# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aretha-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:08.780Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/aretha-franklin"
name: "Aretha Franklin"
slug: "aretha-franklin"
description: "Rolling Stone called her the greatest singer of all time — twice. She turned \"Respect\" into a demand the whole country heard, and every line she sang carried the full weight of the Black church and a voice no one could touch."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aretha_Franklin_1968.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-03-25"
deathDate: "2018-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  171
  category: 157
totalFollowers: 82500
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    handle:    "arethafranklin"
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    handle:    "ArethaFranklin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  She grew up singing gospel at her father's Detroit church, where the power in her voice was clear before she was out of childhood. Columbia Records signed her at 18, but the breakthrough didn't come until she moved to Atlantic in 1966 and cut I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Lady Soul, and Aretha Now in quick succession. The late '60s and '70s brought Young, Gifted and Black, the live gospel record Amazing Grace, and 112 singles on the Billboard charts — 20 of them number-one R&B hits. After friction with Atlantic she jumped to Arista in 1979 and staged a second act with Jump to It and Who's Zoomin' Who?. She won 18 Grammys, became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and sold more than 75 million records before she died in Detroit in August 2018.