Aretha Franklin
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 evolved from teenage gospel star to reigning pop and R&B diva, recording classics like “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain Of Fools”, “Think” (lyrics by Aretha Franklin), definitive versions of the songs “Respect” and “I Say a Little Prayer”, and global hits like “Freeway Of Love,” “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”, and “A Rose Is Still A Rose.”
Altogether, 112 of her singles reached the charts, with 20 No. 1 R&B singles, the most ever by a female artist. She won 18 Grammy Awards (including the first eight trophies for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance) and, out of recognition for her for indelible contribution to American music and culture, received both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Pulitzer Prize.
Aretha Franklin
“There’s nothing like the music and the audience...you can go to the concert feeling really down and they can bring you up. They appreciate you so much that they can bring you right out of that.” - Aretha Franklin
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"I try not to look back, only ahead. I often remember how beautiful, and seldom, how bad. Yes, I know the bad is there to be looked at and learned from. Well, I have. Now it is where it belongs...in the past. There is nothing in my life today that I would change, nothing that has not contained some good. My life is not filled with regrets or revenge." -Aretha Franklin
Words of wisdom from the Queen to start a new year.
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54 years ago this month, Aretha blew the audience away with her legendary performance at the New York Philharmonic Hall. What is your favorite Aretha performance? 🎤
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What's your favorite Aretha heartbreak song? 💔
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And where were you? Let's hear your stories!
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"When I first heard Aretha sing... it's just something that she has, and the way she makes me people feel... is what I wanted to have... I said, 'If I could ever be a singer, that's the way I'd want to make people feel. I want to have that kind of gut feeling, where I could make myself feel good, and make everybody else feel good." - Whitney Houston, 1986 ❤️
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Happy birthday to our beloved Queen of Soul 👑❤️!!
Photo credit: Walter Iooss
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Written by her sister, Carolyn Franklin, Aretha recorded “Ain’t No Way” and released it on LADY SOUL. Listen to this track on @YoutubeMusic’s R&B Diva Classics now: lnk.to/rnbdivaclassics/youtubemusic
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me! 👑 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2020
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