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Aretha Franklin. Actress: The Blues Brothers. Grammy-winning Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Vernice (Siggers) and C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, who preached at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit for over thirty years.
An icon of 20th and 21st century music, the voice of the civil rights movement, and the undisputed Queen of Soul—there is only one Aretha Franklin. In her incredible six-decade career, Aretha ...
Aug 16, 2018 · 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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May 24, 2006 · Aretha Franklin and civil rights. In these early years Franklin was viewed as a potent symbol of black advancement. She often lent her talents to the civil rights cause, and performed publicly in ...
Aretha Franklin was only twenty-five when she clinched the title of Lady Soul with her unforgettably proud, sexy, candid and confident 1967 version of Otis Redding’s “Respect.”
Aretha Louise Franklin (født 25. marts 1942, død 16. august 2018) [1] var en amerikansk sangerinde.Hun blev født i byen Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Hun var kendt for sin soul-stemme, og mange kaldte hende for "The Queen Of Soul".
