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Aug 19, 2018 · The album went back to Franklin's roots in gospel music, though, as she often said, she never left the church. It's the Queen of Soul at her peak, and it's still one of the best-selling...
Apr 17, 2024 · Aretha most certainly brought her Gospel roots into secular R&B, thus helping create her own style which is known as “Soul Music”, she is also one of the finest songwriters of all time as well as one of finest pianists in Gospel today. Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018 at the age of 76. Although born in soul’s capital city, Memphis.
- Defining Songs
- We Look at Music as ‘Before’ and ‘After’ Franklin
- Queen of Soul
- That Voice
- Presence and Power
- ‘Sharing Her Soul with The World’
“Respect” (1967) “In today’s society, I would say ‘Respect.’ We need to respect ourselves, respect one another and … that is very important to me today.” — Larry Griffin, Ohio Wesleyan professor and trumpeter “Day Dreaming” (1972) “It’s a love song and about longing, but also imagination and pleasure. It’s about imagining a time when you can be in ...
The gold standard, unparalleled, the soundtrack of the nation — these are the ways music critics and those who knew Franklin describe her extraordinary voice and style.
Franklin changed popular music forever. There is American music “before Aretha Franklin and after,” said Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine’s pop critic and a University of Virginia assistant professor. Since Franklin first learned to sing in church, that influence could always be heard in her songs, although she was never constrained by it. She blended...
“Her voice was filled with a soul, a sadness, a gravitas that is uniquely hers,” said David Ritz, author of her biography, “Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.” The world had not heard a voice like Franklin’s — one that felt so modern, and captured the range of emotions felt by the country, especially during the political, cultural and racial uph...
Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis can’t even remember the first time she heard one of Franklin’s songs. Her music became a constant in the household when her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Ethiopia in the 1980s. “The family watched the VH1 Divas 1998 on VHS,” Giorgis said. “I remember all of us being sad when we switched over to DVDs like, ...
Larry Griffin played trumpet in Franklin’s band at her last performance. It was Nov. 7, 2017, at a gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of Elton John’s AIDS foundation. He and other band members had heard rumors that Franklin was sick. He watched as she prepared to go on stage. She looked like she had lost weight and was tired. Then, the lights tu...
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Apr 9, 2024 · Franklin greatly influenced his daughter, Aretha Franklin, who sang in his church as a young girl and would eventually also make her mark on gospel.
She had that authentic deep gospel sound that was rooted in her from the church,” Ausberry said. “She sang in the church choir up to the age of 9 and from the age of 9 to 18 she recorded gospel music. Then at around 18 she began to record secular music, but never forgetting her gospel roots.”.
Oct 23, 2020 · While Aretha was looking to the late great Queen of Gospel Mahalia Jackson as her musical influence (and also being mentored by Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of...
Feb 13, 2024 · That is Aretha Franklin singing Climbing Higher Mountains from her gospel album, Amazing Grace. Like many of America's greatest musicians, Aretha grew up in the church, and we hear from Aretha Franklin and many others in a new PBS documentary about the history and culture of gospel.
