Aretha Franklin
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942-2018) · United States · Musicians · Died at 76
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Something wrong?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.
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A Brand New MeAlbum2014
Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva ClassicsAlbum2010Honorary Doctor of Yale UniversityAward2008
This ChristmasAlbum2007Grammy Award for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music PerformanceAward2003Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B PerformanceAward
So Damn HappyAlbum, 20031999National Medal of ArtsAward1997Grammy Hall of FameAward1996Only a LookAlbum1993Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1991
What You See Is What You SweatAlbum1988
Jump to ItAlbum1987Rock and Roll Hall of FameAward1986American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female ArtistAward1985
Who's Zoomin' Who?Album1983American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B AlbumAward1981
Love All the Hurt AwayAlbum1979La DivaAlbum1977Sweet PassionAlbum1976American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female ArtistAward1975
YouAlbum1973
Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)Album1972Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel PerformanceAward1970Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal PerformanceAward1967Grammy Award for Best R&B PerformanceAward1942Born25 March 1942Also in Deutsch
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Aretha Franklin, The Gospel Tradition In Performance at the White House, 2015 (cut)
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TRThe Electrifying (Remastered)
AMA Brand New Me
ACAretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics
TCThis Christmas
SHSo Damn Happy
ARA Rose Is Still a Rose
WSWhat You See Is What You Sweat
JIJump to It
WWWho's Zoomin' Who?
GRGet It Right
LALove All the Hurt Away
YOYou
LLLet Me in Your Life
HSHey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)Awards
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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.
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