Explore Aretha Franklin's music on Billboard. Get the latest news, biography, and updates on the artist.
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Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."
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 B
about 15 years later, ritz convinced franklin to let him write a more honest biography, 2014’s respect —bolstered by interviews with franklin’s family members and contemporaries like ray charles, billy preston, and luther vandross. (“mr. ritz managed to persuade ms. franklin that if she ...
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Over the years, rumors spread that Barbara Franklin had abandoned her children. However, these allegations were refuted by American singer Aretha Franklin herself and Professor Nick Salvatore of Cornell University in his biography of C.L. Franklin. ...
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But they do trace a vital absence in her life—that of her mother, Barbara Franklin. Franklin’s greatest musical influence and mentor was the gospel singer Clara Ward, who later became her father’s partner and suffered his abuses. (In Ritz’s biography, James Cleveland calls C.L. ...