that expanded in 2014 and became a Smithsonian affiliate in 2016. It would seem that a museum commemorating a family like the Franklins, who were so instrumental in the nation’s musical and civil rights narratives, would have no problem finding financial support in a city that is central to both legacies.
However, the efforts to restore the Franklin house and revitalize surrounding South Memphis neighborhoods is not connected to those city tourist enterprises, and Higgs said that’s intentional. He’s concerned that those larger-scale downtown Memphis projects are increasing housing costs and elevating risks of displacement. The plans for south Memphis, including the Franklin house, are more “strategic,” said Higgs, to ensure that low-income and long-time residents will benefit.
“We don’t need anyone coming in gentrifying us, we know how to gentrify on our own,” said Higgs. “That inner-city movement [development] is happening all around us, but we’ve been doing this work for awhile now, so we know how to do it ourselves. We want to preserve the nature of what our community was and what it continues to be.”
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Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Think". These hits and more helped her to gain the title The Queen of Soul by the end of the 1960s decade.
Franklin eventually recorded a total of 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and twenty number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin also recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Lady Soul, Young, Gifted & Black and Amazing Grace before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, Franklin left Atlantic and signed with Arista Records, finding success with her part in the film The Blues Brothers and with the albums Jump to It and Who's Zoomin' Who?. In 1998, Franklin won international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma", at the Grammys of that year replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that same year, she scored her final Top 40 recording with "A Rose Is Still a Rose". Franklin's other popular and well known hits include "Rock Steady", "Something He Can Feel" (from the soundtrack to the 1976 film Sparkle), "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael), "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (with Whitney Houston) and a remake of The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Franklin has been honored throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which she became the first female performer to be inducted. She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Franklin is listed in at least two all-time lists on Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, in which she placed number 9; and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, in which she placed number 1.
Early life
Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Her father, who went by the nickname, "C. L.", was an itinerant preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Alongside Franklin, her parents had three other children while both C. L. and Barbara had children from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York when Franklin was two. Before her fifth birthday, C. L. Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan). Franklin's parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of C. L. Franklin's philandering and in 1948, they separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship.
Contrary to popular notion, Franklin's mother did not abandon her children; not only would Franklin recall seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, Barbara also frequently visited her children in Detroit. Franklin's mother died on March 7, 1952, before Franklin's tenth birthday. Several women, including Franklin's grandmother Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Franklin learned how to play piano by ear. Franklin's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in him being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice" and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. Franklin's celebrity led to his home being visited by various celebrities including gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews as well as Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke.
Music career
Beginnings
Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, "Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me". Four years later, when Franklin was 14, her father began managing her, bringing her on the road with him during his so-called "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches. He helped his daughter get signed to her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was issued in 1956. Two singles were released to gospel radio stations including "Never Grow Old" and "Precious Lord, Take My Hand". Franklin sometimes traveled with The Caravans and The Soul Stirrers during this time and developed a crush on Sam Cooke, who was then singing with the Soul Stirrers before his secular career.
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke to record pop music. Serving as her manager, C. L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960. Franklin was signed as a "five-percent artist". During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to have his label, RCA sign Franklin. He had also been courted by local record label owner Berry Gordy to sign Franklin and her elder sister Erma to his Tamla label. Franklin's father felt the label was not established enough yet. Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sing the Blues", was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top ten of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.
Initial success
In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first secular album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, "Won't Be Long", which also peaked at number 7 on the R&B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her recording in diverse genres such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first top 40 single with her rendition of the standard, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", which also included the R&B hit, "Operation Heartbreak", on its b-side. "Rock-a-Bye" became her first international hit, reaching the top 40 in Australia and Canada. By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a "new-star female vocalist" in Down Beat magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin, the latter of which charted number 69 on the Billboard Pop LPs chart.
By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top ten on the R&B chart with the ballad, "Runnin' Out of Fools" in early 1965. She had two R&B charted singles in 1965 and 1966 with the songs "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby" while also reaching the Easy Listening charts with the ballads "You Made Me Love You" and "(No, No) I'm Losing You". By the mid-1960s, Franklin was netting $100,000 from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, Franklin appeared on rock and roll shows such as Hollywood A Go-Go and Shindig!. However, it was argued that Franklin's potential was neglected at the label. Columbia executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her Columbia period.
Commercial success
In January 1967, choosing not to renew her Columbia contract after six years with the company, Franklin signed to Atlantic Records. That month, she traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record at FAME Studios to record the song, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" in front of the musicians of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The song was later issued that February and shot up to number-one on the R&B chart, while also peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top ten pop single. The song's b-side, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", reached the R&B top 40, peaking at number 37. In April, Atlantic issued her frenetic version of Otis Redding's "Respect", which shot to number-one on both the R&B and pop charts and later became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem.
Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. Franklin scored two more top ten singles in 1967 including "Baby I Love You" and "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman". Franklin's rapport with producer Jerry Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of Franklin's peak recordings with Atlantic. In 1968, she issued the top-selling albums, Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of Franklin's most popular hit singles including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think" and "I Say a Little Prayer". In February 1968, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. On February 16, 1968, Franklin was honored with a day in her honor and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King, Jr. who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians just two months before his death. In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
Franklin's success expanded during the early 1970s in which she recorded top ten singles such as "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady" and "Day Dreaming" as well as the acclaimed albums, Spirit in the Dark, Young, Gifted & Black and her gospel album, Amazing Grace, which sold over two million copies. In 1971, Franklin became the first R&B performer to headline Fillmore West, later recording the live album, Aretha Live at Fillmore West. Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album, Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single, "Angel", the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having R&B success with songs such as "Until You Come Back to Me" and "I'm in Love" but by 1975, her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. Records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film, "Sparkle", with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top 40 hit of the decade, "Something He Can Feel", which also peaked at number-one on the R&B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic including Sweet Passion, Almighty Fire and La Diva bombed on the charts and in 1979, Franklin opted to leave the company.
Later years
In 1980, after leaving Atlantic Records, Franklin signed with Clive Davis' Arista Records and that same year gave a command performance at the Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth. Franklin also made an acclaimed guest role as a waitress in the comedy musical, The Blues Brothers. Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha, featured the #3 R&B hit, "United Together" and her Grammy-nominated cover of Otis Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose". The follow-up, 1981's Love All the Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'". Franklin returned to the Gold standard– for the first time in seven years– with the album, Jump to It. Its title track was her first top 40 single on the pop charts in six years.
In 1985, inspired by her desire to have a "younger sound" in her music, her fifth Arista album, Who's Zoomin' Who?, became her first album to be certified platinum, after selling well over a million copies, thanks to the hits, "Freeway of Love", the title track and "Another Night". The following year's Aretha album nearly matched this success with the hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Jimmy Lee" and "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me", her international number-one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the shows, A Different World and Together. In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's New Bethel church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989. Franklin's 1991 album, What You See is What You Sweat, flopped on the charts. Franklin returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song "A Deeper Love" and returned to the top 40 with the song "Willing to Forgive" in 1994.
In 1998, Franklin returned to the top 40 with the Lauryn Hill-produced song, "A Rose Is Still a Rose", later issuing the album of the same name, which went gold. That same year, Franklin earned international acclaim for her performance of "Nessun Dorma" at the Grammy Awards. Her final Arista album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song, "Wonderful". In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Arista after over 20 years with the label. To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album, Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, in 2007. The following year, she issued the holiday album, This Christmas, Aretha, on DMI Records.
Franklin performed The Star Spangled Banner with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit in February 2006. She later made international headlines for performing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University. In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album, Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love. As of 2014, Franklin is now signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and is currently working again with Clive Davis. A new album is in the works with producers Babyface and Danger Mouse planning to work with Franklin.
On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Cissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of "Rolling in the Deep" would be featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released on October 21, 2014.
In October 2014 Franklin became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which debuted at number 47 on the chart.
In December 2015 Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King, who co-wrote the song. During the bridge of the song, Ms. Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation.
Music style and image
According to Richie Unterberger, Franklin is "one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged." She has often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience." Franklin's voice has been described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice" and has been praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. Of describing Franklin's voice as a youngster on her first album, Songs of Faith, released when she was just fourteen, Jerry Wexler explained that Franklin's voice "was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hierophant." Franklin's image went through rapid changes throughout her career. During the 1960s, Franklin was known for wearing bouffant hairdos and extravagant dresses that were sometimes embellished with either mink fur or feathers. In the 1970s, embracing her roots, Franklin briefly wore an Afro and the Afrocentric styled clothing admired by her peers. In the mid-1970s, after dropping weight, Franklin began wearing more fitted attire. By the 1980s, she had settled on wearing evening gowns and extravagant dresses.
Personal life
After being raised in Detroit, Franklin relocated to New York City in the 1960s, where she lived until moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in Encino, Los Angeles where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintains a residence there to this day. Following an incident in 1984, she has cited a fear of flying that has prevented her from traveling overseas; she has performed only in North America since then. The mother of four sons, Franklin gave birth to her first son, Clarence, shortly after she turned 14. Her first two sons' fathers have never been identified. While Franklin was pursuing her career and "hanging out with [friends]", Franklin's grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising the children. Franklin's third child, Ted White, Jr., was born in 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He has provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts.
Franklin has married twice. She married Ted White in 1961, despite objections from her father. After a contentious marriage that involved domestic violence, she divorced White in 1969. She then married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978 at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children from a previous marriage. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after Franklin returned to Michigan from California, and they divorced in 1984. At one point, Franklin had plans to walk down the aisle with longtime companion Willie Wilkerson. Franklin and Wilkerson had had two previous engagements stretching back to 1988. Franklin eventually called the 2012 engagement off.
Franklin's sisters Erma and Carolyn were professional musicians as well and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager, and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Sister Carolyn died the previous year in April 1988 from breast cancer, while eldest sister Erma passed from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's half-brother Vaughn died two months after Erma in late 2002. Half-sister Carl Kelley (née Jennings; born 1940) is still alive at 74. Kelley is C. L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then 12-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, where C. L. was pastor. Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, on June 10, 1979, when her father C. L. was shot twice at point blank range in his Detroit home. After six months at Henry Ford Hospital, still in a state of coma, C.L. was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.
Some of her music business friends have included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, and Cissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Cissy sang background on Franklin's classic hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's daughter, Whitney, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt, and Whitney often referred to her as "Auntie Ree". Whitney died on February 11, 2012. Franklin stated she was surprised by her death. She had initially planned to perform at Houston's memorial service on February 18, but her representative claimed that Franklin suffered a leg spasm and was unable to attend. In response to criticism of her non-attendance, she stated, "God knows I wanted to be there, but I couldn't."
Franklin is a registered Democrat. In 2014, she was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Harvard University for her contributions to music.
Weight issues and health problems
Franklin dealt with weight issues for years. In 1974, she dropped 40 pounds (18 kg) during a crash diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade. Franklin again lost the weight in the early 1990s before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. Franklin admitted in 1994 that her smoking was "messing with my voice", but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight "ballooned".
In 2010, Franklin canceled a number of concerts after she decided to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying it would "add 15 to 20 years" to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as it was rumored. On May 19, 2011 Aretha Franklin had her comeback show in the Chicago theatre. In May 2013, Franklin canceled two performances to deal with an undisclosed medical treatment. Later in the same month, Franklin canceled three more concerts in June and planned to return to perform in July. However, a July 27 show in Clarkston, Michigan was canceled due to continued medical treatment. In addition, Franklin canceled an appearance at an MLB luncheon in Chicago honoring her commitment to civil rights on an August 24 date. She also canceled a September 21 performance in Atlanta due to her health recovery. During a phone interview with The Associated Press in late August, 2013 Franklin stated that she had a "miraculous" recovery from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until she was at 100% health, stating she was "85% healed". Franklin has since returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit's Motor City Casino. She launched a multi-city tour beginning the summer of 2014, starting with a June 14 performance in New York at the Radio City Music Hall.
Legacy
Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. NARAS awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.
Franklin become the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams. That same year she was ranked among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists, and ranked first on the Rolling Stone list of Greatest Singers of All Time.
Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin has been described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America" and a "symbol of black equality". Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014.
Honorary degrees
Awards and nominations
Discography
List of number-one R&B singles
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967)
"Respect" (1967)
"Baby I Love You" (1967)
"Chain of Fools" (1967)
"(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (1968)
"Think" (1968)
"Share Your Love with Me" (1969)
"Call Me" (1970)
"Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" (1970)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1971)
"Spanish Harlem" (1971)
"Day Dreaming" (1972)
"Angel" (1973)
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973)
"I'm in Love" (1974)
"Something He Can Feel" (1976)
"Break It to Me Gently" (1977)
"Jump to It" (1982)
"Get It Right" (1983)
"Freeway of Love" (1985)
Filmography
Black Rodeo (1972) (documentary)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) (documentary)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) (documentary)
The Zen of Bennett (2012) (documentary)
Muscle Shoals (2013) (documentary)
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The onus is on those seeking to restore and preserve Aretha Franklin's Memphis birthplace to come up with a plan by mid-October, Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandridge said Tuesday.
Dandridge gave the city, receiver Jeffrey Higgs, current home owner Vera House and anyone else with an interest until Oct. 16 to decide how they want to use the dilapidated South Memphis house to honor Franklin, the renowned soul singer who died Aug. 16.
Queen of Soul remembered: Memphis music veterans mourn Aretha Franklin
Interest in the house in which Franklin was born March 25, 1942, has only grown since her passing at age 76. There's no shortage on ideas about what to do with it, but Higgs said he wants to make sure everyone is heard.
"We could start on something tomorrow," Higgs told Dandridge, "but (we) want to make sure we consider everyone."
At least one party, however, isn't so sure her interests are being taken seriously.
Current homeowner concerned about being left out
House, who has owned the home at 406 Lucy Ave. for about 30 years and raised 12 children there, appeared and hoped to pay $300 toward taxes owed. Dandridge declined to take the payment, saying he wanted House involved in discussions before the Oct. 16 court date.
After the hearing, an emotional Patricia Rogers spoke on behalf of House and said she was adamant that House be taken seriously and share in any benefits derived from the property.
“She is a major stakeholder,” Rogers said of House. “I'm going to send a message to this city that she is going to be respected and not exploited or manipulated.”
Rogers added that she has spoken with people connected with Franklin’s family in Detroit, and “not one piece of memorabilia will go into that — whatever they’re trying to do — until (House) is respected.”
House, who now lives on nearby Simpson Avenue, said she isn't interested in living in the home again, as suggested during the hearing as one possible solution for what to do with the house. She just doesn't want to be left out of whatever other plans are floated.
Two pastors spoke on House's behalf as well. Bishop E. Lynn Brown of the CME Church said the church would help House raise money and do anything else necessary to maintain her stake in the house's future.
More: Remembering Aretha Franklin: 'It's like a part of Memphis is dying'
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"The time has come for this stakeholder to not be railroaded under any political avalanche," Brown said outside the courtroom. "We will stand with her to do whatever it takes for this young lady to be a stakeholder."
A GoFundMe fundraiser also has been established to help preserve the home. Started by Memphis audio engineer Gebre Waddell, the fund has raised $920 toward a $250,000 goal.
City seeks a sustainable solution
Rogers gave a breakdown of taxes and fees owed on the home. She said about $235 is owed in city property taxes for 2017-18, plus another $300 roughly in fees for cutting weeds. House also owes just under $800 in Shelby County property taxes.
Attorney Alan Crone, who appeared with Higgs on behalf of the city of Memphis, said he was satisfied with Dandridge's plan to come back in October. He said he thought it would allow time for all parties to get together.
Crone said during court proceedings that the big concern was making sure the site, whatever is done with it, will be maintained long-term.
"The issue driving this is sustainability over the long haul," Crone said. "Nobody on the scene has stepped up."
Crone and Higgs asked Dandridge to set a deadline for a restoration plan. Dandridge punted the issue back into the hands of Higgs and Crone, however, saying it was the receiver’s role to contact all interested parties and come back with a plan.
Higgs, with the South Memphis Renewal Community Corp., was named receiver after retired Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter put the property into receivership during the years-long discussion over what to do with the site. At one time, it looked like the house might be demolished as a public nuisance.
Grant money in place, but no will for Franklin's estate
Higgs said shortly after Franklin's death that those seeking to restore the home were "in a pretty good position to move forward."
He noted at the time that untangling ownership issues with House was among the problems that have slowed plans for the home's future. He said grant money has been secured and a plan is in place that he cannot yet discuss.
Franklin's connection to the home over the years was thin. Though born there, her family moved to Detroit when she was 2 years old, and Franklin was always associated more with that city.
She did in later years, however, express some interest in maintaining the Memphis home. Higgs said he spoke to her personally about it.
Franklin, who died in Detroit of pancreatic cancer, left no will and there were no plans for her estate to assist in any restoration or maintenance of the Memphis property.
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“Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade — our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human. And sometimes she helped us just forget about everything else and dance. Aretha may have passed on to a better place, but the gift of her music remains to inspire us all. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace.”
President Barack Obama, 16 August 2018
Music makes us who we are, and there are scores of artists that helped shaped me… their songs marking many memorable stages of my life and those of many others all over the world. Earlier this year – March 8, 2018 to be precise – I penned Alive, She Cried! A two-part feature in celebration of International Women’s Day, listing my ten favourite female singers living in the world today. A little over a fortnight later, Aretha Franklin, indisputably the most formidable vocalist on the list, would celebrate her 76th birthday. It would prove to be her last.
Arguably the greatest singer of the post-Sinatra pop era, Aretha was an undisputed titan of American music. She had an uncanny ability to inspire through song, and influenced and captivated a generation through singing soul —and singing from her soul—stemming from a fabulously feisty but largely melancholic attitude, and an incredible talent that cast an inescapable spell over almost every female pop star across five decades.
From child prodigy status releasing gospel recordings at the tender age of 14, through to winning a record 18 Grammys, Aretha Franklin remained possibly the most authentic, the most heartfelt of all singing superstars.
Born in Tennessee in the spring of 1942, just three months after the USA entered World War 2, Aretha Louise Franklin was the daughter of renowned baptist minister the jazz-loving Reverend C.L. Franklin, who moved the family from Memphis to Buffalo and finally Detroit before she was school age. Thanks to that church upbringing (“I think the church gives you a natural class. And principles, and values,” she said in 2014), Aretha could testify with all the liberating joy of her Southern gospel roots. She could ache with the sadness of a singer who truly felt the blues, and swing with a playfulness to match her jazz heroes.
After nearly a decade honing what would become her singular voice, Franklin joined the formidable Nina Simone in helping to bring a gutsy blast of black-and-proud empowerment to the music industry at the peak of the civil rights era, campaigning with Dr. Martin Luther King, a family friend, and on record, using the hard-driving grooves of Alabama studio-session kings the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section to counter Tamla Motown’s slick chart-oriented crossover sound.
Despite being Detroit-based — she was “forever friends” with Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, and neighbours with Diana Ross from an early age — Aretha wasn’t interested in recording for Motown, though it didn’t stop her covering the odd Tamla tune when she felt like it, most notably an incendiary version of Wonder’s Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do), issued in 1973.
Following in the footsteps of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, Aretha helped bring spiritual passion into popular music. In 1961 she signed with Columbia, which tried to turn her into a Dinah Washington meets Ella Fitzgerald-style singer of jazzy pop and easy listening standards with mixed results. But Franklin was no female Nat ‘King’ Cole, she was the future Queen of Soul. She was young, gifted and black. She was a do-right woman. She demanded R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But it would take a change of company to help bring those talents to fruition.
In 1966 Aretha made the switch to Atlantic Records, finally delved into rootsy soul, and began to flourish. Like Dusty Springfield, her one-time label mate from across the pond, Franklin took a strong hand in creating her own sound, unlike many of their performing peers of the time. Her guiding principle with producers, she said, was “If you’re here to record me, then let’s record me — and not you.”
With that inimitable fusion of grace and grit, Aretha was the definition of soul music, earning her that soubriquet, the First Lady of Soul. In her prime, she had the power, range and technique allied with pitch perfect instincts, and was a sharp, rhythmically fierce pianist. It’s hardly a surprise the person honoured as the first female inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was her.
From the moment she laid out those emotional truths on her bold and brassy reimagining of Otis Redding’s Respect — now a famous call for recognition and appreciation — Franklin helped complete the task begun by Billie Holiday and others, converting American pop from a patriarchal monologue into a coed dialogue. Women were no longer just going to stand around and sing about broken hearts; they were going to demand respect, and even spell it out for you if there was some part of that word you didn’t understand.
Ripping it up like a trailblazing civil rights warrior, Aretha made Respect her calling card, and the song became something of a mantra and a groundbreaking anthem of female empowerment. She was feminism incarnate, the very personification of emancipation and equality. And as she declared on her elegiac version of the country-soul standard Do Right Woman, Do Right Man: ”A woman’s… not just a plaything/ She’s flesh and blood just like a man.”
With more than her fair share of Atlantic soul classics — Think, Chain of Fools, Angel, the list is endless — this Detroit divinity epitomised soul at its most gospel-charged. Franklin’s version of Bacharach & David’s sublime I Say A Little Prayer was pure existential soul, capturing heartache juxtaposed with workaday life: brushing your teeth, drinking morning coffee, putting on a little make-up. By singing of such things, she exalted the mundane, giving a voice — a powerful one — to everyday folks and events. The single charged up the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 — one of six Top 20 hits she scored in that year alone —and just nine months after Dionne Warwick had already taken the song to fourth position.
Aretha brought the single to the BBC‘s Cliff Richard Show (below) two years later, bobbing in time to the rhythm as she rocketed through the track’s ecstatic declarations of devotion. During this epochal period, the interplay between Franklin and her background singers was a key part of her performances, and the trio of auxiliary vocalists add frequent jolts of energy here, echoing Aretha or falling into chirping rounds of call and response. As the tooting horn section brings the song to a reverent close, the singer lets a little shimmy creep into her shoulders.
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1967’s majestic (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman is many people’s Franklin favourite, and undoubtedly a killer signature song, written for her by the celebrated partnership of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and the first taster of what would become a landmark recording, the Jerry Wexler-produced album Lady Soul.
On a personal level, I’ve come to regard Natural Woman as one of the most perfect, most blissfully evocative recordings ever made. Except for one damn thing: the abrupt fade-out always seemed like a cop-out to me, which is often the case when no one can think of a good way to end a song. Fortunately the version on the 2017 long-player, A Brand New Me, corrects this, bringing the outro to a natural stately end.
The album follows the recent posthumous Elvis model—it’s a collection of archival vocal recordings that Franklin recorded for Atlantic, accompanied by new orchestral arrangements by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra—albeit this first set made it out in Aretha’s lifetime, just.
More will undoubtedly follow.
The zenith of her remarkable run of records at Atlantic, Lady Soul made Aretha the critical and commercial toast of America and won a set of remarkable statistical achievements that testify to how widely it cast its net. For example, the album peaked at numbers 1, 2 and 3 on Billboard’s Black Album, Pop Album and Jazz Album charts respectively.
Alhough she wrote a number of her other hits, including the sexually brazen Dr. Feelgood, as was the case with Respect she displayed brilliance in making other people’s compositions her own, such as Curtis Mayfield’s gorgeous Something He Can Feel.
Or listen to her devastating 1971 gospel-charged take on the Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge over Troubled Water. That water’s a good deal more troubled when Franklin sings the song. Even the bridge seems sturdier.
Her take on Paul McCartney’s Let It Be, also originally from 1970, is another consummate example. I have a sentimental attachment to The Beatles’ version, which was shortly released after Franklin’s (she’d based hers on the demo) — it’s actually inspired by his death of Macca’s mother, the Mary of the song, rather than the Virgin Mary) — but what Aretha effortlessly injected into the lyrics was pure passion and soul. Literally taking it to church, her Southern gospel roots infuse the song with a spirit and serenity its author could only dream of, despite the cheesy sax solo.
Though rarely straying long from gospel in the decades that followed, Franklin evolved alongside soul itself, gliding from assertive funk jams (1982’s Luther Vandross-helmed Jump To It) to uptempo house grooves: her clubby cover of Clivilles & Cole‘s A Deeper Love (from Sister Act 2) topped the Billboard dance charts in 1994, and amazingly, in the UK gave Aretha her second highest charting solo single of her entire career; a sisterly No.5 to I Say A Little Prayer’s No.4.
She remains the female soloist with the most Hot 100 entries in US history. But if I think back to the other side of the pond in the 1980s, the vast majority of my generation had next to no idea who Aretha was before a) Scritti Politti’s sweetly affectionate tribute from 1984, Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin), a slice of pristine pop perfection helmed by Franklin’s former producer Arif Mardin and b) Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves, her masterful 1985 duet with Eurythmics and one of the great feminist anthems of our times. It put Franklin back in the UK Top 10 for the first time in 27 years.
Listening to it now, Sisters sounds like it might have leaped intact from Lady Soul, which is all the more disquieting when you remember Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart’s record label, RCA/BMG, tried to strong-arm the British duo into using the more commercially viable Tina Turner. In retrospect, perhaps only Aretha, the essence of sisterly community and assertive sexuality, could have transformed Lennox’s inadvertently kitschy lyrics about “the conscious liberation of the female state” into such an earthy ode to independence. Although Annie deserves credit for humanising her lyrics, it’s Aretha’s sly, sassy performance that really makes the song soar.
Amazingly, by 1985 Sisters was only Aretha’s third Top 10 hit in the UK. Two years later another duet, I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me), this time with George Michael, would give the singer her only British chart-topper, though truth be told, it probably wouldn’t have happened at all if Eurythmics hadn’t rescued her from semi-seclusion.
George wrote about his experience in his 1991 book, Bare, saying that he and Franklin recorded the song together but did their ad-libs separately. Yog admitted to being nervous, but he knew full well there was no point in trying to copy Franklin’s style. “Nobody can emulate Aretha Franklin,” he said. “It’s stupid to try. I just tried to stay in character, keep it simple – it was very understated in comparison to what she did.” Case in point: witness that brilliant moment at 2:42 where Aretha employs her incredible range to such mesmerising effect, swooping so unbelievably low that most people assumed it was George singing it until they saw the video.
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Sadly missing from the above clip (it followed after the George & Aretha video), John Peel, the Radio 1 DJ and occasional Top Of The Pops presenter infamous for his caustic remarks about the acts and songs, ended this particular episode with the immortal sardonic put-down:
“You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and I think she just has.”
Nevertheless, both duets helped raise Aretha’s status tremendously, aiding sales of her finest post-Atlantic pop album, 1985’s Who’s Zoomin’ Who? A slow-burning synth-coated collection of dance floor fillers that included the fabulously funky title track, Who’s Zoomin’ Who? — a phrase she came up with herself – was an invigorating return to form.
Freeway of Love, WZW’s first single, was a propulsive sax-fuelled joyride in a pink Cadillac that is miles better than its No.51 pedal-drop in Britain would suggest. Alas, it was much more successful in the US, eventually reaching No.3, winning a Grammy and became one of the most famous driving songs of all time. The delicious irony of that situation being that Aretha Franklin didn’t actually drive.
As fierce as she was fearsome, being “Aretha” didn’t keep her from checking out the competition, and being fiercely protective of her exalted status. Billing herself on social media as The Undisputed Queen of Soul, in 2008 her ego appeared bruised and bothered, while the rest of us were bewildered when she lashed out at Beyoncé for merely referring to Tina Turner, ambiguously, as “The Queen” during a Grammy Awards performance. Franklin later released a statement saying Bey’s proclamation had been a “cheap shot for controversy,” signing off with “love to Beyoncé anyway.”
Aretha made no mention of fellow Tennessee native Turner by name, who, since her legendary comeback in the mid 1980s, had sold hundreds of millions more records and concert tickets than Franklin. The saucer of milk routine continued with sharp words for Mavis Staples and even Gladys Knight, among others.
In 2017 she resurrected a decades-old feud with Dionne Warwick, threatening to sue Warwick for libel for referring, colloquially, to Aretha as Whitney Houston’s godmother (she wasn’t but Whitney would refer to Aretha, as a friend of her mother Cissy, as “Auntie”). Dionne, who was actually Cissy’s niece and therefore Whitney’s cousin, maintained a dignified silence, as had Tina. With much bitterness and a fair dollop of jealousy, The Queen of Shade took the feuds to her grave.
The First Lady had been in poor health for most of the last decade, though she still managed the odd public performance, and in 2014 released Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics: ten songs made famous by female recording artists and the last studio album of entirely original recordings created prior to her death.
Nothing captured Franklin’s range like her trove of covers, which were often so deeply felt that she had all but reclaimed them as her own. Her volcanic interpretation of Adele’s Rolling in the Deep was another perfect example, and there were also well-received reinterpretations of tracks made famous by Barbra Streisand, Sinéad O’ Connor (a jazz take of the Prince-penned Nothing Compares 2 U), and Detroit compatriots Diana Ross & The Supremes with a rendition of You Keep Me Hangin’ On, though to be honest, it paled in comparison with an earlier outtake recording that Aretha had laid down in 1969, and which was finally made public in 2007.
And it’s way more wild than Kim Wilde…
In July of 2014 I found myself staying as the houseguest of my sister Stella and her wife Sandra in the beautiful Cabbagetown district of Toronto. I was en route from my newly adopted homeland Australia, heading back to Blightly to attend the opening night of Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn residency in London.
I was a mere ten years old the last time KB staged any concerts, so you can imagine what a big deal this was for so many music lovers. Kate Bush was the only person on the planet who could drag me back to England just six months after emigrating. I couldn’t believe we’d waited so long for her to make her live comeback, and she goes and announces it just after I’ve left the UK.
I was literally moist with apprehension.
Not to be outdone, Stella just casually mentioned that she and her wife Sandra recently caught Aretha in concert in their new adopted Canadian hometown. I was more than a little limey green with envy. Since David Bowie had retired from public appearances I made it my duty to see as many of my other fave raves as I possibly could.
It occurred to me that Bush and Franklin really were the holy grail of live acts, both of them utterly unique and uncompromising in their artistry. Where they differed was that Kate was restricting herself to just one venue in West London — the legendary Hammersmith Odeon turned Apollo, scene of the infamous Ziggy Stardust retirement gig that Kate had attended, along with Neil Tennant, Boy George and the rest of the glam glitterati.
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Franklin had formally stopped large-scale touring in 2003, but even a cancer prognosis in 2010 could not keep her down. Fearlessly, she rose to grand occasions when she had to, and it wasn’t difficult to find her gigging more than was good for her. Aretha continued to play sporadic dates in the decade-plus following, anywhere she could travel by bus from her home in Detroit, as long as an obliging promoter would pay her in cash before she’d set foot on stage. I vowed I’d see this legendary performer somehow, somewhere.
Aretha’s well-documented no-fly zone stemmed from a harrowing journey she endured departing Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport after a local gig in 1983. It traumatized her to the point that she never flew again, and encountering lightning and thunder during travel, even on the ground, would trigger tremendous fear: “I was leaving Atlanta in a very small plane,” she recalled. “A two-engine prop plane, I believe. And it was a very bad flight. I’m very much a ground person now.”
In June of 2015 I returned to Toronto for my birthday, and to march in the city’s Gay Pride parade with Stella, Sandra and assorted minions. This was the historic day that, 500 miles away on the other side of the North American border, Barack Obama announced a gay marriage was legal across the entire US, the timing of which deliberately coincided with the start of the Stonewall riots, which kicked off in New York on the day I was born. By chance, I read Aretha was on tour. Well, her version of a tour anyway.
The singer was putting in the odd appearance in a small handful of north and eastern states, including, in a week’s time, headlining a special 4th of July ‘Saturday In The Park’ free festival in Sioux City, the capital of the Native American Siouxland in the vast Great Plains of the midwest. Not only was it the chance to see one of America’s most legendary performers on Independence Day, but Iowa was the so-called Hawkeye state where I had indigenous ancestry myself, but had yet to visit. I was going. I didn’t even need to think about it.
In 1980, at the nadir of her musical career, Aretha made a rare foray into acting, employing some of her trademark sass in The Blues Brothers movie
Regional flights at that short notice were silly money, and it was out of the question to hire a car in Canada to return in the US (I was flying out of Los Angeles back to Australia ten days later, in the final week of my three-month visitor visa), so with no time to lose I hitched a lift to Windsor, Ontario, the borderline city with the States, then headed to Budget car rental on the other side of the Detroit River in the Motor City, the Motown hub where Aretha had lived since the age of four.
I hired a beautiful white Mustang convertible and sped — and I mean sped — the entire 12 hour road trip to get there, briefly stopping for the night in that toddling town, Chicago the windy city, and making the briefest of pit stops in the down-at-heel rusted steel town of Gary, Indiana to have a nosey at Michael Jackson’s birthplace.
Some 800 miles later I made the Grandview Park with just a few minutes to spare. Aided by someone’s right arm, Aretha shuffled on stage to the sound of Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher) and I had to pinch myself I was actually seeing and hearing that legendary voice in the flesh. Now 73, the famous pipes sounded a touch raspier than they once were, and the power came through her timing and easing into lines rather than belting. She displayed this assurance throughout the concert, such as how her fiery vibrato reshaped Sixties standards like I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You).
Even if she no longer possessed the highest end of her incredible range, that night Aretha showed that her amazing artistry was always about more than the number of octaves. Aretha Franklin was such a defining feature of American culture, and here was I, with 25,000 natives on the most important day in the US calendar – the Independence Day of the United States, celebrating the moment the former ‘colonies’ declared themselves no longer connected to the British Crown. I don’t mind admitting I shed a bit of tear when she belted out Natural Woman.
Franklin was not simply the Queen of Soul; her contention to music across many genres was universal. She held royalty status in the fields of gospel, blues, jazz, dance, rock and pop as well. Utterly incomparable, I felt privileged and more than a little moved to be able to witness this voice of an angel live in concert. As with the Kate Bush concert, it was one of the greatest moments of my life. Her reign as The Queen of Soul will never end. The power of her voice would never diminish. The pure joy of her artistry would last forever. Thank you for everything Aretha.
An intensely private and rather shy person, Aretha Franklin died of pancreatic cancer at home in her beloved Detroit. It just happened to be the 60th birthday of another Michigan girl, Madonna, (who Aretha disliked intensely) who hails from Bay City about ninety minutes north of the Motor City, and whose middle name is also Louise. Franklin was born in Memphis, the Tennessee city forever associated with Elvis Presley, who, freakily, also died on 16 August some 41 years earlier. Aretha’s birthplace, a 1920s “clapboard cottage” at 406 Lucy Avenue, is a mere six miles from Graceland, The King’s resting place, and just two miles from where her friend Martin Luther King was assassinated. American icons and international fixtures in popular culture, the Kings and Queen are truly looking down on us now.
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The soulful strains of the Queen of Soul wafted across Lucy Avenue and landed gently on a tearful Erica Qualy.
"It's like a part of Memphis is dying," Qualy said after leaving a purple bouquet at the door of Aretha Franklin's birthplace.
More: Aretha Franklin dies at 76: Detroit star transformed American music
More: Efforts to preserve Aretha Franklin's childhood Memphis home has been ongoing saga
She joined others who, along with reporters, began to clog the narrow South Memphis street Thursday morning in the hours after word of Franklin's death began spreading.
Franklin, 76, died at her home in Detroit surrounded by family, according to reports. A family statement said she died of pancreatic cancer.
Visitors in Memphis came to Lucy Avenue to write on the boarded windows of the tiny, dilapidated clapboard cottage where Franklin was born in 1942. They just wanted to show a little respect for the woman who put the soul in Soulsville.
"She was like a source of joy," said Qualy, who has called Memphis home for eight years. "She was really soothing. When I hear the album 'Lady Soul,' it really speaks Memphis to me."
Though most identified with Detroit, Aretha belongs to Lucy. Residents say they only let the rest of the world borrow her.
"It's always been an honor having her house across the street," said James Johnson.
It was from a speaker on the front lawn of his house that Franklin's music greeted those passing by Thursday morning. But it wasn't just Thursday; Johnson said he plays Franklin's music for visitors often.
"We play it all the time, out of respect," Johnson said. "I met her a couple of times. She was a very nice person."
Franklin's family moved to Detroit when she was 2 years old, and she seldom visited her Lucy Avenue birth place over the years. She did, however, become involved with efforts to restore the home in recent years. Those involved with restoration efforts said earlier this week they're making progress.
More: Memphis soul veterans mourn Aretha Franklin, recall her musical connections to the city
Jeffrey Higgs, executive director of the LeMoyne-Owen College Community Development Corp., said earlier this week efforts to preserve and promote the home are "in a pretty good place."
So far, a fence has been erected around the house to secure it and Mayor Jim Strickland last year unveiled a plaque outside the home.
Higgs said multiple issues have slowed any plans for the house — untangling ownership issues, getting permission from Franklin's family to use names and likenesses, and deciding what direction to go in promoting the house.
"We've finally figured that last one out," Higgs said, "but we can't talk about it yet. We think we have a very positive message to tell. We have some grant money."
Rico Scott, like Qualy, said at the site Thursday that there was just something so Memphis about Franklin's music.
"I grew up on Aretha Franklin," Scott said. "Both gospel and R&B. There's just no other woman who could compare. Her music taught me how to continue to love the Lord. I'm just so grateful she was born in my hometown."
"The passion appealed to me," added Qualy. "I'm a musician myself, so you know it when you hear it in someone else. She's just such an inspiration."
And the house, Qualy said, needs to stay where it is, in spite of talk of relocating it.
"Keep it where it is," she said. "I read that they were talking about cleaning it up and moving it somewhere, which is so ridiculous. Leave it in this place and this neighborhood. This is Memphis. Don't try to make it pretty like Beale Street."
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Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942. Her father, a Baptist minister, moved the family to Detroit when Aretha was 5 years-old to preach at New Bethel Baptist Church. After her mother died in 1952, 10 year-old Aretha found solace through singing in the church. It was immediately apparent to everyone who heard, that there was something special about her. She continued to sing and gain attention and by the time she turned 18, she signed a recording contract with Columbia records. Though her time with Columbia taught her about the business and generated a few minor hits, it would take a change for the world to finally meet Ms. Franklin. In 1966, Aretha Franklin signed with Atlantic records and exploded onto the international music landscape.
Known by all as the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha’s time at Atlantic produced dozens of hits and spawned 3 gold records, 9 gold singles and 3 Grammy awards. “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You),” “Natural Woman,” “Rock Steady”…and on and on. And that was just the first FOUR years of her stardom.
Aretha continued to churn out iconic recordings and live performances for decades to follow. The word “legendary” is thrown around a lot, but the impact that her gospel-tinged voice and catalog had on Soul, R&B, Pop, Rock and Roll and countless other genres cannot be considered anything other than exactly that. She recorded with artists ranging from James Brown to Adele. She influenced generations of singers. There was not before, and never will be again, another like Aretha Franklin.
Aretha struggled with health, weight and substance issues most of her life. But, she always gave everything she had in a performance. In 2018, she died at the age of 76 in her Detroit home of pancreatic cancer. Her public memorial at New Bethel Baptist Church was attended by 100 “pink Cadillacs” – a nod to her 1983 hit “Freeway of Love – and included a complete costume change prior to the final public viewing. It was the 4th different outfit her body wore that week. A legendary queen to the end.
Burial
Woodlawn Cemetery – Detroit, MI
Specific Location
Mausoleum, Lower Level, Section 185-188 – Enter the mausoleum from the lower level door on the south side. Aretha and her family are buried in the first alcove on your left as you enter. She is on the top row on the right side of the alcove.
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Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul", was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942. Her father, C.L. Franklin, was a well-known Baptist preacher who attracted many famous followers including gospel stars Mahalia Jackson and Aretha's aunt, Clara Ward. In 1944, the family moved to Detroit, where Aretha grew up.
C.L. Franklin was also good friends with the gospel singer turned pop star, Sam Cooke. With an environment filled with musical talent, it was inevitable that Aretha would develop an interest in music. It was actually her aunt, Clara Ward, who inspired Aretha to pursue her interest in singing. Aretha joined the church choir and earned her position as a featured soloist by the age of twelve. Between the ages of 14 and 18, Aretha explored only her interest in gospel music. This allowed time for Aretha to reach deep into herself and explore her inner soul. At the same time, her life was difficult and she had two children while still a teenager.
Inspired by Sam Cooke, and helped by her grandmother, who took care of the kids, Aretha started her career and moved to New York City. After turning down a contract with Motown in Detroit, she signed with Columbia in New York at the age of 18. During the next six years at Columbia Records, Aretha recorded 10 albums without ever hitting it big. Many critics blame her delay in delivering a hit on Columbia Record's lack of direction in developing the young singer.
Disillusioned, Aretha signed with Atlantic Records under the guidance of Jerry Wexler in 1966. Wexler, aware of Aretha's emotional intensity and her gospel-inspired sound, allowed her to develop into the sensation she was destined to become. Aretha delivered her first hit single, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You)" which reached a top 10 spot in this new, more comfortable setting. Aretha, now at ease, was able to reach further into her heart and release her soul through her belting cries. The result was a string of hits including "Respect" (Otis Redding's 1965 hit), "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", and "Since You've Been Gone."
As with the song, "Respect", Aretha has always been a strong proponent of women's equality and respect. She became a role model for women and African Americans during the civil rights era, commanding them to demand equality. Aretha continued to enjoy a prosperous career in the early 1970's with the single, "Day Dreaming" and the albums, "Live at Fillmore West" and "Amazing Grace."
However, as the disco rage began to cross America in the mid-1970's, Aretha's career started to falter as well as her marriage. Her innate strength, however, brought her back into the limelight with her cameo role in the film "The Blues Brothers" in 1980. Aretha also moved to Arista Records at this time and recorded two albums, "Aretha" and "Love All The Hurt Away" which were both commercially successful. Later, she recorded duets with artists such as Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics, George Micheal, Elton John, and Whitney Houston. Aretha Franklin's career has spanned more than 40 years and continues to inspire younger artists such as Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill.
Aretha set the standard of delivering the experiences and sentiments common to women in a convincing manner. She enlightens the mind as well as heals the heart. Aretha has accomplished quite an extensive list of awards in her lifetime including 15 Grammy awards, the Grammy Legend Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in addition to her position as the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. She has also had 12 million selling singles and 20 No.1 R&B hits.
Her 1998 album, "A Rose is Still a Rose" was critically acclaimed and continues her output of quality music, giving her a deserving reason to wear her crown as the "Queen of Soul" proudly. On that album, she collaborated with hip-hop musicians Lauryn Hill and Puff Daddy Combs.
One of her last major appearences was on the Kennedy Center Honors, in 2015, singing "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”" in tribute to Carole King, who was honored that year. Franklin Passed away in 2018 after a struggle with Pancreatic Cancer.
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C.L. Franklin was also good friends with the gospel singer turned pop star, Sam Cooke. With an environment filled with musical talent, it was inevitable that Aretha would develop an interest in music. It was actually her aunt, Clara Ward, who inspired Aretha to pursue her interest in singing. Aretha joined the church choir and earned her position as a featured soloist by the age of twelve. Between the ages of 14 and 18, Aretha explored only her interest in gospel music. This allowed time for Aretha to reach deep into herself and explore her inner soul. At the same time, her life was difficult and she had two children while still a teenager.
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Disillusioned, Aretha signed with Atlantic Records under the guidance of Jerry Wexler in 1966. Wexler, aware of Aretha's emotional intensity and her gospel-inspired sound, allowed her to develop into the sensation she was destined to become. Aretha delivered her first hit single, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You)" which reached a top 10 spot in this new, more comfortable setting. Aretha, now at ease, was able to reach further into her heart and release her soul through her belting cries. The result was a string of hits including "Respect" (Otis Redding's 1965 hit), "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", and "Since You've Been Gone."
As with the song, "Respect", Aretha has always been a strong proponent of women's equality and respect. She became a role model for women and African Americans during the civil rights era, commanding them to demand equality. Aretha continued to enjoy a prosperous career in the early 1970's with the single, "Day Dreaming" and the albums, "Live at Fillmore West" and "Amazing Grace."
However, as the disco rage began to cross America in the mid-1970's, Aretha's career started to falter as well as her marriage. Her innate strength, however, brought her back into the limelight with her cameo role in the film "The Blues Brothers" in 1980. Aretha also moved to Arista Records at this time and recorded two albums, "Aretha" and "Love All The Hurt Away" which were both commercially successful. Later, she recorded duets with artists such as Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics, George Micheal, Elton John, and Whitney Houston. Aretha Franklin's career has spanned more than 40 years and continues to inspire younger artists such as Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill.
Aretha set the standard of delivering the experiences and sentiments common to women in a convincing manner. She enlightens the mind as well as heals the heart. Aretha has accomplished quite an extensive list of awards in her lifetime including 15 Grammy awards, the Grammy Legend Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in addition to her position as the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. She has also had 12 million selling singles and 20 No.1 R&B hits.
Her 1998 album, "A Rose is Still a Rose" was critically acclaimed and continues her output of quality music, giving her a deserving reason to wear her crown as the "Queen of Soul" proudly. On that album, she collaborated with hip-hop musicians Lauryn Hill and Puff Daddy Combs.
One of her last major appearences was on the Kennedy Center Honors, in 2015, singing "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”" in tribute to Carole King, who was honored that year. Franklin Passed away in 2018 after a struggle with Pancreatic Cancer.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think".
Early life and career: 1942–1960
Aretha Massacorale Franklin was born at a two-room house in Memphis located at 406 Lucy St. She was the third of four children born to Barbara (née Siggers) and C.L. Franklin and the fifth of six overall in between past relationships by her parents.
Franklin's family moved to Buffalo, when Franklin was two, and then by four, had settled in Detroit.
Following the move to Detroit, Franklin's parents, who had a troubled marriage, split. Due to her father's work as a Baptist minister, Franklin was primarily raised by her grandmother, Rachel.
Franklin suffered a tragedy when her mother died in Buffalo when Aretha was ten.
Franklin sang in church at an early age and learned how to play piano by ear. By her late preteens, Franklin was regularly singing solo numbers in her father's New Bethel Baptist Church. Franklin's father, C.L. (short for Clarence LaVaughn), was a respected and popular preacher.
Franklin grew up with local and national celebrities hanging out at her father's home including gospel greats Albertina Walker and her group The Caravans, Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward, three women who played a pivotal role in her vocal development as a child.
Music style and image
Franklin had often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience".
Franklin's voice was described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice". She was praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs.
In 2015, then-President Barack Obama wrote the following regarding Franklin:
Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll — the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That's why, when she sits down at a piano and sings 'A Natural Woman,' she can move me to tears — the same way that Ray Charles's version of 'America the Beautiful' will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed — because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.
Honours
Franklin is one of the most honored artists by the Grammy Awards, with 18 competitive Grammys and two honorary Grammys. She had 20 #1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart and two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967) and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with George Michael. Since 1961, she had a total of 45 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also had 14 singles that sold more than one million – more than any other female artist. Between 1967 and 1982 she had 10 #1 R&B albums – more than any other female artist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked her at top of its list "The Greatest Singers of All Time" In 2005, she was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. On February 6, 2006, she performed, along with Aaron Neville, "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XL. The same year she got an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the Berklee College of Music.2010, Franklin received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Yale University.
In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the only featured singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
Personal life
Franklin was the mother of four sons, Clarence, Jordan, Ted and Kecalf.
Franklin was married twice. Her first husband was Ted White, whom she married in 1961 at the age of 19. She married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978, at her father's church. They divorced in 1984.
Franklin's sisters, Erma and Carolyn, were professional musicians and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Her brother Cecil became her manager.
On June 10, 1979, when her father, C. L., was shot twice at point-blank range in his Detroit home. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.
Franklin was a Christian and was a registered Democrat.
Death
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit. She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson, and ex-husband Glynn Turman, among others, visited her on her deathbed. Franklin died at home on August 16, 2018, aged 76. The cause was reported to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
Legacy
Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005.
Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams. That same year she was ranked 19th among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists, and ranked first on the Rolling Stone list of Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2013, she was again ranked first in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers" list.
Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin was described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America" and a "symbol of black equality". Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014.
"American history wells up when Aretha sings", president Obama explained in response to her performance of "A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. "Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope". On June 8, 2017, the City of Detroit honored Franklin's legacy by renaming a portion of Madison Street, between Brush and Witherell Streets, "Aretha Franklin Way".
On January 29, 2018, The Oakland Press′s correspondent Gary Graff confirmed that the American Idol runner-up Jennifer Hudson will take the role to play Franklin in her coming biopic. The news was announced by the the film's executive producer Clive Davis, who made public their decision on the choice of actors casting in the film two days before Graff's article was published.
An all-star tribute concert to Franklin, celebrating her music, is scheduled for November 14, 2018, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Grammy Awards
Aretha Franklin's 18 Grammy Award Wins # Year Category Genre Title 1 1968 Best Rhythm & Blues Recording R&B Respect 2 1968 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Respect 3 1969 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Chain Of Fools 4 1970 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Share Your Love With Me 5 1971 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Don't Play That Song For Me 6 1972 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Bridge Over Troubled Water 7 1973 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Young, Gifted and Black (album) 8 1973 Best Soul Gospel Performance Gospel Amazing Grace (album) 9 1974 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Master Of Eyes 10 1975 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 11 1982 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Hold On...I'm Comin' (album track) 12 1986 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Freeway Of Love 13 1988 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance R&B Aretha (album) 14 1988 Best R&B Performance – Duo Or Group with Vocals R&B I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (with George Michael) 15 1989 Best Soul Gospel Performance – Female Gospel One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (album) * 1991 Living Legend Award Special * 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award Special 16 2004 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance R&B Wonderful 17 2006 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance R&B A House Is Not A Home 18 2008 Best Gospel-Soul Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Gospel Never Gonna Break My Faith (with Mary J. Blige)
Discography
Main article: Aretha Franklin discography
Top 10 US Hot 100 singles
Year Title Peak 1967 "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" 9 1967 "Respect" 1 1967 "Baby I Love You" 4 1967 "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" 8 1967 "Chain of Fools" 2 1968 "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" 5 1968 "Think" 7 1968 "The House That Jack Built" 6 1968 "I Say a Little Prayer" 10 1971 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" / "Brand New Me" 6 1971 "Spanish Harlem" 2 1971 "Rock Steady" 9 1972 "Day Dreaming" 5 1973 "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" 3 1985 "Who's Zoomin Who?" 7 1985 "Freeway of Love" 3 1987 "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael) 1
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Franklin in 1967
Franklin in 1998
Franklin performing in April 2007 at the Nokia Theater in Dallas, Texas
Franklin performs in the East Room of the White House in 2015
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Although she was born in Memphis, Tennessee, Aretha Franklin spent most of her early years in Detroit, Michigan, with her mother, a gospel singer, and her father, a Baptist minister. After her parents separated, Franklin remained with her father in Detroit. In 1960 she moved to New York City to pursue a career in secular music.
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Celebrated and known worldwide as the Queen of Soul. Despite the fact that she was one of the most famous people on the planet with one of the most distinctive voices the music industry has ever heard, there are still a few things that seem surprising about Aretha Franklin’s remarkable life.
Born Aretha Louise Franklin on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, she learned to play piano entirely by ear. She was self-taught, but came to it naturally, as her mother was a fine pianist and singer herself.
Aretha’s mother passed away before Aretha reached age 10. Several women stepped up to help take care of the Franklin kids, including gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.
Aretha’s father was a preacher and gospel singer, and visitors to the Franklin household included the likes of Sam Cooke, James Cleveland, Clara Ward, Jackie Wilson, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the hits for which Aretha became best known, “Respect,” was originally recorded in 1967 by Otis Redding, who wrote the song.
In 1987, Aretha was the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Gospel Music Association’s Hall of Fame, the NAACP Hall of Fame, the Apollo Theater Legends Hall of Fame, and the UK Music Hall of Fame.
Aretha performed at the inauguration of no less than three U.S. presidents: Jimmy Carter (1977), Bill Clinton (1992), and Barack Obama (2009).
Aretha gave a command performance before Queen Elizabeth II at Royal Albert Hall in 1980.
At her peak, Aretha boasted an astonishing four-octave vocal range.
Aretha was nominated for Grammy Awards 44 times, with 18 wins and three additional special Grammys to her credit.
On Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the Greatest Singers of All Time, Aretha Franklin is number one.
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Aretha Franklin was a self-taught soul singer and pianist known for such perennially popular songs as âRespectâ and â(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman.â She won 18 Grammy Awards and, in 1987, became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, to a gospel singer mother and Baptist preacher father, she was a child prodigy who learned to play piano by ear, touring with her fatherâs revival show. Her childhood was cut drastically short, however: her first son was born when she was 12 years old, her second at age 14. That same year she recorded her first gospel album at their church in Detroit, MI, where she and her father had settled.
In 1960 Franklin left for New York City, where she signed with Columbia, who released Aretha the following year. She married Ted White, who became her manager, and her career flourished. In 1967 her cover of âRespectâ became number one on both the R&B and Pop charts and she won her first two Grammys.
After her divorce, Franklin returned to her gospel roots, winning the Grammy for Best R&B Female Vocalist for eight years in a row. Concert tours were limited by her extreme fear of flying, thus she never performed overseas. Having jumped around record labels her whole career, she eventually founded her own, Aretha Records, in 2003.
A symbol of Black empowerment in the U.S. during the civil rights movement, she sang at the funeral of Martin Luther King, who was a friend of her fatherâs. She was also invited to sing at President Obamaâs 2009 inauguration. When she died, he asked for the cloche hat she wore to be part of the Presidential Library.
In later years, Franklin became known for unlikely collaborations. Her duet with George Michael âI Know You Were Waiting (For Me)â hit number 1 on the pop charts. In 2010, she sang a concert accompanied by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a classically trained pianist. Jennifer Hudson plays the iconic artist in the 2021 biopic, Respect.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", and "Spanish Harlem".
By the end of the 1960s she was being called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Young, Gifted and Black (1972) and Amazing Grace (1972), before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, she left Atlantic and signed with Arista Records, finding success with the albums Jump to It (1982) and Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), and her part in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In 1998, Franklin received international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards that year, replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that year, she scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a Rose".
Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin's other well-known hits include "Rock Steady", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael), and a remake of The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, from 1968 through to 1975, and is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.[1]
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit, snagging Aretha Franklin's childhood home for $355,000.
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit after snagging late music legend Aretha Franklin‘s childhood home for $355,000.
Records show the sale closed Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to buyers who purchased the home for less than the initial asking price, TMZ reports, of $379,000.
The three-story home in Detroit’s historic La Salle Gardens comes with six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and 6,000 square feet of living space. A spacious front yard and backyard surround the brick-covered foundation of the home. There are fireplaces and hardwood floors throughout as well as space to fit another bedroom.
The late “Queen of Soul” lived in the home from ages 5 to 18 and had fond memories from her time in the dwelling. In 2011, Franklin revisited the home and recalled her days growing up in Detroit. Franklin shared a special bond with the home and owned it despite not living in it for years.
The “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” singer was actually born in a tiny wooden home in Memphis in 1942, but left the city when she was just two years old. In 2017, the Memphis Mayor’s office made a bid to preserve the home and turn it into a landmark, according to Architectural Digest.
Franklin’s family moved to New York from Memphis. In 1947, her father, Reverend Clarence Franklin, became pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit and moved his family of five to Michigan.
In 1952, eight days before Aretha’s 10th birthday, her mother died. At age 12, she started singing in her father’s church and would join him on the road, singing gospel in his caravan shows. By the time she turned 18 in 1960, Franklin was ready to pursue a singing career and the rest is history. Franklin died in 2018.
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Birthplace of The Queen of Soul: an abandoned house in a tree-lined but poor part of town. She last visited in 1995.
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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. When she was two years old her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where her father became minister at New Bethel Baptist Church. Both parents were gospel singers but her mother, later separated from Franklin’s father, died when
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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. When she was two years old her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where her father became minister at New Bethel Baptist Church. Both parents were gospel singers but her mother, later separated from Franklin’s father, died when Franklin was ten.
Living in the church parish house on Boston Boulevard and Oakland Avenue, Aretha was exposed at an early age to such music legends as Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, when they visited her father. Unchallenged by piano lessons she taught herself to play by ear. She grew up with Smokey Robinson in a neighborhood that spawned the Four Tops, Diana Ross and Jackie Wilson. Franklin’s father and gospel singer Clara Ward were major influences, according to Franklin’s autobiography Aretha, From These Roots. Franklin sang her first solo in her father’s church at age nine or ten. Her first recording, made by Chess Records when she was 16, had nine sacred songs recorded live. When she was 17, Franklin’s father decided that after five years of singing with his traveling gospel show, she was ready to pursue her singing in New York City.
In 1967, the year “Respect” hit the charts, Franklin was crowned “Queen of Soul” by Chicago DJ Pervis Spann. From there Aretha would come to have 20 number one R&B hits and garner more than 20 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her record labels include Columbia, Atlantic and Arista among others. She never recorded for Motown Records.
Franklin had many honors bestowed upon her, such as singing at the inaugurations of three U.S. Presidents, and being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987. Her song “Respect,” was described as “an anthem for the Civil Rights movement,” and in February 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. presented her with an honorary award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She sang at his funeral two months later.
Though her career continued to rise, Franklin’s personal life was somewhat troubled at times. Her marriage to Ted White ended in 1969. In 1979 her father was shot in his home and remained in a coma for five years before dying. Even with those hardships, Franklin continued to thrive, being nominated for or winning Grammy Awards over four decades. In 1980, she even made a cameo appearance in the film, The Blues Brothers.
In 1985 Aretha Franklin made a comeback with her 30th album, Who’s Zoomin’ Who? She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. In 2008 she became MusiCares’ “Person of the Year” and she won her 21st Grammy at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
Franklin had four sons and was married and divorced two times. She died on August 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer and lay in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and New Bethel Baptist Church for three days. Her funeral service, attended by Smokey Robinson, President Bill Clinton, the Reverend Jessie Jackson and Stevie Wonder among other dignitaries, was broadcast live on Detroit television stations. The Detroit riverfront arena Chene Park was renamed the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre in her honor.
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Get more information for Aretha Franklin Birthplace in Memphis, TN. See reviews, map, get the address, and find directions.
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The Aretha Franklin Birthplace in Memphis, TN is a historic site dedicated to honoring the life and legacy of the legendary singer. Visitors can explore exhibits and learn about the early years of Aretha Franklin's upbringing in this iconic location.
With a focus on preserving the history of one of music's most influential figures, the Aretha Franklin Birthplace offers a glimpse into the roots of a cultural icon. Guests can immerse themselves in the rich heritage and impact of Aretha Franklin's upbringing through informative displays and interactive experiences.
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From CityLab: Following Aretha Franklin's death, Memphis, Tennessee, is debating how to best honor the humble house the singer was born in.
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This post originally appeared on CityLab. Find the original here.
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on the same date that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, passed away: August 16. Both had a connection to Memphis—Franklin was born there, while Presley died there. Much of the focus on Franklin’s death has been on Detroit, where she lived most of her life, but Memphis is hoping that its connection to the Queen is not lost.
Days after her death, Franklin’s fans lined up outside of the small wooden cottage house in south Memphis where she was born to hold vigils and pay respects. Community developers are hoping they can turn that house into a place that honors Franklin’s life. The house is equally known in Memphis for its connection to her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, a charismatic pastor, civil rights activist, and gospel music icon in his own right.
It hasn’t been inhabited in years and half of it was extensively damaged from a fire. It was in such disrepair that the city of Memphis deemed it a nuisance property in 2012 and slated it for demolition in 2016. It was spared that year after Higgs and preservation organizations promised to come up with a restoration plan for it. Higgs said the community groups he’s been working with on those plans have finally “nailed that down,” but the main problem with moving forward is getting the Franklin family’s blessing—a prospect dimmed by the fact that now both Aretha and her father are deceased.
“Our biggest roadblock is that we have not gotten permission from anybody in the family to say, ‘OK, yes, you can use her name and likeness, and we’ll give you some pictures and memorabilia,’” said Higgs.
Among those projects is the revamped Stax Records studio—where soul legends Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, and Carla Thomas recorded—that has been repurposed into a museum, with neighboring affiliated music schools. The CDC also helped save the home of blues artist John “Peter” Chatman aka “Memphis Slim,” and converted it into an art gallery and work space for musicians called the “Memphis Slim Collaboratory.” The community development financial institution Community LIFT has been instrumental in leveraging funding to make it all happen.
The Aretha Franklin house has been a little trickier to rehab, though, and not just because of ownership issues with the Franklin name, but also with the property itself. According to Shelby County records the property is owned by a woman named Vera House, whose family has reportedly been involved in its upkeep over the years. However, a court appointed the Lemoyne-Owen College CDC as the official receiver of the property in 2016, which means it has the rights to make modifications to it.
Also, this is not the first rescue attempt for the house. In 2011, several media outlets reported that a man named Herb Jackson was raising funds through a philanthropy called The R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Foundation to turn the house into a museum. There was a website for this, arethafranklinbirthplace.com, but it no longer exists. Looking at old versions of the site from the Wayback Archive, it says the museum would:
Include a community room that would be utilized for meetings, tutoring neighborhood school children (possibly by local area college students), mentoring meetings and programs (to include local churches, government and business leaders, NBA players and other athletes). There will also be a snack area and gift shop. The most beneficial area of this project is how it would assist the community and interact with the neighborhood. It will not only bring tourism, but it will bring jobs to the area.
“Aretha Franklin rose from a small home at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis to become the Queen of Soul,” said Mayor Strickland in a statement to CityLab when asked about the city’s plans for the house. “Today, we mourn her loss and celebrate the spirit she brought to this world.”
But the city wouldn’t comment on any specifics beyond that. The budget for the latest Franklin house proposal is modest—roughly $150,000, said Higgs, which shouldn’t be difficult to reach in a city that has staked much of its destination appeal on its music and civil rights bona fides. Graceland is currently amidst its own multi-million-dollar expansion that is being partially funded with public money. The city seems to be pushing back a bit on that, but the Shelby County Commission voted seven to one in June to allow it to move forward.
Besides Graceland, Memphis also has the world-renowned Beale Street corridor, replete with venues that honor recording artist legends such as B. B. King, Ma Rainey, and Robert Johnson. The entertainment district recently had its own expansion with the addition of Beale Street Landing, a six-acre “multi-amenity riverfront development” that cost roughly $43 million to complete, covered in part by city and other public funds. The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, is now a civil rights museum that expanded in 2014 and became a Smithsonian affiliate in 2016. It would seem that a museum commemorating a family like the Franklins, who were so instrumental in the nation’s musical and civil rights narratives, would have no problem finding financial support in a city that is central to both legacies.
However, the efforts to restore the Franklin house and revitalize surrounding South Memphis neighborhoods is not connected to those city tourist enterprises, and Higgs said that’s intentional. He’s concerned that those larger-scale downtown Memphis projects are increasing housing costs and elevating risks of displacement. The plans for south Memphis, including the Franklin house, are more “strategic,” said Higgs, to ensure that low-income and long-time residents will benefit.
“We don’t need anyone coming in gentrifying us, we know how to gentrify on our own,” said Higgs. “That inner-city movement [development] is happening all around us, but we’ve been doing this work for awhile now, so we know how to do it ourselves. We want to preserve the nature of what our community was and what it continues to be.”
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit, snagging Aretha Franklin's childhood home for $355,000.
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit after snagging late music legend Aretha Franklin‘s childhood home for $355,000.
Records show the sale closed Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to buyers who purchased the home for less than the initial asking price, TMZ reports, of $379,000.
The three-story home in Detroit’s historic La Salle Gardens comes with six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and 6,000 square feet of living space. A spacious front yard and backyard surround the brick-covered foundation of the home. There are fireplaces and hardwood floors throughout as well as space to fit another bedroom.
The late “Queen of Soul” lived in the home from ages 5 to 18 and had fond memories from her time in the dwelling. In 2011, Franklin revisited the home and recalled her days growing up in Detroit. Franklin shared a special bond with the home and owned it despite not living in it for years.
The “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” singer was actually born in a tiny wooden home in Memphis in 1942, but left the city when she was just two years old. In 2017, the Memphis Mayor’s office made a bid to preserve the home and turn it into a landmark, according to Architectural Digest.
Franklin’s family moved to New York from Memphis. In 1947, her father, Reverend Clarence Franklin, became pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit and moved his family of five to Michigan.
In 1952, eight days before Aretha’s 10th birthday, her mother died. At age 12, she started singing in her father’s church and would join him on the road, singing gospel in his caravan shows. By the time she turned 18 in 1960, Franklin was ready to pursue a singing career and the rest is history. Franklin died in 2018.
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Aretha Franklin singer, Memphis Tennessee - Born March 25, 1942. She has been dubbed for years " The Queen Of Soul " but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the even more affectionate "Sister Re." As a child, Aretha moved from Tennessee to New York and then to Detroit. At age 14, she made her first recordings in a local Detroit church. She ten had her first two sons around this time. Clarence, Jr. was born when she was 15 and Edward "Eddie" was born when she was 16. She dropped out of high school soon after the birth of her second son. Her grandmother took in her sons to help Aretha move on in her career. Among her most successful hit singles from the 60's and 70's were "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)", "Think", "Baby, I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect", which became her signature song. She currently lives in Detroit when she is not on tour.
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Celebrated and known worldwide as the Queen of Soul. Despite the fact that she was one of the most famous people on the planet with one of the most distinctive voices the music industry has ever heard, there are still a few things that seem surprising about Aretha Franklin’s remarkable life.
Born Aretha Louise Franklin on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, she learned to play piano entirely by ear. She was self-taught, but came to it naturally, as her mother was a fine pianist and singer herself.
Aretha’s mother passed away before Aretha reached age 10. Several women stepped up to help take care of the Franklin kids, including gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.
Aretha’s father was a preacher and gospel singer, and visitors to the Franklin household included the likes of Sam Cooke, James Cleveland, Clara Ward, Jackie Wilson, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the hits for which Aretha became best known, “Respect,” was originally recorded in 1967 by Otis Redding, who wrote the song.
In 1987, Aretha was the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Gospel Music Association’s Hall of Fame, the NAACP Hall of Fame, the Apollo Theater Legends Hall of Fame, and the UK Music Hall of Fame.
Aretha performed at the inauguration of no less than three U.S. presidents: Jimmy Carter (1977), Bill Clinton (1992), and Barack Obama (2009).
Aretha gave a command performance before Queen Elizabeth II at Royal Albert Hall in 1980.
At her peak, Aretha boasted an astonishing four-octave vocal range.
Aretha was nominated for Grammy Awards 44 times, with 18 wins and three additional special Grammys to her credit.
On Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the Greatest Singers of All Time, Aretha Franklin is number one.
—Eric Skelly for the Houston Symphony 2022
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Cord Martin loves jazz.
The Whitthorne Middle School Band Director, one of two, has been playing saxophone since he himself was a student in the band there. Tonight, however, he has his sights set on a bigger platform: the stage at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, playing with the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra will be supporting Franklin, and Martin got the call to join the horn section about three weeks ago.
Martin explained that his connection to the Symphony began back in his days as a student at MTSU. “As soon as I got to my upperclassman years,” Martin said, “I started getting calls to sub for different horn players in Nashville.” Some of these calls turned into long-term gigs, which Martin said he obtained by “trying to work hard and trying to be as professional as possible.”
His work paid off, as he met and developed a professional relationship with Lloyd Barry, an arranger and composer who regularly organizes professional horn players, Martin says. It was Barry who recommended him to the Symphony for this concert.
Barry telephoned Martin to see if he was available. Martin recalls the September conversation: “He was like ‘Cord, how’s it going?’ I said, ‘Everything’s good.’ He said, ‘Man, how are your flute chops? Can you read well?’” Martin, in true jazzman style, said, “Yeah. Yeah, I can hang.”
A week or so after that call, the Symphony emailed Martin and the gig was set.
“I haven’t really told anyone,” Martin said. “I’m just grateful for the opportunity. I know that I have practiced and prepared myself for this moment, but it still feels like it’s surreal.”
Martin did mention the upcoming show to some of the students in the Whitthorne Jazz Band , and a few of them didn’t quite grasp the concept of who Aretha Franklin is. Others, though, immediately connected her with the song “Respect,” which they have heard, and were excited.
“You can’t not be (an Aretha fan) doing the type of stuff that I do. Being a horn player, most of those pop horn lines, you have to learn them,” Martin explained.
“Her music is timeless. I haven’t dug deep into her discography or anything like that, but I am a big fan. And growing up in the church, she definitely has the gospel roots, so that just kind of resonates with me.”
As much as Martin loves jazz, he loves his job more. He never wants to stop performing, but his priority is teaching.
“I always want to teach, because I see the importance of it,” Martin explains. “I can play for thousands, like I’m going to be doing tomorrow, playing in an awesome venue, but when I come in here, and I’m down in the trenches, actually teaching students how to make a sound for the first time, and to see them develop and grow, to potentially make more performers that can spread the music, that’s what it’s about to me, the gift of music.”
He has to take some of his own lessons to heart this week.
“A lot of the stuff I tell my students about the importance of being able to read and sight-read, I feel like it’s really hitting home for me, even now. I’m having to practice what I preach to them,” Martin said.
He won’t have a chance to see the music until the three-hour rehearsal today, the first and only rehearsal for the show. This isn’t uncommon when players are contracted out to orchestras, common practices for instruments not usually in orchestral arrangements.
Martin will be part of a four-piece horn section made up of alto, tenor and baritone saxophone players. They’ll all also be “doubling,” or playing other instruments in the same show, on clarinet and flute as necessary for the arrangements. Martin’s main instrument is tenor sax, but he has had opportunities to play and record on alto, soprano and baritone sax as well.
Of his co-performers, Martin says “it’s pretty crazy.”
“I’ve met all the other people that I’m playing with and they are A-list, normally get-the-first-call players. So for me to be considered, and to be on stage with those horn players, means a lot,” said Martin.
Part of his preparation for the show includes research. “I’ve been looking at a lot of live performances just to try to see if I can hear what the horns might be like, and kind of what her personality is like on stage,” Martin said. “I’m excited, I’m very excited.”
Martin started on alto sax when he was in the sixth grade, but that wasn’t his first brush with music. His grandmother, a long-time piano player, signed him up for piano lessons when he was in third grade so he could help with rehearsals for the church choir.
In high school, he realized how important music really is to him, and decided to pursue a career in performance. He earned a music scholarship to MTSU. After graduation, Martin moved back to Columbia to substitute in the school district before becoming a full-time band director in the fall of 2011. He’s been praised for his work with Brian Webster, the other Whitthorne Band Director, in building a jazz band at the middle school, a unique group for that age level.
Present members and alumni of the Whitthorne Jazz Band were in the lineup for last week’s Muletown MusicFest. The group was supposed to perform on the courthouse steps Saturday, but were moved inside due to the rain.
“It actually worked out better,” said Martin. “The atmosphere was amazing in Puckett’s. The few (students) that stayed around afterwards, (said) they felt like they were professionals, many of them, just being able to play on a stage.”
Most of them had never performed outside of the Whitthorne gym or the Central High School Auditorium, so this was their first real chance to perform in the community.
Martin loved the festival.
“To see some of those students rise to the occasion, it was like they really understood what it was like to perform outside of learning it in a big band situation. Just to see that kids are being passionate about it, and you’re sharing your passion, and you see them wanting to do more, too, it’s a good feeling. I really felt it last Saturday, it was just awesome to see the kids do as well as they did.”
As for his own performance? Martin said he’s ready, but that he still feels butterflies.
“It is a sold out show, I couldn’t even get comp tickets for my wife. It’s gonna be a full house, and I’m thankful for the opportunity.”
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Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title "the Queen of Soul," has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76.
Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin's family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn.
The "official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit," the family statement said.
PHOTOS: REMEMBERING ARETHA FRANKLIN
Tributes and tears flooded in Thursday after news of her death broke.
"Aretha helped define the American experience," former President Barack Obama said in a statement. "In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade -- our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace."
READ MORE CELEBRITY TRIBUTES HERE
Legendary soul singer and Franklin's friend of more than sixty years, Sam Moore, had words of sorrow and comfort to offer.
"I adored her and I know the feelings were mutual. While I'm heartbroken that she's gone I know she's in the Lord's arms and she's not in pain or suffering anymore from the damn cancer that took her away from us," he said in a statement. "I'm going to hope, pray and count on the fact that I will see her again sometime. Rest in the Lord's arms in love, Re."
Franklin's fans paid tribute with flowers and a crown left on her Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Los Angeles.
Her death comes three days after a source close to Franklin told CNN's Don Lemon that the singer was in hospice care.
"In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds," Franklin's family said.
"We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time."
Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days, the statement said.
The singer had been reported to be in failing health for years and appeared frail in recent photos, but she kept her struggles private.
In February 2017, Franklin announced she would stop touring, but she continued to book concerts. Earlier this year, she canceled a pair of performances, including at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, on doctor's orders, according to Rolling Stone.
The singer's final public performance was last November, when she sang at an Elton John AIDS Foundation gala in New York.
Sing it: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Over the course of a professional career that spanned more than half a century, Franklin's songs not only topped the charts but became part of the vernacular.
She made "Respect," written by Otis Redding, a call to arms. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," a Carole King song, was an earthy expression of sexuality. "Think," which she wrote with her then-husband, Ted White, became a rallying cry for women fed up with loutish men.
The first woman admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she had 88 Billboard chart hits during the rock era, tops among female vocalists. At the peak of her career -- from 1967 to 1975 -- she had more than two dozen Top 40 hits.
"Aretha Franklin is not only the definitive female soul singer of the Sixties," according to her Rolling Stone biography, "she's also one of the most influential and important voices in pop history."
She won 18 Grammy awards, including the honor for best female R&B performance for eight straight years.
There was nothing run-of-the-mill about a Franklin performance. "I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)" is slinky and gritty, Franklin's voice sometimes a whisper over Spooner Oldham's electric piano.
"The House That Jack Built" fairly crackles: "I got the house / I got the car / I got the rug / And I got the rack / But I ain't got Jack," Franklin belts.
In Franklin's delivery, "Eleanor Rigby" was a figure of defiance; with Franklin's voice, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" went places not even Art Garfunkel, whose angelic tenor dominated Simon & Garfunkel's original version, could take it.
Her soul was as deep as her voice was strong.
"I think of Aretha as 'Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,'" wrote the late Jerry Wexler, Franklin's producer at Atlantic Records. "Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain. Her depressions could be as deep as the dark sea. I don't pretend to know the sources of her anguish, but anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura."
A recording career at 14
Perhaps more than any other soul star, Franklin's voice embodied the music's debt to gospel.
She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, but was raised mostly in Detroit, where her father, C.L. Franklin, was a prominent minister and a nationally known gospel singer. Franklin sang in the choir of her father's church and, though she declined her dad's offer of piano lessons and taught herself instead, began recording gospel music at age 14.
She toured the gospel circuit with her father, befriending stars such as Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. She later performed at Jackson's funeral.
She was signed to Columbia Records in 1960 by John Hammond, the eagle-eyed talent scout who also discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, but she had only limited success at the label. It wasn't until her arrival at Atlantic Records in the decade's second half that she gave up trying to become a polished all-purpose entertainer for a career as a soul and R&B singer, backed by an earthy rhythm section from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
"The backup musicians provided a much grittier, soulful and R&B-based accompaniment for Aretha's voice," according to the All Music Guide, "which soared with a passion and intensity suggesting a spirit that had been allowed to fly loose for the first time."
Over a year-and-a-half stretch from 1967 to 1968, Franklin racked up 10 Top Ten hits.
"It had looked for the longest time like I would never have a gold record," she told Time magazine in 1968. "I wanted one so bad."
Songs like "Respect" were not only huge sellers, they were also adopted by African-Americans and feminists as anthems for social change.
Civil rights icon and US Rep. John Lewis recalled Franklin's "unwavering" commitment to the movement.
"What made her talent so great was her capacity to live what she sang," Franklin said in a statement Thursday. "Her music was deepened by her connection to the struggles and the triumphs of the African American experience growing up in her father's church, the community of Detroit, and her awareness of the turmoil of the South."
After Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Franklin sang at his funeral.
The hits kept coming throughout the early 1970s, including "Spanish Harlem" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
By the late '70s, Franklin's star power began to wane, as the golden age of soul ended and as critics and fans became less enthusiastic about her continuing output. However, she re-emerged in the 1980s, releasing the 1985 album "Who's Zoomin' Who?", which spawned the hit "Freeway of Love."
She also collaborated with the Eurythmics on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" and British pop star George Michael on the smash duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)." The latter hit No. 1, her last chart-topper.
"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback," she said at the time. "Who's Zoomin' Who" was released, she said, "because I've never been away."
Personal pain lent depth to her music
Franklin's reportedly tumultuous personal life, meanwhile -- she was twice divorced and had brushes with the law -- was shrouded in secrecy.
She was the mother of four sons -- she gave birth to the first at 15 and the second at 17, according to a 1995 Ebony magazine profile. The article depicted her as a warm, down-to-earth woman with a crackling sense of humor, who answered the door in bare feet and confided her diet secret was a combination of Slim-Fast and younger men. She also was reportedly an accomplished cook, telling Ebony, "I can wear some chitlins out."
The Ebony profile suggested the source of some of that pain might have been Franklin's growing up largely without a mother -- Barbara Franklin left the family in 1948, when Franklin was 6, and died four years later -- or the anguish of losing her father.
C.L. Franklin was shot in his home by burglars in 1979 and lived for five years in a semi-coma before dying, the magazine said. Asked the toughest decision she ever had to make, Franklin told Ebony, "It was when my dad was in the hospital," and began to cry.
But Franklin's lows and the emotion involved fueled her music. She saw a number of resurgences in the past three decades and her image as a pop icon endured, with President Barack Obama featuring her singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at his inauguration in 2009. She also performed at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1992.
Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2005. In 1986, her voice was declared a national resource by the Michigan Legislature. She even had an asteroid named for her.
"She looks rested and relaxed, like a housewife headed out to do some shopping at the local K-Mart," Ebony reporter Laura Randolph wrote in the 1995 profile. "There, or at the Woolworth's Five and Dime where, she recalls, she's spent many an afternoon 'browsing and buying knick-knacks' then 'sitting down at the counter to a scrumptious turkey and dressing plate with mashed potatoes oozing with gravy and loving it.' "
Health issues derailed her late career
Franklin battled health issues in recent years, struggling with weight gain and associated ailments.
In August 2010, she canceled two free concerts in New York because of "fractured ribs and pain in the abdomen," spokeswoman Gwendolyn Quinn said, adding that Franklin's doctors had told her to come in for tests immediately.
That November, her doctors ordered her to cancel all personal appearances for the next six months, the Detroit Free Press reported. In early December, Franklin underwent surgery deemed "highly successful."
She also canceled some appearances in 2013.
However, she recovered enough to return to touring in 2014, including a performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall. She'd also lost almost 100 pounds.
"It's fun buying new clothes!" she told USA Today. "I couldn't stay out of the mirror, just turning every way. This is my natural weight."
As for her old wardrobe? The shopper knew exactly what to do with those outfits.
"I'm thinking of giving them to a resale shop," Franklin said.
Her final album, "A Brand New Me," paired Franklin's original recordings of some of her greatest hits with modern musical arrangements from London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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"Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin passed away at her home in Detroit on Thursday, her publicist told The Associated Press. She was 76.
The cause was pancreatic cancer.
The “Respect” singer was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1942 and began her career as a little girl singing gospel in Detroit after her family relocated from Memphis to Buffalo and then to the Motor City.
Franklin was born with musical roots, as her mother, Barbara Siggers Franklin, was a pianist and vocalist, and her father, Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, was a pastor.
By the time Aretha Franklin was 18, she began touring with singer Sam Cooke and began recording demos, one of which ended up in the office of Columbia Records, which signed her in 1960.
A year after signing with Columbia, Franklin entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the sing “Won’t Be Long,” which later peaked at No. 7.
After a handful of hits, Franklin started earning $100,000 for performances and attention for the singer was bigger than ever. By 1966, she left Columbia and signed with Atlantic Records, with whom she eventually recorded one of her biggest hits – her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect.”
Franklin would later go on to sell over 75 million records in her career, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. She would also win a total of 18 Grammys, and in 1987, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She has been named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Outside of music, Franklin was also a civil rights advocate, and in 2005, President George W. Bush honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.
She was married twice, first to Ted White, to whom she said “I do” to in 1961. They later divorced in 1969. In 1978, she married Glynn Turman. They divorced in 1984.
Franklin is survived by her four sons, whom she had with four different men.
When the singer was 12, she gave birth to Clarence Franklin Jr., after having a relationship with a classmate from school, Donald Burk. She was 14 when she had her second son, Edward Jordan, Jr., after have a relationship with the boy’s father.
In 1964, she had a child with her first husband and named the boy after him. The boy, who also goes by the name Teddy Richards, often played guitar in his mother’s band.
Her youngest son, Kecalf Cunningham, was born in 1970 after she had a relationship with road manager Ken Cunningham.
In recent years, the singer had battled health problems which has forced her to cancel a number of concerts and performances.
One of her last performances was in November 2017 when she performed in New York City at an Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit.
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•March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in Detroit when Aretha was 2. She would call the city home for most of her life, and would always be closely associated with its massive musical legacy.
•1956 — Franklin releases her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith," recorded at her father's church when she was 14.
•1961 — Franklin marries her manager, Ted White. Their troubled eight-year union is believed to have inspired her performances on many songs.
•February 1961 — Franklin releases her first album for Columbia Records. She would have only minor hits in her six years with the label, which pushed her toward jazz and show tunes and away from her gospel roots.
•November 1966 — Franklin signs with Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler encourages her to embrace her classic soul-and-gospel sound. Several classic songs immediately followed, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."
•February 1967 — "Respect," Franklin's career-defining anthem, is recorded. The song would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. A month later it would be the opening track on her breakthrough album, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."
•June 1972 — A live gospel album, "Amazing Grace," is released amid a revival in spiritual music. It sold more than 2 million copies and is among Franklin's biggest hits.
•January 1977 — Franklin sings "God Bless America" at the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.
•June 1980 — The hit film comedy "The Blues Brothers" is released, with Franklin appearing and singing "Think" in one of the film's most popular scenes. It signaled that the 1980s would bring a career revival.
•July 1985 — "Freeway of Love" off of Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who" album, becomes her first top 10 hit in more than a decade.
•January 1987 — Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
•April 1987 — "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)," a duet with George Michael, reaches No. 1 on the pop chart.
•December 1994 — Franklin, at age 52, becomes the youngest person ever chosen for the Kennedy Center honors. In his tribute, President Bill Clinton said he and the first lady considered her among their favorite artists. "You could say that Hillary and I went to college and law school with Aretha because there was scarcely a day when we didn't listen to one of her songs," said the president.
•September 1999 — She receives the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award from President Bill Clinton, who says Franklin "brought sunshine to a rainy day and tenderness to a hardened heart."
•November 2005 — President George Bush presents her with the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.
•February 2008 — Franklin wins her last Grammy Award — her 18th — for Best Gospel Performance for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and a Living Legend awardee.
•January 2009 — Franklin sings "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
•October 2014 — Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" reaches No. 47 on Billboard's R&B chart. It's her 100th charting single, and she's the first woman to reach the milestone.
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So, it's hard to understate the impact of the American singer, musician and civil rights activist.
Where was Aretha Franklin from?
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, to the famous Baptist preacher C. L. Franklin and Barbara Sigger Franklin in 1942, Aretha began her career as a gospel singer in Detroit in her father's church, where she was also friends and neighbours with Berry Gordy Jr and Smokey Robinson.
Franklin was considered a child prodigy from an early age, leading to a series of gospel recordings before she landed her first recording contract with Columbia, with whom she released her 1961 debut Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo at the age of 19.
How did Aretha Franklin become famous?
However, it wasn't until Aretha joined Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records, that Aretha fully unlocked her full, soul-filled musical potential from 1967 to 1979, releasing hits such as 'I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)' (1967), 'Respect' (1967), 'Think' (1968) and 'I Say a Little Prayer' (1968).
Her chart dominance during this time soon earned her the title "Queen of Soul" whilst simultaneously becoming a leading symbol in the civil rights movement, even singing at Martin Luther King Jr's funeral.
In the 1970s, the singer began working with producers such as Quincy Jones and Curtis Mayfield, before her career started to fade with the rise of disco.
By the early 1980s, and after a cameo in The Blues Brothers (1980), Aretha had signed to Arista with whom she stayed with for 23 years and saw a resurgence of more pop-orientated hits, including collaborations with The Eurythmics and George Michael.
Was Aretha Franklin married?
Aretha was married twice - first to her manager Ted White in 1961 at the age of 18. They divorced in 1969, and she married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 and they divorced in 1984.
She also had four sons. Her first child was born in 1955 and named Clarence after her father, and his paternity was only discovered in 2019 to be Edward John, who was also the father of her second son, Edward Derone Franklin, born in 1957. She shared her third son, Ted White Jr., with her first husband, born in 1964 and is now known as Teddy Richards, and her fourth son is Kecalf Cunningham who was born in 1970 to Aretha and her road manager Ken Cunningham.
When did Aretha Franklin pass away?
The singer remained musically active until 2017, but her career was ultimately curbed because of her declining health, where she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on 16th August 2018.
Whether it was performing soul, R & B, gospel or pop, Aretha Franklin had a monumental impact within the 20th century, and many of her songs are still revered today.
Which are Aretha Franklin's best-known songs?
Aretha Franklin: 'Respect'
Of course, 'Respect' is one of Aretha Franklin's most iconic songs. The song is actually a cover of Otis Redding's song from 1965. Aretha's version was released in 1967, and the song was very successful, reaching Number 10 in the UK, and Number 1 in the USA.
Aretha Franklin: 'I Say a Little Prayer'
Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and originally released by Dionne Warwick in 1967, Aretha covered it with huge success just a year later.
Although it was a B-side and a cover, 'I Say a Little Prayer' was a hugely popular song for Aretha here in the UK, reaching Number 4 in 1968. It became so popular that despite being a B-side it received a lot of airplay on the radio and continues to be well-known Aretha song to this day.
Aretha Franklin: 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves'
Released in 1985 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves' with the Eurythmics was another Top 10 song for Aretha Franklin. The female anthem was written by the Eurythmics and featured on their 'Be Yourself Tonight' album along with Aretha's 'Who's Zoomin' Who?'.
Since its original release, the song has been covered a number of times, including by the Spice Girls and Hazell Dean in 1998, and The Pointer Sisters in 2005.
Aretha Franklin: 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)' with George Michael
One of Aretha Franklin's most popular songs was 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)' with George Michael. The song reached Number 1 around the world, including the UK.
Aretha Franklin: '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman'
One of Aretha's most iconic love songs, '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' was released in 1967, having been written specifically for Aretha by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Many other artists have covered the track since its original release including songwriter Carole, Peggy Lipton, George Benson, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart and Mary J. Blige among many others.
Aretha Franklin: 'Chain of Fools'
Aretha first recorded 'Chain of Fools' in 1967. The track was originally written by singer-songwriter Don Covay for Otis Redding, but Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler gave it to Aretha instead. She won the Grammy Award for Best Female R & B Vocal Performance for the song.
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Aretha Franklin wins posthumous Pulitzer Prize
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So, it's hard to understate the impact of the American singer, musician and civil rights activist.
Where was Aretha Franklin from?
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, to the famous Baptist preacher C. L. Franklin and Barbara Sigger Franklin in 1942, Aretha began her career as a gospel singer in Detroit in her father's church, where she was also friends and neighbours with Berry Gordy Jr and Smokey Robinson.
Franklin was considered a child prodigy from an early age, leading to a series of gospel recordings before she landed her first recording contract with Columbia, with whom she released her 1961 debut Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo at the age of 19.
How did Aretha Franklin become famous?
However, it wasn't until Aretha joined Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records, that Aretha fully unlocked her full, soul-filled musical potential from 1967 to 1979, releasing hits such as 'I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)' (1967), 'Respect' (1967), 'Think' (1968) and 'I Say a Little Prayer' (1968).
Her chart dominance during this time soon earned her the title "Queen of Soul" whilst simultaneously becoming a leading symbol in the civil rights movement, even singing at Martin Luther King Jr's funeral.
In the 1970s, the singer began working with producers such as Quincy Jones and Curtis Mayfield, before her career started to fade with the rise of disco.
By the early 1980s, and after a cameo in The Blues Brothers (1980), Aretha had signed to Arista with whom she stayed with for 23 years and saw a resurgence of more pop-orientated hits, including collaborations with The Eurythmics and George Michael.
Was Aretha Franklin married?
Aretha was married twice - first to her manager Ted White in 1961 at the age of 18. They divorced in 1969, and she married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 and they divorced in 1984.
She also had four sons. Her first child was born in 1955 and named Clarence after her father, and his paternity was only discovered in 2019 to be Edward John, who was also the father of her second son, Edward Derone Franklin, born in 1957. She shared her third son, Ted White Jr., with her first husband, born in 1964 and is now known as Teddy Richards, and her fourth son is Kecalf Cunningham who was born in 1970 to Aretha and her road manager Ken Cunningham.
When did Aretha Franklin pass away?
The singer remained musically active until 2017, but her career was ultimately curbed because of her declining health, where she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on 16th August 2018.
Whether it was performing soul, R & B, gospel or pop, Aretha Franklin had a monumental impact within the 20th century, and many of her songs are still revered today.
Which are Aretha Franklin's best-known songs?
Aretha Franklin: 'Respect'
Of course, 'Respect' is one of Aretha Franklin's most iconic songs. The song is actually a cover of Otis Redding's song from 1965. Aretha's version was released in 1967, and the song was very successful, reaching Number 10 in the UK, and Number 1 in the USA.
Aretha Franklin: 'I Say a Little Prayer'
Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and originally released by Dionne Warwick in 1967, Aretha covered it with huge success just a year later.
Although it was a B-side and a cover, 'I Say a Little Prayer' was a hugely popular song for Aretha here in the UK, reaching Number 4 in 1968. It became so popular that despite being a B-side it received a lot of airplay on the radio and continues to be well-known Aretha song to this day.
Aretha Franklin: 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves'
Released in 1985 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves' with the Eurythmics was another Top 10 song for Aretha Franklin. The female anthem was written by the Eurythmics and featured on their 'Be Yourself Tonight' album along with Aretha's 'Who's Zoomin' Who?'.
Since its original release, the song has been covered a number of times, including by the Spice Girls and Hazell Dean in 1998, and The Pointer Sisters in 2005.
Aretha Franklin: 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)' with George Michael
One of Aretha Franklin's most popular songs was 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)' with George Michael. The song reached Number 1 around the world, including the UK.
Aretha Franklin: '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman'
One of Aretha's most iconic love songs, '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' was released in 1967, having been written specifically for Aretha by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Many other artists have covered the track since its original release including songwriter Carole, Peggy Lipton, George Benson, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart and Mary J. Blige among many others.
Aretha Franklin: 'Chain of Fools'
Aretha first recorded 'Chain of Fools' in 1967. The track was originally written by singer-songwriter Don Covay for Otis Redding, but Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler gave it to Aretha instead. She won the Grammy Award for Best Female R & B Vocal Performance for the song.
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Read more:
WATCH: Aretha Franklin RESPECT trailer
Aretha Franklin wins posthumous Pulitzer Prize
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Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Barbara (née) Siggers and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Her father, who went by the nickname, “C. L.”, was an itinerant preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Alongside Franklin, her parents had three other children while both C. L. and Barbara had children from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York when Franklin was two. Prior to her fifth birthday, C. L. Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he founded the Baptist church, New Bethel. Franklin’s parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of C. L. Franklin’s philandering and in 1948, they separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship.
Contrary to popular notion, Franklin’s mother did not abandon her children and Franklin would recall seeing her mother in Buffalo during summertime while Barbara also frequently visited her children in Detroit. Franklin’s mother died on March 7, 1952, prior to Franklin’s tenth birthday. Several women, including Franklin’s grandmother Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Franklin learned how to play piano by ear. Franklin’s father’s emotionally driven sermons resulted in him being known as the man with the “million-dollar voice” and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. Franklin’s celebrity led to his home being visited by various celebrities including gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews as well as Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke.
Music Career Beginnings
Just after her mother’s death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, “Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me”. Four years later, when Franklin was 14, her father began managing her, bringing her on the road with him during his so-called “gospel caravan” tours for her to perform in various churches. He helped his daughter get signed to her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was issued in 1956. Two singles were released to gospel radio stations including “Never Grow Old” and “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”. Franklin sometimes traveled with The Caravans and The Soul Stirrers during this time and developed a crush on Sam Cooke, who was then singing with the Soul Stirrers prior to his secular career.
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke to record pop music. Serving as her manager, C. L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960. Franklin was signed as a “five-percent artist”.During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin’s father to have his label, RCA sign Franklin. He had also been persuaded by local record label owner Berry Gordy to sign Franklin and her elder sister Erma to his Tamla label. Franklin’s father felt the label was not established enough yet. Franklin’s first Columbia single, “Today I Sing the Blues”, was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top ten of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.
Franklin moved back to Detroit from New York City into this suburban colonial (built in ’49) in the early ’60s, her toddlers and hustler-hubby-manager Ted White in tow. She was still signed to Columbia Records doing pop and jazz standards. The family lived here for a number of years in the ’60s, until Aretha hit it huge on Atlantic, and neighbors complained of the noise from all-night parties and parked cars clogging sides of the street.
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She sang about respect, and she earned it. Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 25, 1942.
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MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - She sang about respect, and she earned it.
Aretha Franklin died Thursday after several days on hospice care.
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 25, 1942.
She lived in a cottage home on Lucy Avenue, a home now recognized by the city as a historic landmark.
Moments after her death was announced, fans flocked to her childhood home to leave flowers and words of love on the building's exterior.
"Just devastated. Just devastated, but I've been trying to prepare myself for it because I knew this day would come," Anthony Prather said.
"I don't know; it's like a part of Memphis is dying. I don't know; I just felt moved," Erica Qualy said.
August 16 is a day of mourning in Memphis--and for music fans around the world. In addition to now being the date Aretha Franklin died, it's also the day Elvis Presley died.
"Two of the greatest people died on this day is tragic. It really stinks, but like we remember them by playing their music everyday and their greatest hits," Erica Stephenson said.
Elvis fans were already in the Bluff City remembering the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Music experts said August 16 will go down as a bittersweet day for the city.
"Every year as it rolls around--we get through celebrating Memphis in May and we get through celebrating Live at the Garden--August 16 is always going to roll around. It's always going to be a bittersweet day for Memphis, Tennessee, because we lost two of the greatest musicians that might have ever walked the Earth," Memphis Rock and Soul Museum Executive Director John Doyle said.
Unlike Elvis, Franklin spent just a few years in the Bluff City. Her father, a Baptist preacher, moved the family to Detroit shortly after she was born.
Her musical talents encompassed not only a powerhouse voice; she was also a gifted pianist.
By age 14, she recorded some of her earliest music in church.
"Her music has a lot of roots in gospel, so it really gets to your core being and when she plays the piano, it's phenomenal," Boo Mitchell said.
Mitchell, Royal Studios' co-owner, has fond memories of his father Willie Mitchell's time with Franklin.
"My dad and my Uncle James and I think the rest of the Memphis Horns would go to most of her shows and do sessions for her," Mitchell said. "She sent my dad something for his wedding anniversary and I can't remember what it was but she signed the card to the maestro."
Franklin later visited New York and signed with Columbia Records.
Her 1967 cover version of Otis Redding's "Respect," written in Memphis at Stax Record Company, helped catapult her to fame.
"And now it's number five on the Rolling Stones' Top 500 Songs of All Time," Tim Sampson, communications director at Stax Museum of American Soul Music, said.
"Next door at the Stax Music Academy, the kids learn a lot of Aretha Franklin's music, and when they do, you can tell that they feel very honored to be performing music by somebody like Aretha Franklin," Sampson said.
Franklin won a Grammy for her cover of Sam and Dave's Hold On, I'm Comin', which was written by David Porter and Issac Hayes.
"I was a friend and just a huge fan as well," Porter said. "There's certainly a spirit in this community--because of Memphis as a community--that's grounded in music credibility to have had the wonderful gift of the life of Aretha Franklin born in this city."
Franklin's dominance on the charts earned her the title "Queen of Soul."
"She just had that special something in her voice that was like velvet, but it also had all that soul in it," Sampson said.
In 1987, she was the first woman to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2003, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"Everybody could relate to Aretha Franklin because when she'd sing, 'you make me feel like a natural woman,' you believed her," Sampson said. "She had a way of connecting with people that few artists ever possessed."
In 2008, The Queen of Soul returned home to perform by the Mississippi River for Memphis In May.
"We chased after her for--I bet, the 20 years that I've been here; you know the first 10 years--before finally we were able to secure a performance with her," Memphis In May CEO Jim Holt said.
Franklin's Beale Street Music Festival performance happened Sunday, May 4, 2008. Then-Mayor Willie Herenton declared the day Aretha Franklin Day.
"She had a great crowd that night. I think we had Michael McDonald open up for her with the Doobie Brothers, and she just really, really wowed the crowd," Holt said. "She was excited about playing Memphis. She had not played in Memphis--even though she was born here--very frequently, and it was a special night."
Franklin was actually asked to headline the 2018 BSMF, but she declined due to a prior commitment. She ended up canceling that prior commitment due to health reasons.
President Barack Obama invited Franklin to sing at his inauguration in 2009. She performed My Country 'Tis of Thee.
With 18 Grammy awards, Franklin is one of the most celebrated singers and musicians of all time.
"There will always be awesome singers, but there will only be one Aretha Franklin," Mitchell said.
Aretha Franklin was 76 years old.
The Memphis community has began to share their condolences on her passing.
"Aretha Franklin taught to world what R-E-S-P-E-C-T meant and what it was like to feel like a 'natural woman.' From her humble origins -- born at 406 Lucy Street in Memphis -- to her consistent place atop the Billboard charts, Aretha Franklin was truly the 'Queen of Soul.' What a voice and what a passion she brought to her songs. Detroit, Memphis and the whole world has lost a very bright star." -- Congressman Steve Cohen
The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville also shared a statement on her passing:
"The Queen of Soul" was born in Memphis, steeped in the gospel tradition of her father's church, and made an indelible impression on American popular music with songs like "Respect" and "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman." Her powerful voice and skillful songwriting made Aretha Franklin one of the top-selling artists of all time and earned her 18 Grammy awards, along with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, several honorary degrees, an array of lifetime achievement awards and a place in the hearts of all Americans.
Franklin's influence on subsequent generations of musicians is too pervasive to sum up in a few words; but perhaps President Barack Obama described it best when he said that her music "captures the fullness of the American experience, the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence."
Aretha Franklin was a true genius of American music. We hope that her journey is a peaceful one. While we look forward to celebrating her at the National Museum of African American Music, she will be sorely missed.
Copyright 2018 WMC Action News 5. All rights reserved.
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time.
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time. She broke ground as the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of her many hit songs, Respect, has been known as an anthem not just for women, but for all human beings looking to be respected and given their due. Her visibility as a strong Black woman performer in charge of her career and image was important and necessary in a field where white men at recording studios and performance venues called most of the shots. Franklin used her music and her platform not only to showcase her powerhouse singing skills, but to contribute to struggles of civil rights and social justice.
From an early age, Franklin was rooted in the Civil Rights Movement. Franklin’s father was Rev. C.L. Franklin, an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. Known as the man with the “million-dollar voice,” Rev. C.L. Franklin was the lead organizer of the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom. This march was the largest civil-rights demonstration in U.S. history, occurring shortly before the historic March on Washington occurred two months later. In a 2013 interview, Aretha spoke about her admiration of her father and his work, and how he combated resistance to organizing against racism.
“Many pastors whom he invited to our home to discuss it [the 1963 Detroit Walk] were not on board,” Aretha noted. “They didn’t think it was such a good idea… He had his vision, and yes it was under his control. It was his vision of what he wanted to be, and of course it set the stage for the March on Washington,” she explained. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a friend of C.L. Franklin, delivered an early version of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Detroit march.
“It was absolutely a world statement that certainly went out to all nations that we [Black people] could not only organize, but we were healthy and wealthy in numbers that translated commercially into retail and other things,” Franklin stated. In another interview with writer David Ritz in preparation for her biography, she would state, “Daddy had been preaching Black pride for decades and we as a people had rediscovered how beautiful black truly was and were echoing, ‘Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.’”
When discussing one of her greatest hits, Respect, Franklin often spoke about the empowering message for those that heard it. During the 1960s, as her star was gaining momentum with the hit song, Franklin made it a point to put it into her contract that she would not perform before racially segregated audiences. Franklin’s activism went beyond the lyrics of her songs, as she applied her wealth and platform to help fund many social justice campaigns.
Speaking to Detroit Free Press recently, friend and activist Rev. Jesse Jackson explained, “On one occasion, we took an 11-city tour with her and Harry Belafonte…and they put gas in the vans. She did 11 concerts for free and hosted us at her home and did a fundraiser for my campaign. Aretha has always been a very socially conscious artist, an inspiration, not just an entertainer…. She has shared her points of view from the stage for challenged people, to register to vote, to stand up for decency.”
In a 1970 Jet Magazine article, Franklin spoke on how she would be willing to post bail for scholar and activist Angela Davis who, at the time, was being held in prison on charges of murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping. The singer seemingly risked her career and reputation in speaking out in support of Davis, who was publicly known then as a member of the Communist Party USA and called a “dangerous terrorist” by President Richard Nixon.
Franklin is quoted as saying, “…Angela Davis must go free. Black people will be free. I’ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I’m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she’s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people—they’ve made me financially able to have it—and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.”
When speaking on women’s rights in connection to her music, Franklin said in a 2016 ELLE magazine interview, “As women, we do have it. We have the power. We are very resourceful. Women absolutely deserve respect. I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.”
Through trials and tribulations, Aretha Franklin’s career spanned six decades, with numerous chart-topping albums, honors, awards, and iconic performances. Respect has been a rallying cry for marginalized groups, spanning from women to workers on the picket lines demanding fair pay. She was outspoken on the stage and put in the work behind the scenes for progressive movements.
As Franklin’s friend, Rev. Jim Holley of Little Rock Baptist Church expressed to Detroit Free Press, “She used her talent and what God gave her to basically move the race forward. A lot of people do the talking, but they don’t do the walking. She used her talent and her resources. She was that kind of person, a giving person.” Aretha Franklin leaves behind a legacy that has touched the lives of many, and will continue to inspire many more to come. May she rest in power.
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Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title "the Queen of Soul," has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76.
Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin's family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn.
The "official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit," the family statement said.
PHOTOS: REMEMBERING ARETHA FRANKLIN
Tributes and tears flooded in Thursday after news of her death broke.
"Aretha helped define the American experience," former President Barack Obama said in a statement. "In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade -- our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace."
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Legendary soul singer and Franklin's friend of more than sixty years, Sam Moore, had words of sorrow and comfort to offer.
"I adored her and I know the feelings were mutual. While I'm heartbroken that she's gone I know she's in the Lord's arms and she's not in pain or suffering anymore from the damn cancer that took her away from us," he said in a statement. "I'm going to hope, pray and count on the fact that I will see her again sometime. Rest in the Lord's arms in love, Re."
Franklin's fans paid tribute with flowers and a crown left on her Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Los Angeles.
Her death comes three days after a source close to Franklin told CNN's Don Lemon that the singer was in hospice care.
"In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds," Franklin's family said.
"We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time."
Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days, the statement said.
The singer had been reported to be in failing health for years and appeared frail in recent photos, but she kept her struggles private.
In February 2017, Franklin announced she would stop touring, but she continued to book concerts. Earlier this year, she canceled a pair of performances, including at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, on doctor's orders, according to Rolling Stone.
The singer's final public performance was last November, when she sang at an Elton John AIDS Foundation gala in New York.
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Over the course of a professional career that spanned more than half a century, Franklin's songs not only topped the charts but became part of the vernacular.
She made "Respect," written by Otis Redding, a call to arms. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," a Carole King song, was an earthy expression of sexuality. "Think," which she wrote with her then-husband, Ted White, became a rallying cry for women fed up with loutish men.
The first woman admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she had 88 Billboard chart hits during the rock era, tops among female vocalists. At the peak of her career -- from 1967 to 1975 -- she had more than two dozen Top 40 hits.
"Aretha Franklin is not only the definitive female soul singer of the Sixties," according to her Rolling Stone biography, "she's also one of the most influential and important voices in pop history."
She won 18 Grammy awards, including the honor for best female R&B performance for eight straight years.
There was nothing run-of-the-mill about a Franklin performance. "I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)" is slinky and gritty, Franklin's voice sometimes a whisper over Spooner Oldham's electric piano.
"The House That Jack Built" fairly crackles: "I got the house / I got the car / I got the rug / And I got the rack / But I ain't got Jack," Franklin belts.
In Franklin's delivery, "Eleanor Rigby" was a figure of defiance; with Franklin's voice, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" went places not even Art Garfunkel, whose angelic tenor dominated Simon & Garfunkel's original version, could take it.
Her soul was as deep as her voice was strong.
"I think of Aretha as 'Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,'" wrote the late Jerry Wexler, Franklin's producer at Atlantic Records. "Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain. Her depressions could be as deep as the dark sea. I don't pretend to know the sources of her anguish, but anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura."
A recording career at 14
Perhaps more than any other soul star, Franklin's voice embodied the music's debt to gospel.
She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, but was raised mostly in Detroit, where her father, C.L. Franklin, was a prominent minister and a nationally known gospel singer. Franklin sang in the choir of her father's church and, though she declined her dad's offer of piano lessons and taught herself instead, began recording gospel music at age 14.
She toured the gospel circuit with her father, befriending stars such as Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. She later performed at Jackson's funeral.
She was signed to Columbia Records in 1960 by John Hammond, the eagle-eyed talent scout who also discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, but she had only limited success at the label. It wasn't until her arrival at Atlantic Records in the decade's second half that she gave up trying to become a polished all-purpose entertainer for a career as a soul and R&B singer, backed by an earthy rhythm section from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
"The backup musicians provided a much grittier, soulful and R&B-based accompaniment for Aretha's voice," according to the All Music Guide, "which soared with a passion and intensity suggesting a spirit that had been allowed to fly loose for the first time."
Over a year-and-a-half stretch from 1967 to 1968, Franklin racked up 10 Top Ten hits.
"It had looked for the longest time like I would never have a gold record," she told Time magazine in 1968. "I wanted one so bad."
Songs like "Respect" were not only huge sellers, they were also adopted by African-Americans and feminists as anthems for social change.
Civil rights icon and US Rep. John Lewis recalled Franklin's "unwavering" commitment to the movement.
"What made her talent so great was her capacity to live what she sang," Franklin said in a statement Thursday. "Her music was deepened by her connection to the struggles and the triumphs of the African American experience growing up in her father's church, the community of Detroit, and her awareness of the turmoil of the South."
After Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Franklin sang at his funeral.
The hits kept coming throughout the early 1970s, including "Spanish Harlem" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
By the late '70s, Franklin's star power began to wane, as the golden age of soul ended and as critics and fans became less enthusiastic about her continuing output. However, she re-emerged in the 1980s, releasing the 1985 album "Who's Zoomin' Who?", which spawned the hit "Freeway of Love."
She also collaborated with the Eurythmics on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" and British pop star George Michael on the smash duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)." The latter hit No. 1, her last chart-topper.
"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback," she said at the time. "Who's Zoomin' Who" was released, she said, "because I've never been away."
Personal pain lent depth to her music
Franklin's reportedly tumultuous personal life, meanwhile -- she was twice divorced and had brushes with the law -- was shrouded in secrecy.
She was the mother of four sons -- she gave birth to the first at 15 and the second at 17, according to a 1995 Ebony magazine profile. The article depicted her as a warm, down-to-earth woman with a crackling sense of humor, who answered the door in bare feet and confided her diet secret was a combination of Slim-Fast and younger men. She also was reportedly an accomplished cook, telling Ebony, "I can wear some chitlins out."
The Ebony profile suggested the source of some of that pain might have been Franklin's growing up largely without a mother -- Barbara Franklin left the family in 1948, when Franklin was 6, and died four years later -- or the anguish of losing her father.
C.L. Franklin was shot in his home by burglars in 1979 and lived for five years in a semi-coma before dying, the magazine said. Asked the toughest decision she ever had to make, Franklin told Ebony, "It was when my dad was in the hospital," and began to cry.
But Franklin's lows and the emotion involved fueled her music. She saw a number of resurgences in the past three decades and her image as a pop icon endured, with President Barack Obama featuring her singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at his inauguration in 2009. She also performed at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1992.
Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2005. In 1986, her voice was declared a national resource by the Michigan Legislature. She even had an asteroid named for her.
"She looks rested and relaxed, like a housewife headed out to do some shopping at the local K-Mart," Ebony reporter Laura Randolph wrote in the 1995 profile. "There, or at the Woolworth's Five and Dime where, she recalls, she's spent many an afternoon 'browsing and buying knick-knacks' then 'sitting down at the counter to a scrumptious turkey and dressing plate with mashed potatoes oozing with gravy and loving it.' "
Health issues derailed her late career
Franklin battled health issues in recent years, struggling with weight gain and associated ailments.
In August 2010, she canceled two free concerts in New York because of "fractured ribs and pain in the abdomen," spokeswoman Gwendolyn Quinn said, adding that Franklin's doctors had told her to come in for tests immediately.
That November, her doctors ordered her to cancel all personal appearances for the next six months, the Detroit Free Press reported. In early December, Franklin underwent surgery deemed "highly successful."
She also canceled some appearances in 2013.
However, she recovered enough to return to touring in 2014, including a performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall. She'd also lost almost 100 pounds.
"It's fun buying new clothes!" she told USA Today. "I couldn't stay out of the mirror, just turning every way. This is my natural weight."
As for her old wardrobe? The shopper knew exactly what to do with those outfits.
"I'm thinking of giving them to a resale shop," Franklin said.
Her final album, "A Brand New Me," paired Franklin's original recordings of some of her greatest hits with modern musical arrangements from London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The clarity and the command. The daring and the discipline. The thrill of her voice and the truth of her emotions.
Like the best actors and poets, nothing came between how Aretha Franklin felt and what she could express, between what she expressed and how we responded. Blissful on “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman.” Despairing on “Ain’t No Way.” Up front forever on her feminist and civil rights anthem “Respect.”
Franklin, the glorious “Queen of Soul” and genius of American song, died Thursday morning at her home in Detroit of pancreatic cancer. She was 76. Few performers were so universally idolized by peers and critics and so exalted and yet so familiar to their fans. As surely as Jimi Hendrix settled arguments over who was the No. 1 rock guitarist, Franklin ruled unchallenged as the greatest popular vocalist of her time .
She was “Aretha,” a name set in the skies alongside “Jimi” and “Elvis” and “John and Paul.” A professional singer and pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, she recorded hundreds of songs that covered virtually every genre and she had dozens of hits. But her legacy was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 soul smashes in the late 1960s that brought to the radio an overwhelming intensity and unprecedented maturity, from the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to the urgent warning to “Think.”
Acknowledging the obvious, Rolling Stone ranked her first on its list of the top 100 singers. Franklin was also named one of the 20 most important entertainers of the 20th century by Time magazine, which celebrated her “mezzo-soprano, the gospel growls, the throaty howls, the girlish vocal tickles, the swoops, the dives, the blue-sky high notes, the blue-sea low notes. Female vocalists don’t get the credit as innovators that male instrumentalists do. They should. Franklin has mastered her instrument as surely as John Coltrane mastered his sax.”
The music industry couldn’t honor her enough: Franklin won 18 Grammy awards and, in 1987, became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But her status went beyond “artist” or “entertainer” to America’s first singer, as if her very presence at state occasions was a kind of benediction. She performed at the inaugural balls of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and the dedication of Martin Luther King Jr’s memorial. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts and President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ’tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and many others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute for the song’s co-writer, Carole King.
Her voice transcended age, category and her own life. Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. The mother of two boys by age 16 (she later had two more), she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial setbacks. Her strained marriage in the 1960s to then-manager Ted White was widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ?Think” and “Ain’t No Way.” Producer Jerry Wexler nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”
Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Smokey Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.
C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.
“A wonder child,” was how Robinson described her to Franklin biographer David Ritz.
Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and in 1956 she released a gospel album through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.
Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on. The label tried to fit into her a hodgepodge of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird,” and Franklin struggled to develop the gifts for interpretation and improvisation that she later revealed so forcefully.
“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.
“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”
In 1966, her contract ran out and she jumped to Atlantic, home to such rhythm and blues giants as Ray Charles. Wexler highlighted her piano playing and teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The result rocked as hard as the Rolling Stones while returning her to her gospel roots.
Her breakthrough was so profound that Ebony Magazine called 1967 the year of “’Retha, Rap and Revolt.” At a time of protest and division, Franklin’s records were signposts to a distant American dream — a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial gathering of top session musicians.
“In black neighborhoods and white universities, in the clubs and on the charts, her hits came like cannonballs, blowing holes in the stylized bouffant and chiffon Motown sound,” Gerri Hirshey wrote in “Nowhere to Run,” a history of soul music that was published in 1984. “Here was a voice with a sexual payload that made the doo-wop era, the girl groups, and the Motown years seem like a pimply adolescence.”
The difference between Franklin at Columbia and Franklin at Atlantic shows in a pair of songs first performed by Dionne Warwick: “Walk On By” and “I Say a Little Prayer.” On “Walk On By,” recorded at Columbia, the arrangement stays close to the cool pop and girl group chorus of the original. “I Say a Little Prayer,” an Atlantic release, was a gospel workout, from Franklin’s church-influenced piano to the call-and-response vocals. From her years at Atlantic and through the rest of her life, she would rarely stick to anyone else’s blueprint for a song, often revising her own hits when she performed them on stage.
One of her boldest transformation came on her signature record and first No. 1 hit, “Respect,” a horn-led march with a chanting “sock-it-to-me” chorus and the spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965.
“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” Wexler wrote in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”
In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ’60s that she was helping change popular music.
“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”
She was rarely off the charts in 1967 and 1968 and continued to click in the early 1970s with the funky “Rock Steady” and other singles and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” Her popularity faded during the decade, but revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista Records, run by her close friend Clive Davis. Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track, a phrase she came up with herself, and “Freeway of Love.”
If she never quite recaptured the urgency and commercial success of the late ’60s, she never relinquished her status as the singer among singers or lost her willingness to test herself, whether interpreting songs by Lauryn Hill and Sean “Diddy” Combs on her acclaimed “A Rose Is Still a Rose” album or filling in at the 1998 Grammy ceremony for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti. She covered songs by Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke, but also music by Stephen Sondheim, Bread and the Doobie Brothers. At an early recording session at Columbia, she was asked to sing “Over the Rainbow.”
“If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me, it’s good,” she told Time magazine in 1968. “But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is about — just living and having to get along.”
Being “Aretha” didn’t keep her from checking out the competition. Billing herself on social media as “The Undisputed Queen of Soul,” she lashed out at Beyonce for even suggesting that Tina Turner deserved the title and had sharp words for Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight, among others. She even threatened to sue Warwick in 2017.
Her albums over the past two decades included “So Damn Happy,” for which Franklin wrote the gratified title ballad, and “Aretha Sings the Great Diva Classics,” featuring covers of hits by Adele and Alicia Keys among others. Franklin’s autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots,” came out in 1999. But she always made it clear that her story would continue, and that she would sing it.
“Music is my thing, it’s who I am. I’m in it for the long run,” she told The Associated Press in 2008. “I’ll be around, singing, ‘What you want, baby I got it,’ having fun all the way.”
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Who Was Aretha Franklin?
A gifted singer and pianist, Aretha Franklin toured with her father's traveling revival show and later visited New York, where she signed with Columbia Records. Franklin went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics. In 1987 she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2008 she won her 18th Grammy Award, making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.
Early Life and Career
The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C. L." Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer.
Franklin's parents separated by the time she was six, and four years later her mother succumbed to a heart attack. Guided by C. L.'s preaching assignments, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan. C. L. eventually landed at New Bethel Baptist Church, where he gained national renown as a preacher.
Franklin's musical gifts became apparent at an early age. Largely self-taught, she was regarded as a child prodigy. A gifted pianist with a powerful voice, Franklin got her start singing in front of her father's congregation.
By the age of 14, she had recorded some of her earliest tracks at his church, which were released by a small label as the album Songs of Faith in 1956. She also performed with C. L.'s traveling revival show and, while on tour, befriended gospel greats such as Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Clara Ward.
Children
At the age of 12, she became a mother for the first time with a son, Clarence. A second child, Edward, followed two years later — with both sons taking her family's name. Franklin would later have two more sons: Ted White, Jr. and Kecalf Cunningham.
Albums and Songs
'Aretha'
After a brief hiatus, Franklin returned to performing and followed heroes such as Cooke and Dinah Washington into pop and blues territory. In 1960, with her father's blessing, Franklin traveled to New York, where after being courted by several labels, including Motown and RCA, she signed with Columbia Records, who released the album Aretha in 1961.
Though two tracks from Aretha would make the R&B Top 10, a bigger success came that same year with the single "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," which crossed over to No. 37 on the pop charts.
But while Franklin enjoyed moderate results with her recordings over the next few years, they failed to fully showcase her immense talent. In 1966 she and her new husband and manager, Ted White, decided a move was in order, and Franklin signed to Atlantic. Producer Jerry Wexler immediately shuttled Franklin to the Florence Alabama Musical Emporium (FAME) recording studios.
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"
Backed by the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Franklin recorded the single "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)." In the midst of the recording sessions, White quarreled with a member of the band, and White and Franklin left abruptly.
But as the single became a massive Top 10 hit, Franklin re-emerged in New York and was able to complete the partially recorded track, "Do Right Woman—Do Right Man."
'Respect'
Hitting her stride in 1967 and 1968, Franklin churned out a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics, showcasing Franklin's powerful voice and gospel roots in a pop framework.
In 1967, the album I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) was released, and the first song on the album, "Respect" — an empowered cover of an Otis Redding track — reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts and won Franklin her first two Grammy Awards.
She also had Top 10 hits with "Baby I Love You,'' "Think," "Chain of Fools,'' "I Say a Little Prayer," "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
Dubbed the 'Queen of Soul'
Franklin's chart dominance soon earned her the title Queen of Soul, while at the same time she also became a symbol of Black empowerment during the civil rights movement.
In 1968 Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during which she paid tribute to her father's fallen friend with a heartfelt rendition of "Precious Lord." Later that year, she was also selected to sing the national anthem to begin the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Amidst this newfound success, Franklin experienced upheaval in her personal life, and she and White divorced in 1969. But this did not slow Franklin's steady rise, and the new decade brought more hit singles, including "Don't Play That Song," "Spanish Harlem" and her cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
'Amazing Grace'
Spurred by Mahalia Jackson's passing and a subsequent resurgence of interest in gospel music, Franklin returned to her musical origins for the 1972 album Amazing Grace, which sold more than 2 million copies and went on to become the best-selling gospel album at the time.
Franklin's success continued throughout the 1970s, as she branched out to work with producers such as Curtis Mayfield and Quincy Jones and expanded her repertoire to include rock and pop covers. Along the way, she took home eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance, the last coming for her 1974 single "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."
Career Struggles
But by 1975, Franklin's sound was fading into the background with the onset of the disco craze, and an emerging set of young Black singers, such as Chaka Khan and Donna Summer, began to eclipse Franklin's career.
She did, however, find a brief respite from slumping sales with the 1976 soundtrack to the Warner Brothers film Sparkle — which topped the R&B charts and made the Top 20 in pop — as well as an invitation to perform at the 1977 presidential inauguration of Jimmy Carter. In 1978 she also married actor Glynn Turman.
A string of chart failures ended Franklin's relationship with Atlantic in 1979. The same year, her father was hospitalized after a burglary attempt in his home left him in a coma. As her popularity waned and her father's health declined, Franklin was also saddled with a massive bill from the IRS.
However, a cameo in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers helped Franklin revive her flagging career. Performing "Think'' alongside comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd exposed her to a new generation of R&B lovers, and she soon signed to Arista Records.
Her new label released 1982's Jump To It, an album that enjoyed huge success on the R&B charts and earned Franklin a Grammy nomination. Two years later, she endured a divorce from Turman as well as the death of her father.
More Albums and Songs: 1980s and On
'Who's Zoomin' Who?'
In 1985 Franklin returned to the top of the charts with a smash-hit album: the polished pop record Who's Zoomin' Who? Featuring the single "Freeway of Love," as well as a collaboration with the popular rock band The Eurythmics, the record became Franklin's biggest-selling album yet.
'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'
Her follow-up, 1986's Aretha, also charted well and eventually went gold, and her duet with British singer George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),'' hit No. 1 on the pop charts.
In 1987 Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Detroit. That same year, she released the album One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which won the Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance.
Following another relatively quiet period in her career, in 1993, Franklin was invited to sing at the inauguration of Bill Clinton, and the following year she received both a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors. She would also be the focus of multiple documentaries and tributes as the decade progressed.
'A Rose Is Still a Rose'
Nearing its conclusion, Franklin reprised her former role in Blues Brothers 2000, released the gold-selling "A Rose Is Still a Rose" and stood in for Luciano Pavarotti, who was too ill to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, with her rendition of "Nessun Dorma" commanding stellar reviews.
'So Damn Happy'
In 2003 Franklin released her final studio album on Arista, So Damn Happy, and left the label to found Aretha Records. Two years later, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and became the second woman ever to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
In 2008 she received her 18th Grammy Award for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" — a collaboration with Mary J. Blige — and was tapped to sing at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
With 18 Grammys under her belt, Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy history, ranked among the likes of Alison Krauss, Adele and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2011 Franklin released her first album on her own label, A Woman Falling Out of Love.
To support the project, she performed several concerts, including a two-night stint at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York. With fans and critics alike impressed with her performances, she successfully proved that the Queen of Soul still reigned supreme.
'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics'
In 2014 Franklin underscored that point with Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, which reached No. 13 on the pop charts and No. 3 R&B.
In February 2017, the 74-year-old Queen of Soul told Detroit radio station WDIV Local 4 that she was collaborating with Stevie Wonder to release a new album.
“I must tell you, I am retiring this year," she said in the interview, adding: "I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now. I’ll be pretty much satisfied, but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either.”
Death
On August 12, 2018, it was reported that a "gravely ill" Franklin was bedridden in her Detroit home, surrounded by family and friends. As news of her condition spread, more luminaries paid a visit to express their well wishes, including Wonder and Jesse Jackson.
Four days later, on the morning of August 16, Franklin succumbed to her illness, which her family revealed to be pancreatic cancer.
A public viewing was held later that month at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, with fans camping out overnight for the chance to pay their respects to the iconic singer. Her televised funeral was set to be held at the city's Greater Grace Temple on August 31, with Wonder, Khan and Hudson among the scheduled performers, and Jackson, Clinton and Smokey Robinson highlighting the list of speakers.
Movie
In January 2018, it was announced that Franklin hand-picked singer and actress Jennifer Hudson to play her in an upcoming biopic. After being pushed back several times, Respect will be released on August 13, 2021.
QUICK FACTS
Birth Year: 1942
Birth date: March 25, 1942
Birth State: Tennessee
Birth City: Memphis
Birth Country: United States
Gender: Female
Best Known For: Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."
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Music
Astrological Sign: Aries
Interesting Facts
Aretha Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Aretha Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy Award history, winning her 18th honor in 2008.
Death Year: 2018
Death date: August 16, 2018
Death State: Michigan
Death City: Detroit
Death Country: United States
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Article Title: Aretha Franklin Biography
Author: Biography.com Editors
Website Name: The Biography.com website
Url: https://www.biography.com/musicians/aretha-franklin
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Publisher: A&E; Television Networks
Last Updated: September 15, 2021
Original Published Date: April 3, 2014
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time.
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time. She broke ground as the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of her many hit songs, Respect, has been known as an anthem not just for women, but for all human beings looking to be respected and given their due. Her visibility as a strong Black woman performer in charge of her career and image was important and necessary in a field where white men at recording studios and performance venues called most of the shots. Franklin used her music and her platform not only to showcase her powerhouse singing skills, but to contribute to struggles of civil rights and social justice.
From an early age, Franklin was rooted in the Civil Rights Movement. Franklin’s father was Rev. C.L. Franklin, an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. Known as the man with the “million-dollar voice,” Rev. C.L. Franklin was the lead organizer of the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom. This march was the largest civil-rights demonstration in U.S. history, occurring shortly before the historic March on Washington occurred two months later. In a 2013 interview, Aretha spoke about her admiration of her father and his work, and how he combated resistance to organizing against racism.
“Many pastors whom he invited to our home to discuss it [the 1963 Detroit Walk] were not on board,” Aretha noted. “They didn’t think it was such a good idea… He had his vision, and yes it was under his control. It was his vision of what he wanted to be, and of course it set the stage for the March on Washington,” she explained. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a friend of C.L. Franklin, delivered an early version of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Detroit march.
“It was absolutely a world statement that certainly went out to all nations that we [Black people] could not only organize, but we were healthy and wealthy in numbers that translated commercially into retail and other things,” Franklin stated. In another interview with writer David Ritz in preparation for her biography, she would state, “Daddy had been preaching Black pride for decades and we as a people had rediscovered how beautiful black truly was and were echoing, ‘Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.’”
When discussing one of her greatest hits, Respect, Franklin often spoke about the empowering message for those that heard it. During the 1960s, as her star was gaining momentum with the hit song, Franklin made it a point to put it into her contract that she would not perform before racially segregated audiences. Franklin’s activism went beyond the lyrics of her songs, as she applied her wealth and platform to help fund many social justice campaigns.
Speaking to Detroit Free Press recently, friend and activist Rev. Jesse Jackson explained, “On one occasion, we took an 11-city tour with her and Harry Belafonte…and they put gas in the vans. She did 11 concerts for free and hosted us at her home and did a fundraiser for my campaign. Aretha has always been a very socially conscious artist, an inspiration, not just an entertainer…. She has shared her points of view from the stage for challenged people, to register to vote, to stand up for decency.”
In a 1970 Jet Magazine article, Franklin spoke on how she would be willing to post bail for scholar and activist Angela Davis who, at the time, was being held in prison on charges of murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping. The singer seemingly risked her career and reputation in speaking out in support of Davis, who was publicly known then as a member of the Communist Party USA and called a “dangerous terrorist” by President Richard Nixon.
Franklin is quoted as saying, “…Angela Davis must go free. Black people will be free. I’ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I’m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she’s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people—they’ve made me financially able to have it—and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.”
When speaking on women’s rights in connection to her music, Franklin said in a 2016 ELLE magazine interview, “As women, we do have it. We have the power. We are very resourceful. Women absolutely deserve respect. I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.”
Through trials and tribulations, Aretha Franklin’s career spanned six decades, with numerous chart-topping albums, honors, awards, and iconic performances. Respect has been a rallying cry for marginalized groups, spanning from women to workers on the picket lines demanding fair pay. She was outspoken on the stage and put in the work behind the scenes for progressive movements.
As Franklin’s friend, Rev. Jim Holley of Little Rock Baptist Church expressed to Detroit Free Press, “She used her talent and what God gave her to basically move the race forward. A lot of people do the talking, but they don’t do the walking. She used her talent and her resources. She was that kind of person, a giving person.” Aretha Franklin leaves behind a legacy that has touched the lives of many, and will continue to inspire many more to come. May she rest in power.
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The now-owner of Aretha Franklin's childhood home is set to appear back in environmental court.
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MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - The now-owner of Aretha Franklin's childhood home is set to appear back in environmental court.
There's a GoFundMe account to help turn the home into an international attraction.
But before it can be made into a museum, taxes need to be paid.
The home on Lucy Street is filled with decades worth of memories dating back to 1942 when the Queen of Soul was born in the front bedroom.
Now, this home belongs to the House family.
Vera Lee House, the mother who raised 12 children in the home will ask a judge Tuesday for a little more time to allow her to pay off the taxes.
"We have a lot of good memories growing up here," said daughter Mildred House.
From an early age, all 12 of Vera Lee's children knew their home was special--the birthplace of Aretha Franklin.
"This is where she was born," daughter Nicole Waters said. "This is where she stepped off. This is her porch."
Franklin shared those memories with the House family during her 1995 visit to the home.
"She talked about her mom and dad in the kitchen cooking also, where we had the same memories with our mom and dad in the kitchen cooking," Mildred said.
But the home later fell on hard times. By 2012, the dilapidated house was declared a public nuisance.
"My mom, she just did everything that she could to try and keep it standing," Mildred said.
In 2016, Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter saved it from the wrecking ball.
Now, the House family is asking for help again from Environmental Court, asking for more time to pay $1,200 in back taxes on the home.
"Anybody who can come in and help keep it standing at 406 Lucy we would like the help from them," Mildred said.
By preserving this historic home, they hope to one day turn it into a museum.
"She's the Queen of Soul," Nicole said. "She deserves this."
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The eternal challenge is to answer grief with something that resembles love. To choose not just to sit around decrying hardship and injustice but instead to uncurl your fists and approach sorrow with grace, power, and, most incredibly, gratitude—not for the hurt itself but for the whole miraculous mess of being alive, this strange endowment of breath and blood. Most days, I believe that Aretha Franklin did this work better than anyone. And she did it while being tough and self-assured, confident in both her capacity and her worth, thus obliterating the terrible, pervasive presumption that a woman can’t be tender and oh-my-goodness mighty at the same time.
Franklin, who died Thursday, at seventy-six—a family statement cited pancreatic cancer as the cause—was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. She had four children. Her father, C. L. Franklin, was a Mississippi-born Baptist minister of deep and wide renown, and her mother, Barbara, sang and played piano in the church. When Aretha was still a child, her father gave up itinerant preaching to settle at the New Bethel Baptist Church, in Detroit, Michigan. (Not long after, Barbara and C. L. separated; Barbara died in Buffalo, New York, in 1952, when she was thirty-four and Aretha was just ten.) At first, C. L.’s congregation had four hundred members and met in a bowling alley. In 1963, the church was thriving and moved into the once-crumbling Oriole Theatre, which C. L. arranged to have renovated by black workers and artisans, a transition he described, in the Detroit Free Press, as “a trip from the valley to the mountain”; two thousand parishioners gathered to celebrate. C. L.’s friends and acolytes included Martin Luther King, Jr., and the gospel singers Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward. You can imagine the sort of child that crowd might nurture. The music of the black church—where Aretha was born and inculcated, where her voice both originated and returned—was the most trenchant force in her life.
Aretha signed to Columbia Records in 1960. Sam Cooke had tried to get her to join him at RCA; Berry Gordy, too, had circled, attempting to lure both Aretha and her older sister, Erma, to Tamla, the soul label that he ran before Motown. But C. L. wanted Aretha somewhere legitimate and established. Columbia heard a pop star. Gospel remained present in her songs—you can’t really sublimate that sort of thing—but she grew colossally famous as a rhythm-and-blues singer. “Respect” was first written and recorded by Otis Redding, in 1965, but it nonetheless remains Aretha’s signature song, her calling card. For a black woman to sing the phrase “Ooh, your kisses, sweeter than honey / But guess what? So is my money,” in 1967, with effortless certainty, remains so plainly wonderful to me that I think about it at least once a week. (When Beyoncé delivers the line “Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper,” at the end of “Formation,” it feels like an earnest and explicit homage.)
Aretha, of course, became hugely successful—more than seventy-five million records sold. She always asked to be paid up front, in cash, and stowed the rolls in her pocketbook. She knew precisely how to wear a mink, and, more important, how to let a mink fall to the floor. (Long before the now-ubiquitous “mike drop” there were the grand dames of the prewar blues era, casually shrugging off their coats in an undeniable expression of authority and dominance—let it tumble.) She was not the sort of woman who tolerated clowns or clownishness. Who could not love this about her?
There is a sublime clip of her performing an athletic medley—“Respect,” “Today I Sing the Blues,” and “Spirit of the Lord”—live on B.E.T., sometime in the aughts. She’s wearing a generously sequined gown and diamond drop earrings, and her hair is curled into sweet tendrils. Toward the end of “Today I Sing the Blues,” you can see her working up to something. (I’d recommend that you start watching the video around four minutes and fifteen seconds in.) She loved someone and he left her alone, again, and she’s overcome by a heavy and disbelieving anguish: “I come out on the losin’ end in every, every love affair,” she sings. It just doesn’t make any sense. “Yesterday this time, I sang a love song.” How do we go from having love to being so cruelly and suddenly divested of it? How can we do that to one another? Aretha does a little bounce and pumps her shoulders. It’s so much to consider. Then she reaches up, takes hold of her wig, and flings it off. It’s a triumphant and hilarious bit of theatre, yet it’s the truest thing anybody could have done in that moment.
Her life was full of these sorts of flourishes: wild and dramatic liberations, all in service of song. In 1970, while working on “Spirit in the Dark,” she recorded a cover of the crooner staple “My Way.” I appreciate the now-canonical Sinatra version as much as any hot-blooded, martini-swirling New Yorker (the song’s lyrics were written by Paul Anka, in 1967), but Aretha’s take is something else. It wasn’t released commercially until 2007, in the odd-and-sods compilation “Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul.” “Let me make it real clear,” she sings in the first verse, unnecessarily. She decides to go lower on the chorus, so the “my way” becomes a kind of upward swoop, as if she’s gearing up for a great leap.
But I simply can’t get away from her astonishing performance of “Amazing Grace” from 1972. She recorded it live, for an album of the same name, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Los Angeles; the album eventually went on to become the highest-selling gospel release of all time. (Sydney Pollack filmed the performance, but, for a variety of complicated reasons, many expounded on in Aaron Cohen’s wonderful book on the album, the documentary was never released.) When Aretha sings “Amazing Grace” in that church, it’s suddenly not a song anymore, or not really—the melody, the lyrics, they’re rendered mostly meaningless. A few bits of organ, some piano. Who cares? Congregants yelling “Sing it!” None of it matters. I’m not being melodramatic—we are listening to the wildest embodiment of a divine signal. She receives it and she broadcasts it. “Singing” can’t possibly be the right word for this sort of channelling.
To listen to Aretha Franklin now is to hear everything—everything that came before her, each strain of American blues and jazz and gospel and soul, all the musical traditions people leaned on to stay alive, and everything that exists now, all the singers she gave license to, everyone she taught. Her death is in all of us, as her songs are in all of us. She is as immortal as can be.
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Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Barbara (née) Siggers and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Her father, who went by the nickname, “C. L.”, was an itinerant preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Alongside Franklin, her parents had three other children while both C. L. and Barbara had children from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York when Franklin was two. Prior to her fifth birthday, C. L. Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he founded the Baptist church, New Bethel. Franklin’s parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of C. L. Franklin’s philandering and in 1948, they separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship.
Contrary to popular notion, Franklin’s mother did not abandon her children and Franklin would recall seeing her mother in Buffalo during summertime while Barbara also frequently visited her children in Detroit. Franklin’s mother died on March 7, 1952, prior to Franklin’s tenth birthday. Several women, including Franklin’s grandmother Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Franklin learned how to play piano by ear. Franklin’s father’s emotionally driven sermons resulted in him being known as the man with the “million-dollar voice” and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. Franklin’s celebrity led to his home being visited by various celebrities including gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews as well as Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke.
Music Career Beginnings
Just after her mother’s death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, “Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me”. Four years later, when Franklin was 14, her father began managing her, bringing her on the road with him during his so-called “gospel caravan” tours for her to perform in various churches. He helped his daughter get signed to her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was issued in 1956. Two singles were released to gospel radio stations including “Never Grow Old” and “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”. Franklin sometimes traveled with The Caravans and The Soul Stirrers during this time and developed a crush on Sam Cooke, who was then singing with the Soul Stirrers prior to his secular career.
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke to record pop music. Serving as her manager, C. L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960. Franklin was signed as a “five-percent artist”.During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin’s father to have his label, RCA sign Franklin. He had also been persuaded by local record label owner Berry Gordy to sign Franklin and her elder sister Erma to his Tamla label. Franklin’s father felt the label was not established enough yet. Franklin’s first Columbia single, “Today I Sing the Blues”, was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top ten of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.
Franklin moved back to Detroit from New York City into this suburban colonial (built in ’49) in the early ’60s, her toddlers and hustler-hubby-manager Ted White in tow. She was still signed to Columbia Records doing pop and jazz standards. The family lived here for a number of years in the ’60s, until Aretha hit it huge on Atlantic, and neighbors complained of the noise from all-night parties and parked cars clogging sides of the street.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", and "Spanish Harlem".
By the end of the 1960s she was being called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Young, Gifted and Black (1972) and Amazing Grace (1972), before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, she left Atlantic and signed with Arista Records, finding success with the albums Jump to It (1982) and Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), and her part in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In 1998, Franklin received international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards that year, replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that year, she scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a Rose".
Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin's other well-known hits include "Rock Steady", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael), and a remake of The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, from 1968 through to 1975, and is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.[1]
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To the rest of the world, she was the “Queen of Soul” — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel. To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply “Aretha” or more personally “Ree-Ree” […]
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To the rest of the world, she was the “Queen of Soul” — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.
To residents in her hometown of Detroit who followed her more than 50-year career, she was simply “Aretha” or more personally “Ree-Ree” — the city’s favorite daughter, often singing at the Baptist church her father once led or headlining charity functions for kids or the less fortunate.
“She was a pioneer woman for Detroit,” said Myron Pullin, fighting back tears Thursday morning outside New Bethel Baptist Church after learning of Franklin’s death from pancreatic cancer.
“It really hurt my heart. I wanted to cry,” Pullin, 56, added beneath somber, gray and swollen clouds. “Her music touches you, but her voice. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, they’re beautiful singers, but to me, Aretha just stood out differently from all of them.”
Franklin, who died at her home in Detroit, had moved to the city from Tennessee as a young child.
“She was just special and she always came home and she always gave back,” Pullin said. “She really, really always loved Detroit.”
The feeling was mutual. Franklin is so beloved in Detroit that not one, but two streets bear her name.
“Few people in the history of our city have been as universally loved or left as indelible a mark as Aretha,” Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement. “From the time her father gave Aretha her start in the New Bethel choir, it was clear to everyone how special she was. She was a performer without peers. Throughout her extraordinary life and career, she earned the love — and yes, the respect — of millions of people, not just for herself and for women everywhere, but for the city she loved so dearly and called home.”
In 2010, she and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed a duet at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center to raise money for urban children and awareness for music and the arts. “It is a joint effort for the inner-city youth of Philadelphia and Detroit,” Franklin said at the time.
She also worked with the United Negro College Fund and in 2005 held a party in the Detroit area for dozens of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
“Detroiters realize how deeply I appreciate the city in which I was raised,” Franklin wrote in her 1999 autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”
She continued, “And it is in Detroit that I continue to cultivate my career; it is to Detroit that I direct most of my charitable activities; and it is from Detroit that I receive much love and support, which I reciprocate.”
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the lone surviving original member of the Four Tops, told the AP earlier in the week about a recent conversation they had about the city.
“She was telling me she rides around the city every now and then — she talks about how beautiful it is again,” Fakir said.
Lisa McCall, whose quarter-century career working with Franklin started at age 12 as a dancer and continued for many years as her main choreographer, said Franklin was loyal to her “camp,” many of whom were from Detroit. They had a two-hour conversation when McCall was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, and another heart-to-heart came more recently.
“She heard I was ill and she called me — she gave me hope and inspired me,” McCall said Thursday, adding that she still has the card that came with a bouquet of flowers Franklin had sent. “Then, last year in the dressing room she said, ‘Lisa, you’ve been through this — I hope I come out on top like you.’ … I knew what she meant.”
McCall said Franklin was an inspiration both personally and professionally. The singer trusted the choreographer to assemble the team of dancers and make sure they were ready to perform at venues across the country.
“I think that’s why I always hire Detroit artists — because of Aretha. She kept Detroit artists working,” McCall said. “She always gave opportunities to Detroiters … because she said we have great talent.
“She’s Detroit’s queen — she’s our queen,” McCall added. “She belongs to us.”
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Aretha Franklin bio, age, death, career, net worth, family & more-Former American singer and pianist, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942.
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States of America to Barbara Sigers and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. She shares the same parents with her five siblings; Erma, Carolyn, Carl Ellan, Rev. Cecil and Vaughn Franklin.
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She went to public school in Detroit as well, spending her first year at Northern High School before quitting her sophomore year.
Before Aretha was ten, on March 7, 1952, her mother passed away from a heart attack. At the Franklin home, a number of people, including Mahalia Jackson and Arethaâs grandmother Rachel, took turns looking after the kids. Aretha developed her ear for the piano at this time.
Aretha Franklin nationality
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States of America. She was an American.
Aretha Franklin death
On August 16, 2018, Franklin reportedly died at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit after she was reported to be gravely ill on August 13, 2018. She died at the age of 76.
On August 19, a memorial service was held at New Bethel Baptist Church. The public lying-in-repose service was held at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where thousands of people paid their respects.
Aretha Franklin age
Franklin was born on March 25, 192 and she died on August 16, 2018, hence she was 76 years of age at the time of her death.
Aretha Franklin net worth
Franklin had a net worth estimated to be about $80 million.
Aretha Franklin height and weight
Franklin stood at a height of 5 ft. 5 inches and weighed 79kg.
Aretha Franklin education
Franklin attended the Northern High School.
Aretha Franklin career
Franklinâs gospel singing garnered attention while she was a little kid at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, served as a preacher.
She joined Columbia Records as a recording artist when she was 18 years old. Franklinâs career did not take off right away, but after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966, she began to get praise and experience financial success.
Franklin rose above her musical contemporaries thanks to the success of songs like âI Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),â âRespect,â â(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,â âChain of Fools,â âThink,â and âI Say a Little Prayer.â
Before running into issues with the record label, Franklin continued to release critically praised albums like I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit in the Dark (1970), Young, Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976).
In 1979, Franklin parted ways with Atlantic and joined Arista Records. Before recording the popular albums Jump to It (1982), Whoâs Zoominâ Who? (1985), and Aretha (1986) on the Arista label, the singer made an appearance in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers.
With the Lauryn Hill-produced song âA Rose Is Still a Roseâ in 1998, Franklin made a comeback to the Top 40. She then issued an album of the same name.
Franklin has 112 singles that reached the US Billboard charts, including 73 Hot 100 entries, 17 top ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries, and 20 R&B hits that reached number one.
Besides the songs mentioned above, the singerâs other well-known hits include âAinât No Way,â âCall Me,â âDonât Play That Song (You Liedâ),â âSpanish Harlem,â âRock Steady,â âDay Dreaming,â âUntil You Come Back to Me (Thatâs What Iâm Gonna Doâ),â âSomething He Can Feel,â âJump to It,â âFreeway of Love,â âWhoâs Zoominâ Who,â and â
Franklin received 44 nominations, however, she only received 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (1968â75), the Grammy Awards Living Legend title, and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Franklin won a lot of awards during the course of her career. She received both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.
She was the first female musician to be admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Additionally, she was admitted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
The songwriter received a posthumous special commendation from the Pulitzer Prize jury in 2019 âfor her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decadesâ. Franklin received her induction into the National Womenâs Hall of Fame in 2020.
Aretha Franklin family and siblings
Franklin was born to Barbara Sigers and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. She shares the same parents with her five siblings; Erma, Carolyn, Carl Ellan, Rev. Cecil and Vaughn Franklin.
Aretha Franklin husband
Franklin was married twice in her life but was reportedly single at the time of her death.
Aretha Franklin children
Franklin had four sons; Kecalf Cunningham, Clarence Franklin, Edward Franklin and Teddy Richards.
Aretha Franklin religion
Franklin was a Christian.
Aretha Franklin social media
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Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, has died at the age of 76.
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Aretha Franklin's career soundtracked the greatest moments of change in the postwar United States and, more than once, captivated a nation divided by its prejudices. Demanding attention, understanding, and r-e-s-p-e-c-t, her songs became anthems for the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, and she an idol for African-American women. She gave a voice—and what a voice it was—to their blues and dared them to take pride in their shared identity. Her career, which opened record label doors and radio airwaves for all the many young black singers who've been bold enough to create in her wake, will never be matched in influence.
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and the greatest singer who ever lived, died on Thursday in her Detroit home of pancreatic cancer. The icon, a powerhouse vocalist and a master of soul, jazz, R&B, and pop, was 76 years old. Her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn has confirmed the news to the Associated Press.
“It is with deep and profound sadness that we announce the passing of Aretha Louise Franklin, the Queen of Soul,” Quinn said in a statement. “Franklin … passed away on Thursday morning, August 16 at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, MI, surrounded by family and loved ones. In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds. We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
Born March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, Franklin was the fourth of Reverend Clarence LaVaughan Franklin and Barbara Franklin’s five children. The couple—he the most famous African-American preacher of his generation, she a gospel singer—separated before Franklin turned six, and Barbara died just shy of Franklin's tenth birthday, claimed by a fatal heart attack. The family relocated several times early in Franklin’s life, eventually settling in Detroit, Michigan, where Clarence, aka “C.L.,” assumed a posting at New Bethel Baptist Church. His congregation became the first audience for his prodigious daughter.
Franklin recorded her first songs during her early teens at New Bethel; Songs of Faith was released via a local label in 1956. The set did little to launch her career, but the time the young woman was spending on the road with C.L.’s traveling revival show—the C.L. Franklin Gospel Caravan—proved formative: She became friendly with gospel giants like Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, and Clara Ward; the latter two each helped care for Franklin and her siblings in the wake of her mother’s absence.
The rotating cast of performers informed her musical identity, but it was C.L. who taught her to perform. “His delivery was very dynamic,” she told Rolling Stone in 2014. “If he had chosen to be a singer, he would have been a great one.” At the age of 14, while recording that first batch of gospel tunes, which included “There Is A Fountain Filled with Blood” and “While the Blood Runs Warm,” Franklin was pregnant with her second child, Edward. (Clarence, fathered by a classmate and named for Franklin's father, was born when Franklin was 12.) She left school and embraced the road full-time, a lifestyle she maintained more or less until her death.
Detroit remained home-base for the Franklin family, but in 1960, at the age of 18 and having recently signed with Colombia Records, she decamped to New York City. Marketed as a lounge singer and paired with pop producers, her records from the next handful of years, which include The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962), Runnin’ Out of Fools (1964), and Yeah!!! (1965), sold poorly. Years later, her producer at the time John Hammond, who also worked with Billie Holiday, would admit , “I cherish the albums we made together, but Colombia was a white company who misunderstood her genius.”
Signing with Atlantic Records in 1966 changed all of that. Jerry Wexler, Atlantic’s renowned producer and one of the great record men of this century, took over as her producer—and the music transformed. Back on the piano and supported by the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, Franklin began topping the charts with cuts like 1967’s “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)” and “Respect,” Franklin's greatest recording ever, originally penned by Otis Redding. The Queen of Soul was born, and along with it, a new paradigm of pop star.
The next five years were the most productive of her career—and one of the most important half-decades for American music, ever. No artist deserves more credit for the secularization of gospel music than Franklin, and no artist encapsulated the black female experience as fully or powerfully. Along with "Loved" and "Respect," I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You—her Atlantic debut and arguably the greatest soul album of all time—also included seminal cuts “Dr. Feelgood,” “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” and “A Change Is Gonna Come,” a cover of Sam Cooke’s unforgettable anthem. The full range of her mezzo-soprano was realized, her convictions unleashed.
“Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” which released a year later on Lady Soul, and “Think,” also released in 1968 but via Aretha Now, all became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Liberation Movement following release. The premier representative of the black community in entertainment, she performed “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” at a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. following his death.
The mainstream had also fully embraced her during this time: “Respect” earned her her first two—of ultimately 18—Grammys. She took home statues that year for Best Rhythm & Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female and Best Rhythm & Blues Recording. Franklin is tied with Whitney Houston, a powerhouse vocalist whose career was inspired by Franklin, for the second-most Grammy performances by a female artist. They each took the ceremony’s stage eight times during their careers.
Forgotten to some, perhaps, the Queen of Soul is not just a nickname. Franklin was, literally, awarded a crown for assuming the throne in 1968 in Chicago. Deejay Pervis Spann did the honors during Franklin’s performance at Chicago’s Regal Theater. She has held the title for 50 years, inspiring artists like Chaka Khan, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and countless others.
Aretha Franklin performs in New York at a Martin Luther King Jr. benefit concert on June 28, 1968.
The '70s was a decade of creative highs that tumbled into years of personal lows for the icon. Studio albums Spirit in the Dark (1970) and Young, Gifted and Black (1972) each landed thunderously as they explored themes of empowerment and self-actualization. And her live album Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971) captured the vitality of her performances while introducing her catalog to the white counterculture community.
Out of Dark’s 12 songs, five were written by Franklin—the most on any album in her catalog. They chronicled, with a knowing that still shocks, the perils of divorce and new love found. (Franklin separated from her first husband, Theodore “Ted” White in 1969; she remarried, to actor Glynn Turman in 1978. She and Turman would divorce in 1984.)
And the ripples of Black, named for the Nina Simone cover recorded for the collection, continue to fan out in the pop-music discourse of 2018. The LP released into an America vibrating with tension—the Vietnam war, nearing its end, had incited rage while the assassinations of King, Malcolm X, and both John and Robert Kennedy still had many reeling, searching for closure or steady ground. The Black Power Movement was nearing its crescendo. That energy, the way it would fragment, combust, explode, woo, and even, on occasion, dissipate, is on glorious display all across Black. To listen to it is to listen to a defining moment in American history.
After a little more than a decade together, Franklin ended her partnership with Atlantic Records in 1979, penning a new contract with the Clive Davis-founded Arista Records—the same year that her father was shot during a robbery of his home in Detroit. He would remain in a coma until his death, five years later at the age of 69. The '80s also saw Franklin lose her brother Cecil and sister Carolyn; he to lung cancer, she to breast cancer. Her older sister, Erma, whose backing vocals line many of Franklin’s most famous recordings, would die in 2002 from throat cancer.
Fame had also taken its toll at this time. It was rumored that Franklin suffered a nervous breakdown while on stage in 1973; in 1982, after a particularly bumpy flight, she developed a fear of flying that would keep her land-bound for the rest of her career, effectively barring her from performing abroad. As The New Yorker notes, Wexler wrote of Franklin in his memoir as troubled: “I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows. Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain. Her depressions could be as deep as the dark sea. I don’t pretend to know the sources of her anguish, but anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura.”
Aretha Franklin (l) and Clive Davis (r)
In 1987, the same year she scored her second No. 1 pop hit (“I Knew You Were Waiting for Me,” a duet with George Michael), Franklin became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Until the time of her death, the accolades continued to stack up. In 1991, she received the Recording Academy’s Grammy Legend Award and in 1994; she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the same voting body, two-plus decades before her career would wrap. In 2005, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in 2008, she was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year. She’s collected honorary doctorates from Harvard and Yale, and has been inducted into the NAACP and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
Franklin charted 43 Top 40 Hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold tens of millions of records during her career. When “The Only Thing Missin’” and “Wonderful,” each off of So Damn Happy, took off in 2003, she had officially logged hits in five consecutive decades. She sang at the inaugurations of two U.S. presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
She brought the latter to tears during her performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. Carole King, who wrote the song with her first husband, was completely overcome. In her seventies and cloaked in one of her trademark floor-length furs, her instrument may have lost a shred of its shine by then, but none of its power. In fact, the performance is a remarkable display of everything that made Franklin so peer-less: how she was able to cross so many notes while carrying just one word in her mouth, the way she circled a beat with her vocal, and her profound, proud female energy.
Speaking to The New Yorker months later, Franklin admitted that the evening was “one of the three or four greatest nights of my life.”
That same interview included an emailed quote from Barack Obama, recalling her performance: “Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That’s why, when she sits down at a piano and sings ‘A Natural Woman,’ she can move me to tears—the same way that Ray Charles’s version of ‘America the Beautiful’ will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed—because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.”
"American history wells up when Aretha sings." — Barack Obama
In 2010, it was reported that Franklin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She canceled several shows during that time but never confirmed the diagnosis. (During her career she also struggled with alcoholism and obesity.) As she appeared at the next year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, she’d grown noticeably thinner, but by 2013, things appeared to have stabilized. During a concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, she recalled turning to prayer while her doctors’ concerns grew grave: “[I told them,] you burn the midnight oil, you read books, but you really don’t know that much about me,” she said, according to Rolling Stone. “You see, I come from a praying family…’ A couple of years later I went back to the hospital, and those same doctors are saying, ‘Miss Franklin, the thing we saw before, we don’t see no more.’ Hallelujah!”
The respite was short-lived, however. While Franklin released three LPs this decade—two since the time of that concert: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics (2014), A Brand New Me (2017)—the legendary artist was forced to retire from live performances last year. “I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now,” she told Detroit’s WDIV Local 4, announcing her drastically-scaled-back performance plans. “I’ll be pretty much satisfied, but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either.” Franklin logged her final performance last fall at Elton John's annual AIDS foundation gala in New York City.
Her life has been dissected and portrayed in the popular media numerous times over the years. She commissioned an autobiography with writer David Ritz in that published in 1999 to minimal fanfare. (Ritz attributed the failure of Aretha: From These Roots to a lack of cooperation from Franklin regarding the more painful details of her life.) And 15 years later, he published an unauthorized biography, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. The work, shocking in its retelling of a life full of scandal, abuse, and loss, was denounced by Franklin, but as The New Yorker pointed out following its release, none of the sources ever backpedaled on their comments. Earlier this year it was announced that Franklin had tapped Jennifer Hudson to portray her in an upcoming biopic.
Franklin is survived by her four children, her older brother Vaughn Franklin, her half-sister Carl Ellan Kelley, and her expansive, influential catalog, which, thankfully, will outlive us all.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM As a 21-year-old Aretha Franklin worked on her singing voice in New York during the summer of 1963, her father, Rev. ...
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As a 21-year-old Aretha Franklin worked on her singing voice in New York during the summer of 1963, her father, Rev. C. L. Franklin, raced to finish the final touches on the planned March on Washington.
Nearly five decades later, Franklin found herself in Washington and performing “My Country `Tis of Thee” at the inauguration of the nation’s first black president.
It wasn’t the first time she sang to a Leader of the Free World.
Throughout her career, the “Queen of Soul” often returned to the nation’s capital for performances that at times put her in line with key moments of U.S. history.
She sang for diplomats, welcomed emperors and brought one president Barack Obama – to tears. Franklin accepted many honors and performed for charities and civil rights groups in Washington. She even got in one heated argument at the White House with another unnamed diva that resulted in the two performers reportedly exchanging obscene gestures toward each other.
For the Memphis, Tennessee-born, Detroitraised Franklin, it’s not surprising she found herself in Washington late in her career. Franklin surrounded herself with the politics of the day and often referenced her experiences alongside episodes of U.S. history in speeches, interviews and her 1999 autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”
She noted in her book, for example, that she was born three months after Pearl Harbor and her father backed Democrat Adlai Stevenson for president in 1956. “Daddy was a staunch, lifelong Democrat, as I am,” she wrote.
Franklin also mentioned that family passed down tales about the historic treatment of African-Americans, from slavery to sharecropping _ something she’d never forget. “My grandmother, whom we all called Big Mama, had worked the fields herself and told us stories of those difficult days,” Franklin wrote in her autobiography. “No matter how much cotton you picked, you always owed the man.” After Franklin found success, she began to make money. “I was intent on enjoying it,” she said. “I tithed and gave to many charities, including Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket, the NAACP, Operation PUSH, UNICEF, and Easter Seals.”
Franklin hit the scene as soul and rhythm and blues had supplanted jazz as the preferred music of young African Americans. Performers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, though respected and admired, were falling out of favor among the younger generation. As a leader in the new soul movement, Franklin gain credibility and Democratic groups and civil rights organizations sought her out for performances that eventually landed her in Washington or near political centers of power.
In 1968, Democrats asked her to sing the national anthem at the Democratic convention in Chicago. As she prepared to sing, police and anti-Vietnam war protesters clashed in the street. Franklin performed although she famously forgot a few lines.
Then the disco era came, and sales of her albums fell. Like soul singers Ray Charles and Nina Simone, she performed overseas in places like Paris and London.
Franklin returned to the spotlight in 1977 during nationally broadcast ” Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Gala” in Washington. In her first performance for a president, she sang ” God Bless America.”
But it was through the election of President Bill Clinton that Aretha Franklin’s career experienced a resurgence. Both Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton told Aretha they grew up on ” Respect” and loved soul. ” To have a fellow baby boomer – a bubba and saxophonist to boot – in the White House, well, let the party began, ” Franklin said. In a violet – tulle-and – silver Bob Mackie evening gown, Franklin performed at two inaugural telecasts. It was during the Clinton celebration that Franklin said. tempers flared over an ” innocuous statement” she made about another diva’s escort and the pair of singers got in a heated argument under ” one of the great works of art in one of the historic rooms ” of the White House, Franklin wrote.
” As we sashayed away from each other, our parting gesture was the finger,” she said.
While Clinton was in the White House, Franklin sang in the Rose Garden during a visit by the emperor and empress of Japan.
In 1994, Franklin returned to Washington, becoming the youngest artist to receive a Kennedy Center honor. Fellow honorees included actor Kirk Douglas and folk singer Pete Seeger. Fellow diva Patti LaBelle performed in Franklin’s honor.
President George W.Bush a Republican, awarded Franklin in 2005 the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award.
Four years later, the Queen of Soul was back in Washington, performing for Obama, the nation’s first black president. Her grey outfit and supporting grey hat dotted with Swarovski crystals, designed by Luke Song, became an Internet sensation and an early meme.
Franklin would perform in front of the Obamas gain in 2015 during a Kennedy Center Honors in Washington to honor songwriter Carole King. King has penned the song.
“(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” that was a huge 1967 hit for Franklin.
Then 73, and much slowed, a fur draped Franklin sat at the piano. The Obamas sang along until Franklin got up from the piano midway through her performance, dropped the fur and belted out notes during the height of the song. Honorees George Lucas, Cicely Tyson, Seiji Ozawa, and Rita Moreno joined the crowd in rising up.
President Obama began to cry.
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The house at 406 Lucy near McLemore and South Third Street in South Memphis had been in foreclosure and Environmental Court.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The birthplace of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was sold on the Shelby County Courthouse steps Friday at noon.
The house at 406 Lucy near McLemore and South Third Street in South Memphis had been in foreclosure and Environmental Court.
Franklin was born at the home on March 25, 1942, to parents Barbara and Rev. C.L. Franklin.
The woman who oversees Historic Clayborn Temple, Anasa Troutman, personally bought the Franklin house.
She says she wants to preserve the house and keep it right where it is as a catalyst to help improve the highly challenged and impoverished neighborhood.
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Who Was Aretha Franklin?
A gifted singer and pianist, Aretha Franklin toured with her father's traveling revival show and later visited New York, where she signed with Columbia Records. Franklin went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics. In 1987 she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2008 she won her 18th Grammy Award, making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.
Early Life and Career
The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C. L." Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer.
Franklin's parents separated by the time she was six, and four years later her mother succumbed to a heart attack. Guided by C. L.'s preaching assignments, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan. C. L. eventually landed at New Bethel Baptist Church, where he gained national renown as a preacher.
Franklin's musical gifts became apparent at an early age. Largely self-taught, she was regarded as a child prodigy. A gifted pianist with a powerful voice, Franklin got her start singing in front of her father's congregation.
By the age of 14, she had recorded some of her earliest tracks at his church, which were released by a small label as the album Songs of Faith in 1956. She also performed with C. L.'s traveling revival show and, while on tour, befriended gospel greats such as Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Clara Ward.
Children
At the age of 12, she became a mother for the first time with a son, Clarence. A second child, Edward, followed two years later — with both sons taking her family's name. Franklin would later have two more sons: Ted White, Jr. and Kecalf Cunningham.
Albums and Songs
'Aretha'
After a brief hiatus, Franklin returned to performing and followed heroes such as Cooke and Dinah Washington into pop and blues territory. In 1960, with her father's blessing, Franklin traveled to New York, where after being courted by several labels, including Motown and RCA, she signed with Columbia Records, who released the album Aretha in 1961.
Though two tracks from Aretha would make the R&B Top 10, a bigger success came that same year with the single "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," which crossed over to No. 37 on the pop charts.
But while Franklin enjoyed moderate results with her recordings over the next few years, they failed to fully showcase her immense talent. In 1966 she and her new husband and manager, Ted White, decided a move was in order, and Franklin signed to Atlantic. Producer Jerry Wexler immediately shuttled Franklin to the Florence Alabama Musical Emporium (FAME) recording studios.
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"
Backed by the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Franklin recorded the single "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)." In the midst of the recording sessions, White quarreled with a member of the band, and White and Franklin left abruptly.
But as the single became a massive Top 10 hit, Franklin re-emerged in New York and was able to complete the partially recorded track, "Do Right Woman—Do Right Man."
'Respect'
Hitting her stride in 1967 and 1968, Franklin churned out a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics, showcasing Franklin's powerful voice and gospel roots in a pop framework.
In 1967, the album I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) was released, and the first song on the album, "Respect" — an empowered cover of an Otis Redding track — reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts and won Franklin her first two Grammy Awards.
She also had Top 10 hits with "Baby I Love You,'' "Think," "Chain of Fools,'' "I Say a Little Prayer," "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
Dubbed the 'Queen of Soul'
Franklin's chart dominance soon earned her the title Queen of Soul, while at the same time she also became a symbol of Black empowerment during the civil rights movement.
In 1968 Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during which she paid tribute to her father's fallen friend with a heartfelt rendition of "Precious Lord." Later that year, she was also selected to sing the national anthem to begin the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Amidst this newfound success, Franklin experienced upheaval in her personal life, and she and White divorced in 1969. But this did not slow Franklin's steady rise, and the new decade brought more hit singles, including "Don't Play That Song," "Spanish Harlem" and her cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
'Amazing Grace'
Spurred by Mahalia Jackson's passing and a subsequent resurgence of interest in gospel music, Franklin returned to her musical origins for the 1972 album Amazing Grace, which sold more than 2 million copies and went on to become the best-selling gospel album at the time.
Franklin's success continued throughout the 1970s, as she branched out to work with producers such as Curtis Mayfield and Quincy Jones and expanded her repertoire to include rock and pop covers. Along the way, she took home eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance, the last coming for her 1974 single "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."
Career Struggles
But by 1975, Franklin's sound was fading into the background with the onset of the disco craze, and an emerging set of young Black singers, such as Chaka Khan and Donna Summer, began to eclipse Franklin's career.
She did, however, find a brief respite from slumping sales with the 1976 soundtrack to the Warner Brothers film Sparkle — which topped the R&B charts and made the Top 20 in pop — as well as an invitation to perform at the 1977 presidential inauguration of Jimmy Carter. In 1978 she also married actor Glynn Turman.
A string of chart failures ended Franklin's relationship with Atlantic in 1979. The same year, her father was hospitalized after a burglary attempt in his home left him in a coma. As her popularity waned and her father's health declined, Franklin was also saddled with a massive bill from the IRS.
However, a cameo in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers helped Franklin revive her flagging career. Performing "Think'' alongside comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd exposed her to a new generation of R&B lovers, and she soon signed to Arista Records.
Her new label released 1982's Jump To It, an album that enjoyed huge success on the R&B charts and earned Franklin a Grammy nomination. Two years later, she endured a divorce from Turman as well as the death of her father.
More Albums and Songs: 1980s and On
'Who's Zoomin' Who?'
In 1985 Franklin returned to the top of the charts with a smash-hit album: the polished pop record Who's Zoomin' Who? Featuring the single "Freeway of Love," as well as a collaboration with the popular rock band The Eurythmics, the record became Franklin's biggest-selling album yet.
'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'
Her follow-up, 1986's Aretha, also charted well and eventually went gold, and her duet with British singer George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),'' hit No. 1 on the pop charts.
In 1987 Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Detroit. That same year, she released the album One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which won the Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance.
Following another relatively quiet period in her career, in 1993, Franklin was invited to sing at the inauguration of Bill Clinton, and the following year she received both a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors. She would also be the focus of multiple documentaries and tributes as the decade progressed.
'A Rose Is Still a Rose'
Nearing its conclusion, Franklin reprised her former role in Blues Brothers 2000, released the gold-selling "A Rose Is Still a Rose" and stood in for Luciano Pavarotti, who was too ill to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, with her rendition of "Nessun Dorma" commanding stellar reviews.
'So Damn Happy'
In 2003 Franklin released her final studio album on Arista, So Damn Happy, and left the label to found Aretha Records. Two years later, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and became the second woman ever to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
In 2008 she received her 18th Grammy Award for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" — a collaboration with Mary J. Blige — and was tapped to sing at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
With 18 Grammys under her belt, Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy history, ranked among the likes of Alison Krauss, Adele and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2011 Franklin released her first album on her own label, A Woman Falling Out of Love.
To support the project, she performed several concerts, including a two-night stint at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York. With fans and critics alike impressed with her performances, she successfully proved that the Queen of Soul still reigned supreme.
'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics'
In 2014 Franklin underscored that point with Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, which reached No. 13 on the pop charts and No. 3 R&B.
In February 2017, the 74-year-old Queen of Soul told Detroit radio station WDIV Local 4 that she was collaborating with Stevie Wonder to release a new album.
“I must tell you, I am retiring this year," she said in the interview, adding: "I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now. I’ll be pretty much satisfied, but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either.”
Death
On August 12, 2018, it was reported that a "gravely ill" Franklin was bedridden in her Detroit home, surrounded by family and friends. As news of her condition spread, more luminaries paid a visit to express their well wishes, including Wonder and Jesse Jackson.
Four days later, on the morning of August 16, Franklin succumbed to her illness, which her family revealed to be pancreatic cancer.
A public viewing was held later that month at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, with fans camping out overnight for the chance to pay their respects to the iconic singer. Her televised funeral was set to be held at the city's Greater Grace Temple on August 31, with Wonder, Khan and Hudson among the scheduled performers, and Jackson, Clinton and Smokey Robinson highlighting the list of speakers.
Movie
In January 2018, it was announced that Franklin hand-picked singer and actress Jennifer Hudson to play her in an upcoming biopic. After being pushed back several times, Respect will be released on August 13, 2021.
QUICK FACTS
Birth Year: 1942
Birth date: March 25, 1942
Birth State: Tennessee
Birth City: Memphis
Birth Country: United States
Gender: Female
Best Known For: Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."
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Music
Astrological Sign: Aries
Interesting Facts
Aretha Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Aretha Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy Award history, winning her 18th honor in 2008.
Death Year: 2018
Death date: August 16, 2018
Death State: Michigan
Death City: Detroit
Death Country: United States
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CITATION INFORMATION
Article Title: Aretha Franklin Biography
Author: Biography.com Editors
Website Name: The Biography.com website
Url: https://www.biography.com/musicians/aretha-franklin
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Publisher: A&E; Television Networks
Last Updated: September 15, 2021
Original Published Date: April 3, 2014
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Celebrated and known worldwide as the Queen of Soul. Despite the fact that she was one of the most famous people on the planet with one of the most distinctive voices the music industry has ever heard, there are still a few things that seem surprising about Aretha Franklin’s remarkable life.
Born Aretha Louise Franklin on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, she learned to play piano entirely by ear. She was self-taught, but came to it naturally, as her mother was a fine pianist and singer herself.
Aretha’s mother passed away before Aretha reached age 10. Several women stepped up to help take care of the Franklin kids, including gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.
Aretha’s father was a preacher and gospel singer, and visitors to the Franklin household included the likes of Sam Cooke, James Cleveland, Clara Ward, Jackie Wilson, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the hits for which Aretha became best known, “Respect,” was originally recorded in 1967 by Otis Redding, who wrote the song.
In 1987, Aretha was the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Gospel Music Association’s Hall of Fame, the NAACP Hall of Fame, the Apollo Theater Legends Hall of Fame, and the UK Music Hall of Fame.
Aretha performed at the inauguration of no less than three U.S. presidents: Jimmy Carter (1977), Bill Clinton (1992), and Barack Obama (2009).
Aretha gave a command performance before Queen Elizabeth II at Royal Albert Hall in 1980.
At her peak, Aretha boasted an astonishing four-octave vocal range.
Aretha was nominated for Grammy Awards 44 times, with 18 wins and three additional special Grammys to her credit.
On Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the Greatest Singers of All Time, Aretha Franklin is number one.
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DETROIT (AP) — The Queen of Soul will forever be remembered at a Detroit post office.
President Donald Trump has signed a law that names a post office for Aretha Franklin, who died in 2018.
“No matter where life took her, Aretha never forgot about her hometown of Detroit,” said U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, a Detroit-area Democrat who sponsored the bill. “Renaming this facility after her is a small gesture of gratitude for her countless contributions to Detroit and the United States.
The post office, known as Fox Creek Station, is about five miles east of downtown Detroit on East Jefferson Avenue. It’s not far from a concert amphitheater on the Detroit River that’s also named for Franklin.
Many supporters hope the Postal Service eventually issues a stamp to honor Franklin.
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Aretha Franklin passed away today.
When The Blues Brothers film was out, THINK was the first soul record that had an earth quake effect on me. Even more than RESPECT. It was its thriving rhythm, the clear loud soul voice of Aretha Franklin and the simple lyrics that got stuck in my head right away.
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You better think (think)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
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The onus is on those seeking to restore and preserve Aretha Franklin's Memphis birthplace to come up with a plan by mid-October, Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandridge said Tuesday.
Dandridge gave the city, receiver Jeffrey Higgs, current home owner Vera House and anyone else with an interest until Oct. 16 to decide how they want to use the dilapidated South Memphis house to honor Franklin, the renowned soul singer who died Aug. 16.
Queen of Soul remembered: Memphis music veterans mourn Aretha Franklin
Interest in the house in which Franklin was born March 25, 1942, has only grown since her passing at age 76. There's no shortage on ideas about what to do with it, but Higgs said he wants to make sure everyone is heard.
"We could start on something tomorrow," Higgs told Dandridge, "but (we) want to make sure we consider everyone."
At least one party, however, isn't so sure her interests are being taken seriously.
Current homeowner concerned about being left out
House, who has owned the home at 406 Lucy Ave. for about 30 years and raised 12 children there, appeared and hoped to pay $300 toward taxes owed. Dandridge declined to take the payment, saying he wanted House involved in discussions before the Oct. 16 court date.
After the hearing, an emotional Patricia Rogers spoke on behalf of House and said she was adamant that House be taken seriously and share in any benefits derived from the property.
“She is a major stakeholder,” Rogers said of House. “I'm going to send a message to this city that she is going to be respected and not exploited or manipulated.”
Rogers added that she has spoken with people connected with Franklin’s family in Detroit, and “not one piece of memorabilia will go into that — whatever they’re trying to do — until (House) is respected.”
House, who now lives on nearby Simpson Avenue, said she isn't interested in living in the home again, as suggested during the hearing as one possible solution for what to do with the house. She just doesn't want to be left out of whatever other plans are floated.
Two pastors spoke on House's behalf as well. Bishop E. Lynn Brown of the CME Church said the church would help House raise money and do anything else necessary to maintain her stake in the house's future.
More: Remembering Aretha Franklin: 'It's like a part of Memphis is dying'
More: Lynn Norment: Aretha Franklin delivered a lifetime of inspiration
"The time has come for this stakeholder to not be railroaded under any political avalanche," Brown said outside the courtroom. "We will stand with her to do whatever it takes for this young lady to be a stakeholder."
A GoFundMe fundraiser also has been established to help preserve the home. Started by Memphis audio engineer Gebre Waddell, the fund has raised $920 toward a $250,000 goal.
City seeks a sustainable solution
Rogers gave a breakdown of taxes and fees owed on the home. She said about $235 is owed in city property taxes for 2017-18, plus another $300 roughly in fees for cutting weeds. House also owes just under $800 in Shelby County property taxes.
Attorney Alan Crone, who appeared with Higgs on behalf of the city of Memphis, said he was satisfied with Dandridge's plan to come back in October. He said he thought it would allow time for all parties to get together.
Crone said during court proceedings that the big concern was making sure the site, whatever is done with it, will be maintained long-term.
"The issue driving this is sustainability over the long haul," Crone said. "Nobody on the scene has stepped up."
Crone and Higgs asked Dandridge to set a deadline for a restoration plan. Dandridge punted the issue back into the hands of Higgs and Crone, however, saying it was the receiver’s role to contact all interested parties and come back with a plan.
Higgs, with the South Memphis Renewal Community Corp., was named receiver after retired Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter put the property into receivership during the years-long discussion over what to do with the site. At one time, it looked like the house might be demolished as a public nuisance.
Grant money in place, but no will for Franklin's estate
Higgs said shortly after Franklin's death that those seeking to restore the home were "in a pretty good position to move forward."
He noted at the time that untangling ownership issues with House was among the problems that have slowed plans for the home's future. He said grant money has been secured and a plan is in place that he cannot yet discuss.
Franklin's connection to the home over the years was thin. Though born there, her family moved to Detroit when she was 2 years old, and Franklin was always associated more with that city.
She did in later years, however, express some interest in maintaining the Memphis home. Higgs said he spoke to her personally about it.
Franklin, who died in Detroit of pancreatic cancer, left no will and there were no plans for her estate to assist in any restoration or maintenance of the Memphis property.
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A time line of major events in the life and work of Aretha Franklin:
March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in Detroit when Aretha was 4. She would call the city home for most of her life, and would always be closely associated with its massive musical legacy.
1956 — Franklin releases her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith," recorded at her father's church when she was 14.
1961 — Franklin marries her manager, Ted White. Their troubled eight-year union is believed to have inspired her performances on many songs.
February 1961 — Franklin releases her first album for Columbia Records. She would have only minor hits in her six years with the label, which pushed her toward jazz and show tunes and away from her gospel roots.
November 1966 — Franklin signs with Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler encourages her to embrace her classic soul and gospel sound. Several classic songs immediately followed, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."
February 1967 — "Respect," Franklin's career-defining anthem, is recorded. The song would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. A month later it would be the opening track on her breakthrough album, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)."
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June 1972 — A live gospel album, "Amazing Grace," is released amid a revival in spiritual music. It sold more than 2 million copies and is among Franklin's biggest hits.
January 1977 — Franklin sings "God Bless America" at the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.
June 1980 — The hit comedy film "The Blues Brothers" is released, with Franklin appearing and singing "Think" in one of the film's most popular scenes. It signaled that the 1980s would bring a career revival.
July 1985 — "Freeway of Love" off of Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who" album, becomes her first top 10 hit in more than a decade.
January 1987 — Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
April 1987 — "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)," a duet with George Michael, reaches No. 1 on the pop chart.
December 1994 — Franklin, at age 52, becomes the youngest person ever chosen for a Kennedy Center honor. In his tribute, President Bill Clinton said he and the first lady considered her among their favorite artists. "You could say that Hillary and I went to college and law school with Aretha because there was scarcely a day when we didn't listen to one of her songs," said the president.
September 1999 — She receives the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award from President Bill Clinton, who says Franklin "brought sunshine to a rainy day and tenderness to a hardened heart."
November 2005 — President George Bush presents her with the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.
February 2008 — Franklin wins her last Grammy Award — her 18th — for Best Gospel Performance for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. She also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and a Living Legend award.
January 2009 — Franklin sings "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
October 2014 — Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" reaches No. 47 on Billboard's R&B chart. It's Franklin's 100th charting single, making her the first woman to reach the milestone.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", and "Spanish Harlem".
By the end of the 1960s she was being called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Young, Gifted and Black (1972) and Amazing Grace (1972), before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, she left Atlantic and signed with Arista Records, finding success with the albums Jump to It (1982) and Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), and her part in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In 1998, Franklin received international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards that year, replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that year, she scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a Rose".
Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin's other well-known hits include "Rock Steady", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael), and a remake of The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, from 1968 through to 1975, and is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.[1]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” ’'I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
She died at her home in Detroit — “one of the darkest moments of our lives,” her family said, in a statement released to The Associated Press by publicist Gwendolyn Quinn.
“We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world ,” the family said, adding that funeral arrangements would be announced in coming days.
Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, announced her retirement from touring last year.
A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time . Her gifts, natural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and training worthy of a preacher’s daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.
“She was truly one of a kind,” said Clive Davis, the music mogul who brought her to Arista Records and helped revive her career in the 1980s. “She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world.”
She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century , including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” to the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to her unstoppable call for “Respect.”
Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn’t honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fellow singers bowed to her eminence. Said Smokey Robinson, who grew up with her in Detroit: “This morning my longest friend in this world went home to be with our Father. I will miss her so much but I know she’s at peace.”
Political and civic leaders treated her as a peer. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a longtime friend, and she sang at the dedication of King’s memorial, in 2011. She performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts. President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005.
Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement mourning the loss of their friend and “one of America’s greatest treasures.” For more than 50 years, they said, Franklin “stirred our souls. She was elegant, graceful, and utterly uncompromising in her artistry.”
Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ‘tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute to the song’s co-writer, Carole King.
Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. She was married from 1961 to 1969 to her manager, Ted White, and their battles are widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ’'Think” and her heartbreaking ballad of despair, “Ain’t No Way.” The mother of two sons by age 16 (she later had two more), she was often in turmoil as she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial predicaments. Her best known producer, Jerry Wexler, nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”
Franklin married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 in Los Angeles but returned to her hometown of Detroit the following year after her father was shot by burglars and left semi-comatose until his death in 1984. She and Turman divorced that year.
Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.
C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.
Franklin occasionally performed at New Bethel Baptist throughout her career; her 1987 gospel album “One Lord One Faith One Baptism” was recorded live at the church.
Her most acclaimed gospel recording came in 1972 with the Grammy-winning album “Amazing Grace,” which was recorded live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Central Los Angeles and featured gospel legend James Cleveland, along with her own father (Mick Jagger was one of the celebrities in the audience). It became one of the best-selling gospel albums ever.
The piano she began learning at age 8 became a jazzy component of much of her work, including arranging as well as songwriting. “If I’m writing and I’m producing and singing, too, you get more of me that way, rather than having four or five different people working on one song,” Franklin told The Detroit News in 2003.
Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and she released a gospel album in 1956 through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.
Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on as the label tried to fit into her a variety of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird.” Franklin jumped to Atlantic Records when her contract ran out, in 1966.
“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.
“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”
At Atlantic, Wexler teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, and the result was a tougher, soulful sound, with call-and-response vocals and Franklin’s gospel-style piano, which anchored “I Say a Little Prayer,” ’'Natural Woman” and others.
Of Franklin’s dozens of hits, none was linked more firmly to her than the funky, horn-led march “Respect” and its spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.”
Writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, Wexler said: “There are songs that are a call to action. There are love songs. There are sex songs. But it’s hard to think of another song where all those elements are combined.”
Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965, Wexler said.
“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” the producer wrote. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”
In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ‘60s that she was helping change popular music.
“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”
In 1968, Franklin was pictured on the cover of Time magazine and had more than 10 Top 20 hits in 1967 and 1968. At a time of rebellion and division, Franklin’s records were a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial assembly of top session musicians based mostly in Alabama.
Her popularity faded during the 1970s despite such hits as the funky “Rock Steady” and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” But her career was revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista . Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track and “Freeway of Love.”
Critics consistently praised Franklin’s singing but sometimes questioned her material; she covered songs by Stephen Sondheim, Bread, the Doobie Brothers. For Aretha, anything she performed was “soul.”
From her earliest recording sessions, she defied category. The 1998 Grammys gave her a chance to demonstrate her range. Franklin performed “Respect,” then, with only a few minutes’ notice, filled in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti and drew rave reviews for her rendition of “Nessun Dorma,” a stirring aria for tenors from Puccini’s “Turandot.”
“I’m sure many people were surprised, but I’m not there to prove anything,” Franklin told The Associated Press. “Not necessary.”
Fame never eclipsed Franklin’s charitable works, or her loyalty to Detroit.
Franklin sang the national anthem at Super Bowl in her hometown in 2006, after grousing that Detroit’s rich musical legacy was being snubbed when the Rolling Stones were chosen as halftime performers.
“I didn’t think there was enough (Detroit representation) by any means,” she said. “And it was my feeling, ‘How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends — musical legends, plural — and not ask one or two of them to participate?’ That’s not the way it should be.”
Franklin did most of her extensive touring by bus after Redding’s death in a 1967 plane crash, and a rough flight to Detroit in 1982 left her with a fear of flying that anti-anxiety tapes and classes couldn’t help. She told Time in 1998 that the custom bus was a comfortable alternative: “You can pull over, go to Red Lobster. You can’t pull over at 35,000 feet.”
She only released a few albums over the past two decades, including “A Rose is Still a Rose,” which featured songs by Sean “Diddy” Combs, Lauryn Hill and other contemporary artists, and “So Damn Happy,” for which Franklin wrote the gratified title ballad. Franklin’s autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots,” came out in 1999, when she was in her 50s. But she always made it clear that her story would continue.
“Music is my thing, it’s who I am. I’m in it for the long run,” she told The Associated Press in 2008. “I’ll be around, singing, ‘What you want, baby I got it.’ Having fun all the way.”
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"Aretha" and "Queen of Soul" redirect here. For other uses, see Aretha (disambiguation) and Queen of Soul (disambiguation).
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.[2] Honored as the "Queen of Soul", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time.[3][4]
As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she was signed as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While her career did not immediately flourish, Franklin found acclaim and commercial success once she signed with Atlantic Records in 1966. She recorded albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit in the Dark (1970), Young, Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976), before experiencing problems with the record company. Franklin left Atlantic in 1979 and signed with Arista Records. Her success continued with the albums Jump to It (1982), Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), Aretha (1986) and A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998).
Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists, with over 75 million records sold worldwide.[5] She recorded 112 charted singles on the US Billboard charts, including 73 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 96 R&B entries[6] and 20 number-one R&B singles. Her best-known hits include "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Ain't No Way", "Call Me", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", "Day Dreaming", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (a duet with George Michael) and "A Rose Is Still a Rose". Aside from music, she appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.
Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career. She won 18 Grammy Awards (out of 44 nominations),[7][8] including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (1968–1975), a Grammy Awards Living Legend honor and Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1987, she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her other inductions include the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012,[9] and posthumously the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.[10] In 2019, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded her a posthumous special citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".
Early life
Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin. She was delivered at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Both Mr. and Mrs. Franklin had children from prior relationships in addition to the four children they had together. When Aretha was two, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York.[13] By the time Aretha turned five, C. L. Franklin had permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of the New Bethel Baptist Church.
The Franklins had a troubled marriage due to Mr. Franklin's infidelities, and they separated in 1948. At that time, Barbara Franklin returned to Buffalo with Aretha's half-brother, Vaughn. After the separation, Aretha recalled seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, and Barbara Franklin frequently visited her children in Detroit. Aretha's mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, before Aretha's 10th birthday. Several women, including Aretha's grandmother, Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson, took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Aretha learned how to play piano by ear. She also attended public school in Detroit, going through her first year at Northern High School, but dropping out during her second year.[21]
Aretha's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in his being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice". He earned thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. His fame led to his home being visited by various celebrities. Among the visitors were gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland, and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke all became friends of C. L. Franklin, as well.[24] Ward was romantically involved with Aretha's father from around 1949 until Ward's death in 1973, though Aretha "preferred to view them strictly as friends". Ward also served as a role model to the young Aretha.[28]
Musical career
1952–1960: Beginnings
Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel Baptist Church, debuting with the hymn "Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me".[29] When Franklin was 12, her father began managing her; he would take her on the road with him, during his "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches. He also helped her sign her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records. Franklin was featured on vocals and piano.[31] In 1956, J.V.B. released Franklin's first single, "Never Grow Old", backed with "You Grow Closer". "Precious Lord (Part One)" backed with "Precious Lord (Part Two)" followed in 1959. These four tracks, with the addition of "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", were released on side one of the 1956 album, Spirituals. This was reissued by Battle Records in 1962, under the same title.[32] In 1965, Checker Records released Songs of Faith, featuring the five tracks from the 1956 Spirituals album, with the addition of four previously unreleased recordings. Aretha was only 14 when Songs of Faith was recorded.[33]
During this time, Franklin would occasionally travel with the Soul Stirrers. As a young gospel singer, Franklin spent summers on the gospel circuit in Chicago and stayed with Mavis Staples' family.[35] According to music producer Quincy Jones, while Franklin was still young, Dinah Washington let him know that "Aretha was the 'next one'".[36] Franklin and her father traveled to California, where she met singer Sam Cooke. At the age of 16, Franklin went on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and she would ultimately sing at his funeral in 1968.[38] Other influences in her youth included Marvin Gaye (who was a boyfriend of her sister), as well as Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, "two of Franklin's greatest influences".[39] Also important was James Cleveland, known as the King of Gospel music, "who helped to focus her early career as a gospel singer"; Cleveland had been recruited by her father as a pianist for the Southern California Community Choir.[40][41]
1960–1966: Columbia years
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke in recording pop music, and moved to New York. Serving as her manager, C. L. Franklin agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960, as a "five-percent artist". During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to sign her with his label, RCA Victor, but she had already decided to go with Columbia.[33] Berry Gordy had also asked Franklin and her elder sister Erma to sign with his Tamla label, but C.L. Franklin turned Gordy down, as he felt Tamla was not yet an established label.[43] Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sing the Blues",[44] was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top 10 of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.[45]
In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, "Won't Be Long", which also peaked at number 7 on the R&B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her performing in diverse genres, such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first with her hit-single rendition of the standard "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody".[47] By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a "new-star female vocalist" in DownBeat magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin,[49][50] the latter of which reached number 69 on the Billboard chart.[51]
In the 1960s, during a performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, WVON radio personality Pervis Spann announced that Franklin should be crowned "the Queen of Soul".[52][35] Spann ceremonially placed a crown on her head.[53] By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top 10 on the R&B chart with the ballad "Runnin' Out of Fools", in early 1965. She had two R&B charted singles in 1965 and 1966, with the songs "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", while also reaching the Easy Listening charts with the ballads "You Made Me Love You" and "(No, No) I'm Losing You". By the mid-1960s, Franklin was making $100,000 per year from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, she appeared on rock-and-roll shows, such as Hollywood a Go-Go and Shindig! However, she struggled with commercial success while at Columbia. Label executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her period there.[44]
1966–1979: Atlantic years
In November 1966, Franklin's Columbia recording contract expired; at that time, she owed the company money because record sales had not met expectations.[54] Producer Jerry Wexler convinced her to move to Atlantic Records.[55][56] Wexler decided that he wanted to take advantage of her gospel background; his philosophy in general was to encourage a "tenacious form of rhythm & blues that became increasingly identified as soul".[41] The Atlantic days would lead to a series of hits for Aretha Franklin from 1967 to early 1972; her rapport with Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of her peak recordings with Atlantic. The next seven years' achievements were less impressive. However, according to Rolling Stone, "they weren't as terrible as some claimed, they were pro forma and never reached for new heights".[57]
In January 1967, Franklin traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record at FAME Studios and recorded the song "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Franklin only spent one day recording at FAME, as an altercation broke out between her manager and husband Ted White, studio owner Rick Hall, and a horn player, and sessions were abandoned.[44][58] The song was released the following month and reached number one on the R&B chart, while also peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top-ten pop single. The song's B-side, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", reached the R&B top 40, peaking at number 37. "Respect" was Otis Redding's song but Aretha modified it with a "supercharged interlude featuring the emphatic spelling-out of the song's title".[40] Her frenetic version was released in April and reached number one on both the R&B and pop charts. "Respect" became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem.[44][59] Upon hearing her version, Otis Redding said admiringly: "That little girl done took my song away from me."[60] Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. According to National Geographic, this recording "would catapult Franklin to fame".[57] Franklin scored two additional top-ten singles in 1967, "Baby I Love You" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".[61]
Working with Wexler and Atlantic, Franklin had become "the most successful singer in the nation" by 1968.[62] In 1968, Franklin issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of her most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.[63] On February 16, Franklin was honored with a day named for her and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King Jr., who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians two months before his death. Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in late April/May 1968, including an appearance at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam,[67] where she played to a near-hysterical audience who covered the stage with flower petals.[68] She performed two concerts in London, at the Finsbury Park Astoria and the Hammersmith Odeon on May 11 and May 12.[69] In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine in a portrait illustration by Boris Chaliapin.[70]
In March 1969, Franklin was unanimously voted winner of Académie du Jazz's R&B award, Prix Otis Redding, for her albums Lady Soul, Aretha Now, and Aretha in Paris.[71] That year, Franklin was the subject of a criminal impersonation scheme. Another woman performed at several Florida venues under the name Aretha Franklin. Suspicion was drawn when the fake Franklin charged only a fraction of the expected rate to perform. Franklin's lawyers contacted Florida authorities and uncovered a coercive scheme in which the singer, Vickie Jones, had been threatened with violence and constrained into impersonating her idol, whom she resembled closely both in voice and looks.[72] After being cleared of wrongdoing, Jones subsequently enjoyed a brief career of her own, during which she was herself the subject of an impersonation.
Franklin's success further expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded the multi-week R&B number one "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", as well as the top-ten singles "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", and "Day Dreaming". Some of these releases were from the acclaimed albums Spirit in the Dark (released in August 1970, in which month she again performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon)[73] and Young, Gifted and Black (released in early 1972). In 1971, Franklin became the first R&B performer to headline Fillmore West, later that year releasing the live album Aretha Live at Fillmore West.[74]
In January 1972, she returned to Gospel music in a two-night, live-church recording, with the album Amazing Grace, in which she reinterpreted standards such as Mahalia Jackson's "How I Got Over".[75] Originally released in June 1972, Amazing Grace sold more than two million copies,[76] and is one of bestselling gospel albums of all time.[77] The live performances were filmed for a concert film directed by Sydney Pollack, but due to synching problems and Franklin's own attempts to prevent the film's distribution after Hollywood refused to promote a dark-skinned black woman as a movie star at the time, the film's release was only realized by producer Alan Elliott in November 2018.[78]
Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album Hey Now Hey, which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single "Angel", the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having R&B success with songs such as "Until You Come Back to Me" and "I'm in Love", but by 1975 her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. Records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film Sparkle with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top-40 hit of the decade, "Something He Can Feel", which also peaked at number one on the R&B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic, including Sweet Passion (1977), Almighty Fire (1978) and La Diva (1979), bombed on the charts, and in 1979 Franklin left the company.[79] On November 7, 1979, she guested The Mike Douglas Show with her yellow costume from her La Diva album, and sang "Ladies Only", "What If I Should Ever Need You" and "Yesterday" by the Beatles.[80]
1980–2007: Arista years
In 1980, after leaving Atlantic Records,[81] Franklin signed with Clive Davis's Arista Records.[82] "Davis was beguiling and had the golden touch", according to Rolling Stone. "If anybody could rejuvenate Franklin's puzzlingly stuck career, it was Davis."[41] Also in 1980, Franklin gave a command performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Franklin also had an acclaimed guest role as a soul food restaurant proprietor and wife of Matt "Guitar" Murphy in the 1980 comedy musical The Blues Brothers.[83][84] Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha (1980), featured the number-three R&B hit "United Together" and her Grammy-nominated cover of Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose". The follow-up, 1981's Love All the Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson, while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'". Franklin achieved a gold record—for the first time in seven years—with the 1982 album Jump to It. The album's title track was her first top-40 single on the pop charts in six years.[85] The following year, she released "Get It Right", produced by Luther Vandross.[86]
In 1985, inspired by a desire to have a "younger sound" in her music, Who's Zoomin' Who? became her first Arista album to be certified platinum. The album sold well over a million copies thanks to the hits "Freeway of Love", the title track, and "Another Night".[87] The next year's Aretha album nearly matched this success with the hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Jimmy Lee" and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", her international number-one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the TV shows A Different World and Together.[88] In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's New Bethel church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989.
In 1987, Franklin performed "America the Beautiful" at WWE's Wrestlemania III; one source states that "to this day her WrestleMania III performance might be the most memorable" of the event openers by many artists.[89] After 1988, "Franklin never again had huge hits", according to Rolling Stone.[41] The 1991 album What You See is What You Sweat flopped on the charts. She returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song "A Deeper Love" and returned to the top 40 with the song "Willing to Forgive" in 1994.[90] That recording reached number 26 on the Hot 100 and number five on the R&B chart. In 1989, Franklin filmed a music video for a remake of "Think".[91] In 1990, she sang "I Want to Be Happy", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", and "Someone Else's Eyes" at the MDA Labor Day Telethon.[92][93] In 1995, she was selected to play Aunt Em in the Apollo Theater revival of The Wiz. Franklin's final top 40 single was 1998's "A Rose Is Still a Rose". The album of the same name was released after the single. It sold over 500,000 copies, earning gold certification.[94]
That same year, Franklin received global praise after her 1998 Grammy Awards performance. She had initially been asked to perform in honor of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, in which she appeared with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. That evening, after the show had already begun, another performer, opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti became too ill to perform the aria "Nessun dorma" as planned. The show's producers, desperate to fill the time slot, approached Franklin with their dilemma. She was a friend of Pavarotti and had sung the aria two nights prior at the annual MusiCares event. She asked to hear Pavarotti's rehearsal recording, and after listening, agreed that she could sing it in the tenor range that the orchestra was prepared to play in. Over one billion people worldwide saw the performance, and she received an immediate standing ovation. She would go on to record the selection and perform it live several more times in the years to come. The last time she sang the aria live was for Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015. A small boy was so touched by her performance that he came onto the stage and embraced her while Franklin was still singing.[95][96]
Her final Arista album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful". In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Arista after more than 20 years with the label.[97] To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen in 2007.[98] In February 2006, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit.[99]
2007–2018: Final years
In 2008, Franklin issued the holiday album This Christmas, Aretha on DMI Records.[100] On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year, and performed "Never Gonna Break My Faith", which had won her the Grammy for best Gospel performance[101] the year before. Twelve years later, an unheard performance of "Never Gonna Break My Faith" was released in June 2020 to commemorate Juneteenth with a new video visualizing the American human rights movement. This caused the song to enter the Billboard gospel charts at number one, giving Franklin the distinction of having had a number one record in every decade since the 1960s. On November 18, 2008, she performed "Respect" and "Chain of Fools" at Dancing with the Stars.
On January 20, 2009, Franklin made international headlines for performing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University.[99] In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love.
In 2014, Franklin was signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and worked with Clive Davis. There were plans for her to record an album produced by Danger Mouse, who was replaced with Babyface and Don Was when Danger Mouse left the project.[102] On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Cissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of "Rolling in the Deep" was featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released in October 2014.[103] In doing so, she became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which debuted at number 47 on the chart.[104]
In December 2015, Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King, who co-wrote the song.[105][106][107] During the bridge of the song, Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation.[108][109] Dropping the coat was symbolic according to "Rolling Stone": it "echoed back to those times when gospel queens would toss their furs on top of the coffins of other gospel queens — a gesture that honored the dead but castigated death itself".[41]
She returned to Detroit's Ford Field on Thanksgiving Day 2016 to once again perform the national anthem before the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Seated behind the piano, wearing a black fur coat and Lions stocking cap, Franklin gave a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that lasted more than four minutes and featured a host of improvisations.[110] Franklin released the album A Brand New Me in November 2017 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which uses archived recordings from Franklin.[111]
While Franklin canceled some concerts in 2017 for health reasons, and during an outdoor Detroit show, she asked the audience to "keep me in your prayers", she was still garnering highly favorable reviews for her skill and showmanship.[112][113][114] At the Ravinia Festival on September 3, 2017, she gave her last full concert.[115][116] Franklin's final public performance was at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City during Elton John's 25th anniversary gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on November 7, 2017.[117]
Music style and image
According to Richie Unterberger, Franklin was "one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged".[1] She had often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience". Franklin's voice was described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice". She was praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. According to David Remnick, what "distinguishes her is not merely the breadth of her catalog or the cataract force of her vocal instrument; it's her musical intelligence, her way of singing behind the beat, of spraying a wash of notes over a single word or syllable, of constructing, moment by moment, the emotional power of a three-minute song. 'Respect' is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase."[109] Describing Franklin's voice on her first album, Songs of Faith, released in 1956 when she was just 14, Jerry Wexler explained that it "was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hierophant". Critic Randy Lewis assessed her skills as a pianist as "magic" and "inspirational". Musicians and professionals alike such as Elton John, Keith Richards, Carole King, and Clive Davis were fans of her piano performances.[121] In 2015, President Barack Obama wrote the following regarding Franklin:
Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That's why, when she sits down at a piano and sings 'A Natural Woman,' she can move me to tears—the same way that Ray Charles's version of 'America the Beautiful' will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed—because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.[122]
Activism
From her time growing up in the home of a prominent African-American preacher to the end of her life, Franklin was immersed and involved in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights. She provided money for civil rights groups, at times covering payroll, and performed at benefits and protests.[123] When Angela Davis was jailed in 1970, Franklin told Jet: "Angela Davis must go free ... Black people will be free. I've been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I'm going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she's a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people."[123] Her songs "Respect" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" became anthems of these movements for social change.[124][125] Franklin and several other American icons declined to take part in performing at President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration as a mass act of musical protest.[126] Franklin was also a strong supporter of Native American rights.[127] She quietly and without fanfare supported Indigenous peoples' struggles worldwide, and numerous movements that supported Native American and First Nation cultural rights.[127]
Personal life
Franklin moved to New York City from Detroit in the 1960s where she lived until relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino, where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintained a residence there until her death. Following an incident in 1984, she cited a fear of flying that prevented her from traveling overseas; she performed only in North America afterwards.[52] Franklin was Baptist.[128]
Franklin was the mother of four sons. She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. In one of her handwritten wills, discovered in 2019, Franklin revealed that the father was Edward Jordan.[130] On August 31, 1957, at the age of 15, Franklin had a second child fathered by Jordan, named Edward Derone Franklin after his father.[131] Franklin did not like to discuss her early pregnancies with interviewers. Both children took her family name. While Franklin was pursuing her singing career and "hanging out with [friends]", her grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising her children. Franklin would visit them often. Her third child, Ted White Jr., was born to Franklin and her husband Theodore "Ted" White in February 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts.[136] Her youngest son, Kecalf Cunningham, was born in April 1970 and is the child of her road manager Ken Cunningham.[137]
Franklin was married twice. Her first husband was Ted White, whom she married in 1961 at the age of 18.[138][139] She had actually seen White the first time at a party held at her house in 1954. After a contentious marriage that was marred by domestic abuse, Franklin separated from White in 1968 and divorced him in 1969. She married actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978, at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after she returned to Michigan from California and they divorced in 1984.
Franklin's sisters, Erma and Carolyn, were professional musicians and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Her sister Carolyn died in April 1988 from breast cancer and her eldest sister Erma died from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's half-brother Vaughn died in late 2002.[142] Her half-sister, Carol Ellan Kelley (née Jennings; 1940–2019), was C. L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a 12-year-old member of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis where C. L. was pastor.[142] Franklin's father and idol, described as "unorthodox on every level," knowingly preyed on his pre-teen congregants.[143]
Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10, 1979, when her father, C. L., was shot twice at point-blank range in his Detroit home. After six months at Henry Ford Hospital while still in a coma, C. L. was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.
Franklin had a long friendship with Willie Wilkerson, a Vietnam War veteran and Detroit firefighter, who also helped in her work and cared for her when ill.[146] In 2012 she announced plans to marry Wilkerson[147][148] but the engagement was quickly called off.[149] Franklin's music business friends included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, and Cissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Houston sang background on Franklin's hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's young daughter, Whitney Houston, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt (not a godmother as has been occasionally reported) and Whitney often referred to her as "Auntie Ree".[150] Franklin had to cancel plans to perform at Whitney Houston's memorial service on February 18, 2012, due to a leg spasm.[151] Franklin was a registered Democrat.[152][153] While her estate had been estimated at $80 million,[154] according to the New York Times, at her death it was valued at $18 million.[155]
Health
Franklin had weight issues for many years. In 1974, she lost 40 pounds (18 kg) on a very-low-calorie diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade. She again lost weight in the early 1990s, before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. She admitted in 1994 that her smoking was "messing with my voice", but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight "ballooned".
In 2010, Franklin canceled a number of concerts to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying that it would "add 15 to 20 years" to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as had been reported.[162] Franklin added, "I don't have to talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors ... The problem has been resolved". Following the surgery, Franklin lost 85 lbs.; however, she denied that she had undergone weight-loss surgery.[163] On May 19, 2011, Franklin had her comeback show at the Chicago Theatre.[164]
In May 2013, Franklin canceled two performances because of an undisclosed medical treatment.[165] Further concert cancellations followed in the summer[166][167][168] and fall.[169] During a phone interview with the Associated Press in late August 2013, Franklin stated that she had had a "miraculous" recovery from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until her health was at 100%, estimating she was about "85% healed".[170] Franklin later returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel. She launched a multi-city tour in mid-2014, starting with a performance on June 14 in New York at Radio City Music Hall.[171]
In February 2017, Franklin announced in an interview with local Detroit television anchor Evrod Cassimy, that 2017 would be her final year touring.[172] However, she scheduled some 2018 concert dates before canceling them based on her physician's advice.[122]
Death and funeral
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit.[173][174] She was under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson and former husband Glynn Turman visited her on her deathbed.[175] Franklin died at her home on August 16, 2018, aged 76.[176] She was initially thought to have died without a will.[177][178] The cause of death was a malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET),[179][180] which is distinct from the most common form of pancreatic cancer.[181][182] Numerous celebrities in the entertainment industry and politicians paid tribute to Franklin, including former U.S. President Barack Obama who said she "helped define the American experience".[183] Civil rights activist and minister Al Sharpton called her a "civil rights and humanitarian icon".[184]
A memorial service was held at her home church, New Bethel Baptist Church, on August 19.[185] Thousands then paid their respects during the public lying-in-repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.[186] The August 31 Homegoing Service held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, included multiple tributes by celebrities, politicians, friends and family members and was streamed by some news agencies[187] such as Fox News, CNN, The Word Network, BET and MSNBC.[188] Among those who paid tribute to Aretha at the service were Ariana Grande, Bill Clinton, Rev. Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Faith Hill, Fantasia, the Clark Sisters, Ronald Isley, Angie Stone, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Shirley Caesar,[189] Shirma Rouse,[190] Stevie Wonder, Eric Holder, Gladys Knight, Cedric the Entertainer, Tyler Perry, Smokey Robinson, Yolanda Adams, and Rev. Dr. William Barber II.[191][192] At Franklin's request she was eulogized by Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, as he had eulogized her father as well as speaking at other family memorials.[193] Williams's eulogy was criticized for being "a political address that described children being in a home without a father as 'abortion after birth' and said black lives do not matter unless blacks stop killing each other". Franklin's nephew Vaughan complained of Williams: "He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her."[194][195] Following a telecast procession up Seven Mile Road, Franklin was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.[196][197]
Legacy and honors
Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King,[200][201][202] and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 by then President George W. Bush. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005,[203] and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015.[204] Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. In 2019 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation "[f]or her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".[205] Franklin was the first individual woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.[206] At the beginning of her career, Siouxsie Sioux named her as her favourite female singer.[207]
In 2010 Franklin was ranked first on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"[3] and ninth on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[208] Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams.[209] That same year, she was ranked 19th among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists.[210][211]
When Rolling Stone listed the "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" in 2002 and again 2012, it listed Franklin's 1967, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, number one.[212] Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin was described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America".[214] Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014.[215] The next year, Billboard named her the greatest female R&B artist of all time.[216] In 2018, Franklin was inducted in to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
"American history wells up when Aretha sings", President Obama explained in response to her performance of "A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. "Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope."[109] Franklin later recalled the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors as one of the best nights of her life.[109] On June 8, 2017, the City of Detroit honored Franklin's legacy by renaming a portion of Madison Street, between Brush and Witherell Streets, Aretha Franklin Way.[217] The Aretha Franklin Post Office Building was named in 2021, and is located at 12711 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.[218]
Rolling Stone called Franklin "the greatest singer of her generation".[41] In April 2021, Aretha Franklin was featured in National Geographic magazine and in the previous month, the society began airing the third season of the television series Genius about her life and career.[219][220] After working with the artist for nearly four decades, Clive Davis, said that Aretha "understood the essence of both language and melody and was able to take it to a place very few—if any—could". According to National Geographic, "she was a musical genius unmatched in her range, power, and soul".[220]
Honorary degrees
Franklin received honorary degrees from Harvard University and New York University in 2014,[221] as well as honorary doctorates in music from Princeton University, 2012;[222] Yale University, 2010;[223] Brown University, 2009;[224] the University of Pennsylvania, 2007;[225] Berklee College of Music, 2006;[226] the New England Conservatory of Music, 1997;[227] and the University of Michigan, 1987.[228] She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Case Western Reserve University 2011[229] and Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Bethune–Cookman University in 1975.[230]
Tributes
After Franklin's death, fans added unofficial tributes to two New York City Subway stations: the Franklin Street station in Manhattan, served by the 1 train, and the Franklin Avenue station in Brooklyn, served by the C and S trains. Both stations were originally named after other people. Although the fan tributes were later taken down, the subway system's operator, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, placed permanent black-and-white stickers with the word "Respect" next to the "Franklin" name signs in each station.[231][232]
During the American Music Awards on October 9, 2018, the show was closed by bringing Gladys Knight, Donnie McClurkin, Ledisi, Cece Winans, and Mary Mary together to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The "all-star" group performed gospel songs, including renditions from Franklin's 1972 album, Amazing Grace.[233][234]
A tribute concert, "Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul", was organized by CBS and the Recording Academy[235] on January 13, 2019, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The concert included performances by Smokey Robinson, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Alessia Cara, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Hudson, Chloe x Halle, H.E.R., SZA, Brandi Carlile, Yolanda Adams and Shirley Caesar,[236][237] and was recorded for television, airing on March 10.[238][239]
At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, the ceremony was ended with a memorial tribute to the life and career of Franklin. The tribute concluded with a rendition of her 1968 hit, "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)", performed by Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Andra Day and Yolanda Adams.[240]
In June 2023, Aretha – A Love Letter to the Queen of Soul opened at Sydney Opera House before heading to Brisbane and Melbourne. Australian playwright, actor and screenwriter Jada Alberts directed and narrated the musical, which featured Emma Donovan, Montaigne, Thandi Phoenix, Thndo, and Ursula Yovich, along with a nine-piece band.[241]
Portrayals in media
On January 29, 2018, Gary Graff confirmed that Jennifer Hudson would play Franklin in an upcoming biopic.[242] Franklin's biopic Respect was released in August 2021 in various countries.[243][244] On February 10, 2019, it was announced that the subject of the third season of the American National Geographic anthology television series Genius would be Franklin, in the "first-ever, definitive scripted miniseries on the life of the universally acclaimed Queen of Soul".[245] The season, starring Cynthia Erivo as Franklin, was aired in March 2021. However, Franklin's family denounced the series, claiming to be uninvolved with the production process, despite the production team stating that the series had been endorsed by the Franklin estate.[246]
Discography
Main article: Aretha Franklin discography
Studio albums
Filmography
Concerts, Specials, Appearances
1967–1982: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – Guest
1968: Aretha Franklin and The Sweet Inspirations in Concert
1968: The Hollywood Palace – Guest
1969: 41st Academy Awards – Performer
1970: This is Tom Jones – Guest
1970: It's Cliff Richard – Guest – BBC
1970: It's Lulu – Guest – BBC
1978: Dick Clark's Live Wednesday – Guest – ABC
1978: Aretha Franklin Live in Canada – ITV
1978: Kennedy Center Honors – CBS
1981–1985: Solid Gold – Performer – CBS
1982: It's Not Easy Bein' Me – Guest – NBC
1983: American Music Awards of 1983 – Performer/Host – ABC
1983: Midem '83 – Performer – TF1
1985: Soundstage – Performer – PBS
1986: American Music Awards of 1986 – Performer – ABC
1988: James Brown and Friends: Set Fire To The Soul – Performer – HBO
1990: Night of 100 Stars III – Performer – NBC
1991–1992: The Joan Rivers Show – Performer – HBO
1992: 23rd Annual Grammy Awards – Performer – CBS
1992: Kennedy Center Honors -Performer – CBS
1993: Evening at Pops – Performer – PBS
Documentaries
1972: Black Rodeo (documentary)
1990: Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (documentary)
2003: Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (documentary)
2012: The Zen of Bennett (documentary)
2013: Muscle Shoals (documentary)
2018: Amazing Grace (documentary)
As an actress
1972: Room 222 (as Inez Jackson)
1980: The Blues Brothers (as Mrs. Murphy)
1991: Murphy Brown (as Herself)
1997: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (as voice of Homebuilt Computer)
1998: Blues Brothers 2000 (as Mrs. Murphy)
See also
List of awards and nominations received by Aretha Franklin
Citations
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"Aretha" and "Queen of Soul" redirect here. For other uses, see Aretha (disambiguation) and Queen of Soul (disambiguation).
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.[2] Honored as the "Queen of Soul", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time.[3][4]
As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she was signed as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While her career did not immediately flourish, Franklin found acclaim and commercial success once she signed with Atlantic Records in 1966. She recorded albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit in the Dark (1970), Young, Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976), before experiencing problems with the record company. Franklin left Atlantic in 1979 and signed with Arista Records. Her success continued with the albums Jump to It (1982), Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), Aretha (1986) and A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998).
Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists, with over 75 million records sold worldwide.[5] She recorded 112 charted singles on the US Billboard charts, including 73 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 96 R&B entries[6] and 20 number-one R&B singles. Her best-known hits include "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Ain't No Way", "Call Me", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", "Day Dreaming", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (a duet with George Michael) and "A Rose Is Still a Rose". Aside from music, she appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.
Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career. She won 18 Grammy Awards (out of 44 nominations),[7][8] including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (1968–1975), a Grammy Awards Living Legend honor and Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1987, she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her other inductions include the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012,[9] and posthumously the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.[10] In 2019, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded her a posthumous special citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".
Early life
Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin. She was delivered at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Both Mr. and Mrs. Franklin had children from prior relationships in addition to the four children they had together. When Aretha was two, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York.[13] By the time Aretha turned five, C. L. Franklin had permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of the New Bethel Baptist Church.
The Franklins had a troubled marriage due to Mr. Franklin's infidelities, and they separated in 1948. At that time, Barbara Franklin returned to Buffalo with Aretha's half-brother, Vaughn. After the separation, Aretha recalled seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, and Barbara Franklin frequently visited her children in Detroit. Aretha's mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, before Aretha's 10th birthday. Several women, including Aretha's grandmother, Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson, took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Aretha learned how to play piano by ear. She also attended public school in Detroit, going through her first year at Northern High School, but dropping out during her second year.[21]
Aretha's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in his being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice". He earned thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. His fame led to his home being visited by various celebrities. Among the visitors were gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland, and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke all became friends of C. L. Franklin, as well.[24] Ward was romantically involved with Aretha's father from around 1949 until Ward's death in 1973, though Aretha "preferred to view them strictly as friends". Ward also served as a role model to the young Aretha.[28]
Musical career
1952–1960: Beginnings
Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel Baptist Church, debuting with the hymn "Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me".[29] When Franklin was 12, her father began managing her; he would take her on the road with him, during his "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches. He also helped her sign her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records. Franklin was featured on vocals and piano.[31] In 1956, J.V.B. released Franklin's first single, "Never Grow Old", backed with "You Grow Closer". "Precious Lord (Part One)" backed with "Precious Lord (Part Two)" followed in 1959. These four tracks, with the addition of "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", were released on side one of the 1956 album, Spirituals. This was reissued by Battle Records in 1962, under the same title.[32] In 1965, Checker Records released Songs of Faith, featuring the five tracks from the 1956 Spirituals album, with the addition of four previously unreleased recordings. Aretha was only 14 when Songs of Faith was recorded.[33]
During this time, Franklin would occasionally travel with the Soul Stirrers. As a young gospel singer, Franklin spent summers on the gospel circuit in Chicago and stayed with Mavis Staples' family.[35] According to music producer Quincy Jones, while Franklin was still young, Dinah Washington let him know that "Aretha was the 'next one'".[36] Franklin and her father traveled to California, where she met singer Sam Cooke. At the age of 16, Franklin went on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and she would ultimately sing at his funeral in 1968.[38] Other influences in her youth included Marvin Gaye (who was a boyfriend of her sister), as well as Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, "two of Franklin's greatest influences".[39] Also important was James Cleveland, known as the King of Gospel music, "who helped to focus her early career as a gospel singer"; Cleveland had been recruited by her father as a pianist for the Southern California Community Choir.[40][41]
1960–1966: Columbia years
After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke in recording pop music, and moved to New York. Serving as her manager, C. L. Franklin agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960, as a "five-percent artist". During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to sign her with his label, RCA Victor, but she had already decided to go with Columbia.[33] Berry Gordy had also asked Franklin and her elder sister Erma to sign with his Tamla label, but C.L. Franklin turned Gordy down, as he felt Tamla was not yet an established label.[43] Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sing the Blues",[44] was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top 10 of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart.[45]
In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, "Won't Be Long", which also peaked at number 7 on the R&B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her performing in diverse genres, such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first with her hit-single rendition of the standard "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody".[47] By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a "new-star female vocalist" in DownBeat magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin,[49][50] the latter of which reached number 69 on the Billboard chart.[51]
In the 1960s, during a performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, WVON radio personality Pervis Spann announced that Franklin should be crowned "the Queen of Soul".[52][35] Spann ceremonially placed a crown on her head.[53] By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top 10 on the R&B chart with the ballad "Runnin' Out of Fools", in early 1965. She had two R&B charted singles in 1965 and 1966, with the songs "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", while also reaching the Easy Listening charts with the ballads "You Made Me Love You" and "(No, No) I'm Losing You". By the mid-1960s, Franklin was making $100,000 per year from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, she appeared on rock-and-roll shows, such as Hollywood a Go-Go and Shindig! However, she struggled with commercial success while at Columbia. Label executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her period there.[44]
1966–1979: Atlantic years
In November 1966, Franklin's Columbia recording contract expired; at that time, she owed the company money because record sales had not met expectations.[54] Producer Jerry Wexler convinced her to move to Atlantic Records.[55][56] Wexler decided that he wanted to take advantage of her gospel background; his philosophy in general was to encourage a "tenacious form of rhythm & blues that became increasingly identified as soul".[41] The Atlantic days would lead to a series of hits for Aretha Franklin from 1967 to early 1972; her rapport with Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of her peak recordings with Atlantic. The next seven years' achievements were less impressive. However, according to Rolling Stone, "they weren't as terrible as some claimed, they were pro forma and never reached for new heights".[57]
In January 1967, Franklin traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record at FAME Studios and recorded the song "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Franklin only spent one day recording at FAME, as an altercation broke out between her manager and husband Ted White, studio owner Rick Hall, and a horn player, and sessions were abandoned.[44][58] The song was released the following month and reached number one on the R&B chart, while also peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top-ten pop single. The song's B-side, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", reached the R&B top 40, peaking at number 37. "Respect" was Otis Redding's song but Aretha modified it with a "supercharged interlude featuring the emphatic spelling-out of the song's title".[40] Her frenetic version was released in April and reached number one on both the R&B and pop charts. "Respect" became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem.[44][59] Upon hearing her version, Otis Redding said admiringly: "That little girl done took my song away from me."[60] Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. According to National Geographic, this recording "would catapult Franklin to fame".[57] Franklin scored two additional top-ten singles in 1967, "Baby I Love You" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".[61]
Working with Wexler and Atlantic, Franklin had become "the most successful singer in the nation" by 1968.[62] In 1968, Franklin issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of her most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.[63] On February 16, Franklin was honored with a day named for her and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King Jr., who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians two months before his death. Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in late April/May 1968, including an appearance at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam,[67] where she played to a near-hysterical audience who covered the stage with flower petals.[68] She performed two concerts in London, at the Finsbury Park Astoria and the Hammersmith Odeon on May 11 and May 12.[69] In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine in a portrait illustration by Boris Chaliapin.[70]
In March 1969, Franklin was unanimously voted winner of Académie du Jazz's R&B award, Prix Otis Redding, for her albums Lady Soul, Aretha Now, and Aretha in Paris.[71] That year, Franklin was the subject of a criminal impersonation scheme. Another woman performed at several Florida venues under the name Aretha Franklin. Suspicion was drawn when the fake Franklin charged only a fraction of the expected rate to perform. Franklin's lawyers contacted Florida authorities and uncovered a coercive scheme in which the singer, Vickie Jones, had been threatened with violence and constrained into impersonating her idol, whom she resembled closely both in voice and looks.[72] After being cleared of wrongdoing, Jones subsequently enjoyed a brief career of her own, during which she was herself the subject of an impersonation.
Franklin's success further expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded the multi-week R&B number one "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", as well as the top-ten singles "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady", and "Day Dreaming". Some of these releases were from the acclaimed albums Spirit in the Dark (released in August 1970, in which month she again performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon)[73] and Young, Gifted and Black (released in early 1972). In 1971, Franklin became the first R&B performer to headline Fillmore West, later that year releasing the live album Aretha Live at Fillmore West.[74]
In January 1972, she returned to Gospel music in a two-night, live-church recording, with the album Amazing Grace, in which she reinterpreted standards such as Mahalia Jackson's "How I Got Over".[75] Originally released in June 1972, Amazing Grace sold more than two million copies,[76] and is one of bestselling gospel albums of all time.[77] The live performances were filmed for a concert film directed by Sydney Pollack, but due to synching problems and Franklin's own attempts to prevent the film's distribution after Hollywood refused to promote a dark-skinned black woman as a movie star at the time, the film's release was only realized by producer Alan Elliott in November 2018.[78]
Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album Hey Now Hey, which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single "Angel", the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having R&B success with songs such as "Until You Come Back to Me" and "I'm in Love", but by 1975 her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. Records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film Sparkle with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top-40 hit of the decade, "Something He Can Feel", which also peaked at number one on the R&B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic, including Sweet Passion (1977), Almighty Fire (1978) and La Diva (1979), bombed on the charts, and in 1979 Franklin left the company.[79] On November 7, 1979, she guested The Mike Douglas Show with her yellow costume from her La Diva album, and sang "Ladies Only", "What If I Should Ever Need You" and "Yesterday" by the Beatles.[80]
1980–2007: Arista years
In 1980, after leaving Atlantic Records,[81] Franklin signed with Clive Davis's Arista Records.[82] "Davis was beguiling and had the golden touch", according to Rolling Stone. "If anybody could rejuvenate Franklin's puzzlingly stuck career, it was Davis."[41] Also in 1980, Franklin gave a command performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Franklin also had an acclaimed guest role as a soul food restaurant proprietor and wife of Matt "Guitar" Murphy in the 1980 comedy musical The Blues Brothers.[83][84] Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha (1980), featured the number-three R&B hit "United Together" and her Grammy-nominated cover of Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose". The follow-up, 1981's Love All the Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson, while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'". Franklin achieved a gold record—for the first time in seven years—with the 1982 album Jump to It. The album's title track was her first top-40 single on the pop charts in six years.[85] The following year, she released "Get It Right", produced by Luther Vandross.[86]
In 1985, inspired by a desire to have a "younger sound" in her music, Who's Zoomin' Who? became her first Arista album to be certified platinum. The album sold well over a million copies thanks to the hits "Freeway of Love", the title track, and "Another Night".[87] The next year's Aretha album nearly matched this success with the hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Jimmy Lee" and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", her international number-one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the TV shows A Different World and Together.[88] In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's New Bethel church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989.
In 1987, Franklin performed "America the Beautiful" at WWE's Wrestlemania III; one source states that "to this day her WrestleMania III performance might be the most memorable" of the event openers by many artists.[89] After 1988, "Franklin never again had huge hits", according to Rolling Stone.[41] The 1991 album What You See is What You Sweat flopped on the charts. She returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song "A Deeper Love" and returned to the top 40 with the song "Willing to Forgive" in 1994.[90] That recording reached number 26 on the Hot 100 and number five on the R&B chart. In 1989, Franklin filmed a music video for a remake of "Think".[91] In 1990, she sang "I Want to Be Happy", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", and "Someone Else's Eyes" at the MDA Labor Day Telethon.[92][93] In 1995, she was selected to play Aunt Em in the Apollo Theater revival of The Wiz. Franklin's final top 40 single was 1998's "A Rose Is Still a Rose". The album of the same name was released after the single. It sold over 500,000 copies, earning gold certification.[94]
That same year, Franklin received global praise after her 1998 Grammy Awards performance. She had initially been asked to perform in honor of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, in which she appeared with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. That evening, after the show had already begun, another performer, opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti became too ill to perform the aria "Nessun dorma" as planned. The show's producers, desperate to fill the time slot, approached Franklin with their dilemma. She was a friend of Pavarotti and had sung the aria two nights prior at the annual MusiCares event. She asked to hear Pavarotti's rehearsal recording, and after listening, agreed that she could sing it in the tenor range that the orchestra was prepared to play in. Over one billion people worldwide saw the performance, and she received an immediate standing ovation. She would go on to record the selection and perform it live several more times in the years to come. The last time she sang the aria live was for Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015. A small boy was so touched by her performance that he came onto the stage and embraced her while Franklin was still singing.[95][96]
Her final Arista album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful". In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Arista after more than 20 years with the label.[97] To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen in 2007.[98] In February 2006, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit.[99]
2007–2018: Final years
In 2008, Franklin issued the holiday album This Christmas, Aretha on DMI Records.[100] On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year, and performed "Never Gonna Break My Faith", which had won her the Grammy for best Gospel performance[101] the year before. Twelve years later, an unheard performance of "Never Gonna Break My Faith" was released in June 2020 to commemorate Juneteenth with a new video visualizing the American human rights movement. This caused the song to enter the Billboard gospel charts at number one, giving Franklin the distinction of having had a number one record in every decade since the 1960s. On November 18, 2008, she performed "Respect" and "Chain of Fools" at Dancing with the Stars.
On January 20, 2009, Franklin made international headlines for performing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University.[99] In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love.
In 2014, Franklin was signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and worked with Clive Davis. There were plans for her to record an album produced by Danger Mouse, who was replaced with Babyface and Don Was when Danger Mouse left the project.[102] On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Cissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of "Rolling in the Deep" was featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released in October 2014.[103] In doing so, she became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which debuted at number 47 on the chart.[104]
In December 2015, Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King, who co-wrote the song.[105][106][107] During the bridge of the song, Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation.[108][109] Dropping the coat was symbolic according to "Rolling Stone": it "echoed back to those times when gospel queens would toss their furs on top of the coffins of other gospel queens — a gesture that honored the dead but castigated death itself".[41]
She returned to Detroit's Ford Field on Thanksgiving Day 2016 to once again perform the national anthem before the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Seated behind the piano, wearing a black fur coat and Lions stocking cap, Franklin gave a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that lasted more than four minutes and featured a host of improvisations.[110] Franklin released the album A Brand New Me in November 2017 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which uses archived recordings from Franklin.[111]
While Franklin canceled some concerts in 2017 for health reasons, and during an outdoor Detroit show, she asked the audience to "keep me in your prayers", she was still garnering highly favorable reviews for her skill and showmanship.[112][113][114] At the Ravinia Festival on September 3, 2017, she gave her last full concert.[115][116] Franklin's final public performance was at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City during Elton John's 25th anniversary gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on November 7, 2017.[117]
Music style and image
According to Richie Unterberger, Franklin was "one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged".[1] She had often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience". Franklin's voice was described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice". She was praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. According to David Remnick, what "distinguishes her is not merely the breadth of her catalog or the cataract force of her vocal instrument; it's her musical intelligence, her way of singing behind the beat, of spraying a wash of notes over a single word or syllable, of constructing, moment by moment, the emotional power of a three-minute song. 'Respect' is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase."[109] Describing Franklin's voice on her first album, Songs of Faith, released in 1956 when she was just 14, Jerry Wexler explained that it "was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hierophant". Critic Randy Lewis assessed her skills as a pianist as "magic" and "inspirational". Musicians and professionals alike such as Elton John, Keith Richards, Carole King, and Clive Davis were fans of her piano performances.[121] In 2015, President Barack Obama wrote the following regarding Franklin:
Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That's why, when she sits down at a piano and sings 'A Natural Woman,' she can move me to tears—the same way that Ray Charles's version of 'America the Beautiful' will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed—because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.[122]
Activism
From her time growing up in the home of a prominent African-American preacher to the end of her life, Franklin was immersed and involved in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights. She provided money for civil rights groups, at times covering payroll, and performed at benefits and protests.[123] When Angela Davis was jailed in 1970, Franklin told Jet: "Angela Davis must go free ... Black people will be free. I've been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I'm going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she's a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people."[123] Her songs "Respect" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" became anthems of these movements for social change.[124][125] Franklin and several other American icons declined to take part in performing at President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration as a mass act of musical protest.[126] Franklin was also a strong supporter of Native American rights.[127] She quietly and without fanfare supported Indigenous peoples' struggles worldwide, and numerous movements that supported Native American and First Nation cultural rights.[127]
Personal life
Franklin moved to New York City from Detroit in the 1960s where she lived until relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino, where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintained a residence there until her death. Following an incident in 1984, she cited a fear of flying that prevented her from traveling overseas; she performed only in North America afterwards.[52] Franklin was Baptist.[128]
Franklin was the mother of four sons. She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. In one of her handwritten wills, discovered in 2019, Franklin revealed that the father was Edward Jordan.[130] On August 31, 1957, at the age of 15, Franklin had a second child fathered by Jordan, named Edward Derone Franklin after his father.[131] Franklin did not like to discuss her early pregnancies with interviewers. Both children took her family name. While Franklin was pursuing her singing career and "hanging out with [friends]", her grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising her children. Franklin would visit them often. Her third child, Ted White Jr., was born to Franklin and her husband Theodore "Ted" White in February 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts.[136] Her youngest son, Kecalf Cunningham, was born in April 1970 and is the child of her road manager Ken Cunningham.[137]
Franklin was married twice. Her first husband was Ted White, whom she married in 1961 at the age of 18.[138][139] She had actually seen White the first time at a party held at her house in 1954. After a contentious marriage that was marred by domestic abuse, Franklin separated from White in 1968 and divorced him in 1969. She married actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978, at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after she returned to Michigan from California and they divorced in 1984.
Franklin's sisters, Erma and Carolyn, were professional musicians and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Her sister Carolyn died in April 1988 from breast cancer and her eldest sister Erma died from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's half-brother Vaughn died in late 2002.[142] Her half-sister, Carol Ellan Kelley (née Jennings; 1940–2019), was C. L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a 12-year-old member of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis where C. L. was pastor.[142] Franklin's father and idol, described as "unorthodox on every level," knowingly preyed on his pre-teen congregants.[143]
Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10, 1979, when her father, C. L., was shot twice at point-blank range in his Detroit home. After six months at Henry Ford Hospital while still in a coma, C. L. was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.
Franklin had a long friendship with Willie Wilkerson, a Vietnam War veteran and Detroit firefighter, who also helped in her work and cared for her when ill.[146] In 2012 she announced plans to marry Wilkerson[147][148] but the engagement was quickly called off.[149] Franklin's music business friends included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, and Cissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Houston sang background on Franklin's hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's young daughter, Whitney Houston, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt (not a godmother as has been occasionally reported) and Whitney often referred to her as "Auntie Ree".[150] Franklin had to cancel plans to perform at Whitney Houston's memorial service on February 18, 2012, due to a leg spasm.[151] Franklin was a registered Democrat.[152][153] While her estate had been estimated at $80 million,[154] according to the New York Times, at her death it was valued at $18 million.[155]
Health
Franklin had weight issues for many years. In 1974, she lost 40 pounds (18 kg) on a very-low-calorie diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade. She again lost weight in the early 1990s, before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. She admitted in 1994 that her smoking was "messing with my voice", but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight "ballooned".
In 2010, Franklin canceled a number of concerts to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying that it would "add 15 to 20 years" to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as had been reported.[162] Franklin added, "I don't have to talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors ... The problem has been resolved". Following the surgery, Franklin lost 85 lbs.; however, she denied that she had undergone weight-loss surgery.[163] On May 19, 2011, Franklin had her comeback show at the Chicago Theatre.[164]
In May 2013, Franklin canceled two performances because of an undisclosed medical treatment.[165] Further concert cancellations followed in the summer[166][167][168] and fall.[169] During a phone interview with the Associated Press in late August 2013, Franklin stated that she had had a "miraculous" recovery from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until her health was at 100%, estimating she was about "85% healed".[170] Franklin later returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel. She launched a multi-city tour in mid-2014, starting with a performance on June 14 in New York at Radio City Music Hall.[171]
In February 2017, Franklin announced in an interview with local Detroit television anchor Evrod Cassimy, that 2017 would be her final year touring.[172] However, she scheduled some 2018 concert dates before canceling them based on her physician's advice.[122]
Death and funeral
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit.[173][174] She was under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson and former husband Glynn Turman visited her on her deathbed.[175] Franklin died at her home on August 16, 2018, aged 76.[176] She was initially thought to have died without a will.[177][178] The cause of death was a malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET),[179][180] which is distinct from the most common form of pancreatic cancer.[181][182] Numerous celebrities in the entertainment industry and politicians paid tribute to Franklin, including former U.S. President Barack Obama who said she "helped define the American experience".[183] Civil rights activist and minister Al Sharpton called her a "civil rights and humanitarian icon".[184]
A memorial service was held at her home church, New Bethel Baptist Church, on August 19.[185] Thousands then paid their respects during the public lying-in-repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.[186] The August 31 Homegoing Service held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, included multiple tributes by celebrities, politicians, friends and family members and was streamed by some news agencies[187] such as Fox News, CNN, The Word Network, BET and MSNBC.[188] Among those who paid tribute to Aretha at the service were Ariana Grande, Bill Clinton, Rev. Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Faith Hill, Fantasia, the Clark Sisters, Ronald Isley, Angie Stone, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Shirley Caesar,[189] Shirma Rouse,[190] Stevie Wonder, Eric Holder, Gladys Knight, Cedric the Entertainer, Tyler Perry, Smokey Robinson, Yolanda Adams, and Rev. Dr. William Barber II.[191][192] At Franklin's request she was eulogized by Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, as he had eulogized her father as well as speaking at other family memorials.[193] Williams's eulogy was criticized for being "a political address that described children being in a home without a father as 'abortion after birth' and said black lives do not matter unless blacks stop killing each other". Franklin's nephew Vaughan complained of Williams: "He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogize her."[194][195] Following a telecast procession up Seven Mile Road, Franklin was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.[196][197]
Legacy and honors
Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King,[200][201][202] and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 by then President George W. Bush. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005,[203] and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015.[204] Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. In 2019 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation "[f]or her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades".[205] Franklin was the first individual woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.[206] At the beginning of her career, Siouxsie Sioux named her as her favourite female singer.[207]
In 2010 Franklin was ranked first on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"[3] and ninth on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[208] Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams.[209] That same year, she was ranked 19th among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists.[210][211]
When Rolling Stone listed the "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" in 2002 and again 2012, it listed Franklin's 1967, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, number one.[212] Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin was described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America".[214] Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014.[215] The next year, Billboard named her the greatest female R&B artist of all time.[216] In 2018, Franklin was inducted in to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
"American history wells up when Aretha sings", President Obama explained in response to her performance of "A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. "Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope."[109] Franklin later recalled the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors as one of the best nights of her life.[109] On June 8, 2017, the City of Detroit honored Franklin's legacy by renaming a portion of Madison Street, between Brush and Witherell Streets, Aretha Franklin Way.[217] The Aretha Franklin Post Office Building was named in 2021, and is located at 12711 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.[218]
Rolling Stone called Franklin "the greatest singer of her generation".[41] In April 2021, Aretha Franklin was featured in National Geographic magazine and in the previous month, the society began airing the third season of the television series Genius about her life and career.[219][220] After working with the artist for nearly four decades, Clive Davis, said that Aretha "understood the essence of both language and melody and was able to take it to a place very few—if any—could". According to National Geographic, "she was a musical genius unmatched in her range, power, and soul".[220]
Honorary degrees
Franklin received honorary degrees from Harvard University and New York University in 2014,[221] as well as honorary doctorates in music from Princeton University, 2012;[222] Yale University, 2010;[223] Brown University, 2009;[224] the University of Pennsylvania, 2007;[225] Berklee College of Music, 2006;[226] the New England Conservatory of Music, 1997;[227] and the University of Michigan, 1987.[228] She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Case Western Reserve University 2011[229] and Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Bethune–Cookman University in 1975.[230]
Tributes
After Franklin's death, fans added unofficial tributes to two New York City Subway stations: the Franklin Street station in Manhattan, served by the 1 train, and the Franklin Avenue station in Brooklyn, served by the C and S trains. Both stations were originally named after other people. Although the fan tributes were later taken down, the subway system's operator, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, placed permanent black-and-white stickers with the word "Respect" next to the "Franklin" name signs in each station.[231][232]
During the American Music Awards on October 9, 2018, the show was closed by bringing Gladys Knight, Donnie McClurkin, Ledisi, Cece Winans, and Mary Mary together to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The "all-star" group performed gospel songs, including renditions from Franklin's 1972 album, Amazing Grace.[233][234]
A tribute concert, "Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul", was organized by CBS and the Recording Academy[235] on January 13, 2019, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The concert included performances by Smokey Robinson, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Alessia Cara, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Hudson, Chloe x Halle, H.E.R., SZA, Brandi Carlile, Yolanda Adams and Shirley Caesar,[236][237] and was recorded for television, airing on March 10.[238][239]
At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, the ceremony was ended with a memorial tribute to the life and career of Franklin. The tribute concluded with a rendition of her 1968 hit, "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)", performed by Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Andra Day and Yolanda Adams.[240]
In June 2023, Aretha – A Love Letter to the Queen of Soul opened at Sydney Opera House before heading to Brisbane and Melbourne. Australian playwright, actor and screenwriter Jada Alberts directed and narrated the musical, which featured Emma Donovan, Montaigne, Thandi Phoenix, Thndo, and Ursula Yovich, along with a nine-piece band.[241]
Portrayals in media
On January 29, 2018, Gary Graff confirmed that Jennifer Hudson would play Franklin in an upcoming biopic.[242] Franklin's biopic Respect was released in August 2021 in various countries.[243][244] On February 10, 2019, it was announced that the subject of the third season of the American National Geographic anthology television series Genius would be Franklin, in the "first-ever, definitive scripted miniseries on the life of the universally acclaimed Queen of Soul".[245] The season, starring Cynthia Erivo as Franklin, was aired in March 2021. However, Franklin's family denounced the series, claiming to be uninvolved with the production process, despite the production team stating that the series had been endorsed by the Franklin estate.[246]
Discography
Main article: Aretha Franklin discography
Studio albums
Filmography
Concerts, Specials, Appearances
1967–1982: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – Guest
1968: Aretha Franklin and The Sweet Inspirations in Concert
1968: The Hollywood Palace – Guest
1969: 41st Academy Awards – Performer
1970: This is Tom Jones – Guest
1970: It's Cliff Richard – Guest – BBC
1970: It's Lulu – Guest – BBC
1978: Dick Clark's Live Wednesday – Guest – ABC
1978: Aretha Franklin Live in Canada – ITV
1978: Kennedy Center Honors – CBS
1981–1985: Solid Gold – Performer – CBS
1982: It's Not Easy Bein' Me – Guest – NBC
1983: American Music Awards of 1983 – Performer/Host – ABC
1983: Midem '83 – Performer – TF1
1985: Soundstage – Performer – PBS
1986: American Music Awards of 1986 – Performer – ABC
1988: James Brown and Friends: Set Fire To The Soul – Performer – HBO
1990: Night of 100 Stars III – Performer – NBC
1991–1992: The Joan Rivers Show – Performer – HBO
1992: 23rd Annual Grammy Awards – Performer – CBS
1992: Kennedy Center Honors -Performer – CBS
1993: Evening at Pops – Performer – PBS
Documentaries
1972: Black Rodeo (documentary)
1990: Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (documentary)
2003: Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (documentary)
2012: The Zen of Bennett (documentary)
2013: Muscle Shoals (documentary)
2018: Amazing Grace (documentary)
As an actress
1972: Room 222 (as Inez Jackson)
1980: The Blues Brothers (as Mrs. Murphy)
1991: Murphy Brown (as Herself)
1997: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (as voice of Homebuilt Computer)
1998: Blues Brothers 2000 (as Mrs. Murphy)
See also
List of awards and nominations received by Aretha Franklin
Citations
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Aretha Franklin's voice awed people all around the country including Nashville, where she first began touring at the beginning of her career, and Jefferson Street was she spent most of her time.
The queen of soul not only spent time in Nashville, but many of her performances during the early 1960s were in clubs on Jefferson Street.
The Del Morocco, Club Baron, and New Era Club are where she spent most of her time.
NewsChannel 5 spoke with the Founder of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum, Lorenzo Washington, who was inside the New Era Club when she performed in Nashville.
Washington was just 19 years old when he watched her perform, but he but knew she had a voice like no other.
Washington learned that she had passed away Thursday morning. He says she's no longer physically here but her music will always live on, especially in Nashville.
"Aretha will never die from the hearts of Nashville. That goes for the whole country but I'm going to specifically say Nashville. That's who I represent," said Washington.
Those clubs are no longer on Jefferson Street.
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