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(1942-2018)

Who Was Aretha Franklin?

A gifted singer and pianist, Aretha Franklin toured with her father's traveling revival show and later visited New York, where she signed with Columbia Records.

Franklin went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics.

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Thousands of people lined up outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit for Aretha Franklin's visitation.

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Aretha Franklin was born in a segregated town in Tennessee, but died at age 76 as the undisputed 'Queen of Soul.' Tom Walters reports.

In 1987 she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2008 she won her 18th Grammy Award, making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.

Early Life and Career

The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C.

L." Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer.

Franklin's parents separated by the time she was six, and four years later her mother succumbed to a heart attack. Guided by C. L.'s preaching assignments, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan.

C. L. eventually landed at Ne