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- She presented African American music as a repository of ideas—ideas about politics, culture, and being-in-the-world, about love, sex, and romance, and also about the flexibility and force of song.
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Jun 19, 2019 · Aretha Franklin didn’t merely interpret songs. She did whatever she felt she needed to make them her own. Tempos changed, words were added or shed, entire verses ignored.
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This article is about the life and career of Aretha Franklin, an American singer who defined the golden age of soul music in the 1960s. It covers her background as a gospel singer, her switch to secular music at 18 years old, her struggles with Columbia Records before switching to Atlantic Records where she became a hit maker and was crowned "Queen...
Freelance writer and coauthor of Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story and Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music.
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Detailed summary of the life, work, achievements, influence on soul music by singer Aretha Franklin.
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Aug 28, 2018 · With her powerhouse voice, Aretha Franklin could make any song an event. Here’s how five of her songs made history.
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)", "S...
Sep 4, 2018 · Aretha was a “multimusical” album-oriented artist with a highly identifiable sound and approach and had what a 1970s fan called “the genius of combining all forms of black culture into music.”
Jan 8, 2021 · Despite the tone of the first rendition, Franklin took the song and flipped it on its head, turning it into one of the most powerful songs of a generation. The original song had 'masculine...
Aug 16, 2018 · The 50 Greatest Aretha Franklin Songs. Essential moments from pop music's greatest voice. By. David Browne, Elias Leight, Brittany Spanos, Mosi Reeves, Richard Gehr, Maura Johnston, Joe Levy,...
