Published 4 months ago

Did God create Aretha Franklin?

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Aretha Franklin was 29 and already a star when she decided to go back to her roots and the gospel music she was brought up on in Detroit. The sessions would be recorded for an album and a film to be directed by Sydney Pollack. But due to problems in the recording and the artist's personal objections, the movie did not see the light until 2018, almost half a century later.

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Did God create Aretha Franklin?

It was not her usual repertoire, but she gave the performance of her life. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin was 29 and already a star when she decided to go back to her roots and the gospel music she was brought up on in Detroit by her parents, Baptist pastor and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin and singer and pianist Barbara Siggers Franklin. Aretha returned despite childhood trauma: her mother left home when Aretha was six and died when she…

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