Thursday, 16 August 2018

Unlabelled Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,' dies at 76

Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,' dies at 76

by Crime Time Tamil on August 16, 2018

Ironic that the King and Queen both died on August 16.

A sad day indeed.

Mary

Live long and prosper

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From: CJ cindyjovanoski@yahoo.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics] <Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com>
To: Reality-TV-Fanatics <Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,' dies at 76

She will be dearly missed and today is the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death
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On Thu, 8/16/18, Mary Landers maryeland@aol.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics] <Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,' dies at 76
To: Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018, 10:43 AM

Very sad
news

Mary

Live long and prosper

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From: C G ceegee2006@yahoo.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics]
<Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Thu, Aug 16, 2018 9:36 am

Subject: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Aretha Franklin, the Queen of
Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,' dies at
76

Now
at peace and 76? That is not old. Darn

I
really like this song/ And several others

YOU
MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN

cg
Aretha
Franklin, the Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all
time,' dies at 76

Lyndsey
Parker 29 minutes ago

Aretha Franklin, the
Queen of Soul and 'greatest singer of all time,'
dies at 76

Lyndsey
Parker 29 minutes ago

Aretha Franklin performs at the Elton John AIDS
Foundation event in New York in November 2017. (Photo:
Dimitrios Kambouris/AFP)

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed
Queen of Soul, died Thursday at her Detroit home, the
Associated Press reports, surrounded by family and friends.
She had been battling various
undisclosed illnesses for years, and, in recent weeks, was
receiving hospice care. Franklin was 76.

As
news of her declining health spread over the past few days,
visitors including Stevie Wonder and the Rev. Jesse Jackson
reportedly paid their respects at her bedside.. Beyoncé and Jay-Z dedicated their Monday concert in the Motor
City to Franklin, declaring the iconic
singer. "We
love you," Beyoncé said, adding a word of thanks for
"the beautiful music."

Over
the course of her nearly seven-decade career, Franklin
established herself as one of the most important artists in
music history, winning 18 Grammy Awards, selling more than
75 million records worldwide, becoming the first female
performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, and recording 112 charted singles on Billboard,
thus setting the record for the most charted female artist
in the trade magazine's history.

Read more: Aretha's life in
photos

Franklin's
other accolades during her lifetime included three American
Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, three NAACP Image
Awards, one Golden Globe, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Grammy Legend Award
and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center
Honor, being named 2008's MusiCares Person of the Year,
and honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown,
and the Berklee College of Music. She performed at Martin
Luther King's memorial service and at the inaugurations of
three presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack
Obama.

In
2010, Franklin's commanding mezzo-soprano voice earned her
the No. 1 spot on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of
All Time." Contributing to that issue, admirer
Mary J. Blige wrote, "You know a force from
heaven. You know something that God made. And Aretha is a
gift from God. When it comes to expressing yourself through
song, there is no one who can touch her. She is the reason
why women want to sing. Aretha has everything — the power,
the technique. She is honest with everything she
says."

Read more: Aretha Franklin's iconic style
and beauty looks

Franklin
was born in Memphis on March 25, 1942. Her family moved to
Detroit when she was 5 years old, and her mother, Barbara,
died shortly before Franklin's 10th birthday. Her father,
Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin, was a famous
preacher at Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church, and his
home was subsequently frequented by celebrity guests like
Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, and
Mahalia Jackson, the latter of whom pitched in helping to
raise Aretha and her siblings after Barbara's death. It
was around that time that a young Franklin began singing
solos at New Bethel.

Franklin
was a mother of two by the time she was 14 years old, giving
birth to her first son, Clarence, when she was 12, and
welcoming a second son, Edward, two years later. (She gave
birth to two other sons, Teddy Richards and Kecalf
Cunningham, in 1964 and 1970.) However, young motherhood did
not stop Franklin from launching her professional career as
a gospel singer at age 14. Managed by her father and signed
to J.V.B. Records, she released her first album, Songs
of Faith, in 1956. When she turned 18, she shifted to
secular music, recording for Columbia Records and charting a
few singles on the R&B and pop charts, but major
mainstream success mostly eluded her.

It
was only after Franklin signed to Atlantic Records in 1967
that she had her big breakthrough. In February of that year,
Atlantic released "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love
You)," recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala.;
the song became her first top 10 Billboard
hit. Two months later, she followed up with her famous cover
of Otis Redding's "Respect," which went to No. 1 on
both the R&B and pop charts. Her first album for
Atlantic, I
Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, soon went
gold.

She
capped her amazing 1967 run with the September release of
another signature song, her cover of Carole King and Gerry
Goffin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,"
which became another Top 10 hit. By the following year,
Franklin had won her first two Grammys and graced the cover
of Time
magazine.

Franklin
continued to chart during the early '70s with Spirit
in the Dark, Young,
Gifted and Black, and the double-platinum gospel LP Amazing
Grace, the most successful album in her discography.
Her career began to stall in the late '70s, but she
experienced an upswing after delivering an iconic
performance in The
Blues Brothers movie and leaving Atlantic to sign with
Clive Davis's Arista Records. She then made a successful
crossover to MTV in the '80s. Her 1985 album, Who's
Zoomin' Who?, went platinum on the strength of the
hits "Freeway of Love," the Eurythmics collaboration
"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves," and the title
track; her 1986 duet with George Michael, "I Knew You Were
Waiting for Me," went to No. 1 in eight countries.

After
keeping a lower chart profile in the early '90s. Franklin
experienced another career comeback in 1998 with the
gold-selling A
Rose Is Still a Rose (the title track of which was
produced by Lauryn Hill) and with her spectacular "Nessun
Dorma" performance at that year's Grammy Awards, filling
in at the last minute for the ailing Luciano Pavarotti; that
performance is still widely considered to be one of the
greatest Grammy moments of all time.. Franklin also
participated in the first VH1
Divas special that year.

Other
historic TV performances Franklin delivered in more recent
years included "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Aaron
Neville and Dr. John at Super Bowl XL in 2006, "My Country
'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inauguration
ceremony in 2009, a medley of Adele's "Rolling in the
Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on The
Late Show With David Letterman in 2014, and "(You
Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," for honoree Carole
King, at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.

In
2010, Franklin canceled several concerts while recovering
from an operation to remove a tumor. (Franklin denied
reports that her "unspecified illness" was pancreatic
cancer.) Over the years she returned to performing
sporadically, but she still dropped out of many shows,
including her birthday concert this year at the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center and 2018 appearances at the New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Toronto Jazz
Festival.

In
February 2017, Franklin told Detroit TV station WDIV that
she planned to make one more album, with several tracks
produced by her old friend Stevie Wonder, before officially
retiring to spend more time with her grandchildren —
though she hoped to open a nightclub in
Detroit where she could occasionally perform.
That album has yet to materialize, though in November 2017
she released A
Brand New Me, a collection of archival Atlantic Records
vocal recordings set to new orchestral arrangements by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. (Another compilation from that
era, The
Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970, is due out Sept.
28.)

Franklin
gave her final performance on Nov. 7, 2017, at Elton
John's 25th anniversary gala for the Elton John AIDS
Foundation in New York City, at which John declared Franklin
the "greatest singer of all time." However, Franklin's
last public
concert took place several months earlier, on Aug. 26, at
the Mann Center in Philadelphia. A review of that show in the Philadelphia
Inquirer said, "Regardless of advancing
years and medical setbacks, Franklin seemed largely
undiminished in voice or spirit, even if her exclamations
sometimes soared past the limits of her breath. … The
extended coda of '(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural
Woman' was a showstopper, reminding the enthralled
audience that even if she couldn't quite ascend to the
heights of her younger days, Franklin had a gift that was
more about wringing profound emotion from a lyric than about
vocal gymnastics."

Still,
perhaps it was Barack Obama who summed up Franklin's
legacy best, when he beautifully stated in an email to The New Yorker in
2016: "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. … 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."

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