Barack Obama said via Twitter:
Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace. pic.twitter.com/bfASqKlLc5
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) 16. August 2018
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There is nothing more to add … but some of her great music.
Long live Aretha Franklin!
First of all, feel free to listen to her very first, still quite jazzy album (if you click on the title, you will find the complete list of personnel).
ARETHA FRANKLIN with the RAY BRYANT COMBO – ARETHA – 1961
Won’t Be Long
Over The Rainbow
Love Is The Only Thing
Sweet Lover
All Night Long
Who Needs You?
Right Now
Are You Sure
Maybe I’m A Fool
It Ain’t Necessarily So
(Blue) By Myself
Today I Sing The Blues
The rest is history.
Read the obituary in the New York Times; and there is of course a lot to dig up on the world wide web.
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