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Bold text Error creating thumbnail: Unable to create destination directory This article needs additional citations for verification. Aretha Franklin File:Aretha Franklin on January 20, 2009. jpgFranklin performing at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009Background informationBirth name Aretha Louise FranklinBorn Template:Safesubst:March 25, 1942 (1942-03-25) (age 70)Template:Safesubst:Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Died Template:Safesubst:Template:Safesubst:Occupations Singer, songwriter, pianistYears active 1956–present Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect". After she \broke her leg... a brief lull in 1969, Franklin continued to record a string of popular singles throughout the early 1970s, reaching her peak as an albums artist with 1970's Spirit in the Dark, 1971's Young, Gifted & Black and the 1972 gospel record, Amazing Grace, which became the best-selling pure gospel album of all time. Franklin's success in Atlantic peaked after the release of the singles, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "I'm in Love" and "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and the 1976 soundtrack to the movie, Sparkle and Franklin left the label in 1980 to sign with Clive Davis' Arista Records label where she switched over from soul and funk music to a more conservative urban adult contemporary sound in the albums, Aretha and Love All the Hurt Away, before regaining commercial success with the 1982 Gold album, Jump to It, produced by R&B hitmaker Luther Vandross. In 1984, Franklin added modern day pop rock and dance elements to her sound, which was integral to the success of her 1985 Platinum album, Who's Zoomin' Who?, which spawned the hits "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who" and the Eurythmics members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart featured "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves". The 1986 release, Aretha, featured her seventeenth Top 10 single - a #1 duet with George Michael entitled "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me". Afterwards Aretha did not return to the Gold standard until the release of 1998's A Rose Is Still a Rose, which incorporated modern day contemporary R&B and which the title track returned Franklin to the top 40 of the pop charts. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list, as well as the ninth greatest artist of all time. She has won a total of 20 career Grammy Awards, including two honorary Grammys, and she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On August 14, 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
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Discography
- Live at Fillmore West, 1985
- Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live at Fillmore West: Don't Fight the Feeling, 2005
- I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, 2001
- Spirit in the Dark, 1993
- A Rose Is Still a Rose, 1998
- Aretha in Paris, 1994
- The Delta Meets Detroit: Aretha's Blues, 1998
- The Great American Songbook, 2011
- Aretha's Gold, 1990
- Lady Soul, 1998
- Soft and Beautiful, 1969
- Get It Right, 2012
- Greatest Hits (1980-1994), 1996
- Live at Fillmore West-Don't Fight the Feeling, 2005
- Soul '69, 1969
- Aretha, 1980
- Amazing Grace, 1972
- So Damn Happy, 2003
- Save Me
- This Christmas, 2008
- The Electrifying Aretha Franklin, 1962
- Aretha & Otis, 2002
- You, 1975
- The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, Volume 1
- Love Songs
- Aretha Sings the Blues, 1987
- One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (disc 2)
- Aretha's Greatest Hits, 1973
- The Queen of Soul
- Jump to It, 2012
- Day Dreaming, 2007
- Aretha Now, 1968
- Take A Look: Aretha Franklin on Columbia, 2011
- The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The '60s, 1994
- Aretha's Jazz, 1984
- Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs, 2008
- Through the Storm, 1989
- 19 Grandes Exitos
- Experience
- The Best of Aretha Franklin, 1984
- Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-1998, 2012
- Aretha Arrives, 1993
- One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
- Soul Sister: The Classic Aretha Franklin, 1998
- Jazz to Soul
- Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings, 1999
- Tutto Aretha: A Natural Woman, 2006
- Young, Gifted and Black, 1972
- 30 Greatest Hits, 1986
- This Girl's in Love With You, 1970
- Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets With the Queen, 2007
- Greatest Hits, 2000
- Respect
- Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits 1960-65
- Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), 1994
- Aretha Queen of Soul (The Very Best Of)
- A Woman Falling Out of Love, 2011
- Respect (And Other Hits), 2006
- The Very Best of Aretha - Queen of Soul
- Sparkle, 1976
- The Early Years
- A Natural Woman and Other Hits
- Hall of Fame
- The Very Best of Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding Together, 2012
- Original Recordings
- Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings, 1992
- The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The '70s
- Sunday Morning Classics, 2009
- Under Her Spell, 2002
- Queen of Soul
- Who's Zoomin' Who?, 1990
- Aretha Franklin, 2009
- The Very Best of Aretha Franklin
- 100 Hits Legends: Aretha Franklin, 2010
- 30 Greatest Hits (disc 1), 1986
- Lady Soul & Aretha Now (Gold Disc), 1995
- Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, 1995
- Respect: The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, 2002
- Gospel Greats, 1999
- Two Classic Albums From Aretha Franklin: The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging / Soft and Beautiful
- The King and Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin (disc 2)
- A Bit of Soul
- The Collection
- Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, 1985
- Legends of Soul: The Very Best of Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding, 2005
- Let Me In Your Life, 1974
- Respect & Other Hits
- With Everything I Feel in Me, 1974
- Aretha Franklin Sings Standards
- Aretha's Best, 2001
- Love All the Hurt Away, 1981
- Le Meilleur d'Aretha Franklin
- What You See Is What You Sweat, 1991
- The Age of Aretha
- Sweet Bitter Love, 1970
- 1 heure avec Aretha Franklin (Yeah !!! In person with her quartet The first 12 sides)
- The Queen in Waiting, 2002
- 20 Greatest Hits, 1987
- What a Difference a Day Makes
- The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging, 1962
- Soul Sister, 1966
- Gospel Roots
- Precious Lord, 2006
- This Is Jazz 34
- Collection (disc 2), 2006
- The Very Best of Arehta Franklin
- Platinum & Gold Collection
- The First 12 Sides, 1972
- United Together: Greatest Hits 80's & 90's, 2002
- The Great Aretha Franklin (disc 3)
- Rare & Unreleased Recordings From the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul, 2007
- Spanish Harlem, 1998
- Chain of Fools, 1993
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| Song | Back To Living Again |
| Artist | Aretha Franklin |
| Album | New World Order |
| Label | Warners |
| Year | 1996 |

| Song | Oh Happy Day |
| Artist | Aretha Franklin |
| Album | One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism |
| Label | Arista/BMG |
| Year | 1987 |

| Song | Freeway Of Love |
| Artist | Aretha Franklin |
| Album | Who's Zoomin' Who? |
| Label | SMTV/Shock |
| Year | 1985 |

| Song | Chain Of Fools |
| Artist | Aretha Franklin |
| Album | Theme Time Radio Hour |
| Label | Ace/Shock |
| Year | 1967 |

| Song | (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman |
| Artist | Aretha Franklin |
| Album | Lady Soul |
| Label | Atlantic |
| Year | 1968 |
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