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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 04:03:15 -0500
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Subject: 0325 - Today in Black History - March 25
1942 - Aretha Louise Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. After the age
of 6, she will be raised by her father, the Reverend C. L.
Franklin, one of the most famous black ministers in the North, and
her aunt, the legendary gospel singer Clara Ward. She will grow up
singing in her father's New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit,
Michigan. Family friends Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke will
encourage her recording career, and when Columbia Records producer
John Hammond first hears the 18-year-old, he calls her "an
untutored genius, the best natural singer since Billie Holiday."
It will not be until her move from Columbia's pop/jazz
orchestrations to Atlantic Records' soulful, Rhythm and Blues
style, in 1966, that her career skyrockets. Under the auspices of
Jerry Wexler, she will sing fierce, frantic hits like "I Never
Loved a Man," "Respect," "Natural Woman," and "Chain of Fools." In
1968, she will make the cover of Time magazine. From her first
singing experiences in her father's church through a singing career
and 21 gold records, she will earn the title, "Queen of Soul." She
will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
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