Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist. She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. She died of a heart attack on March 7, 2018, at the age of 76.
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Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist. She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2020, she will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She died of a heart attack on March 7, 2018, at the age of 76. She is survived by her daughter, two sons, two daughters, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Her estate is worth an estimated $1.5 billion. Her funeral was held on March 25, 2018. She has been interred at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. She also has a private funeral home in New York City, where she is buried with her husband, C.L. L. Franklin, and two of their children. She had four children with her first husband, Clarence LaVaughn “Clarence” Franklin, who was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher from Shelby, Mississippi. Her mother, Barbara Franklin, was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Aretha’s grandmother, Rachel Mahalia Jackson, took turns taking turns with the children at the Franklin’s home in Buffalo, New York, during the summer. She later moved to Detroit and took over the pastorship of the New Bethel Baptist Church.
In 1998, Franklin returned to the Top 40 with the Lauryn Hill-produced song \”A Rose Is Still a Rose\”; later, she released an album of the same name which was certified gold. Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R-B entries, and 20 number-one R&b singles. She appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers before releasing the successful albums Jump to It, Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, and Aretha on the Arista label. In 1987, she became the first female performer to be inducting into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her number one on its list of the \”100 Greatest Singers of All Time\” and number nine on its List of the 100 Greatest Artists of All time. In 2019, the Pulitzer Prize jury in 2019 awarded Franklin a posthumous special citation for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades. She will be buried in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, with her mother, Clarence L. “C.L” L. Franklin, and her half-brother Vaughn “Vince” Franklin. The Franklin family moved to Buffalo when Aretha was two. By the time Aretha turned five, Franklin had relocated to Buffalo, where he permanently relocated the family to Detroit. The Franklins had a troubled marriage due to Mr. Franklin’s infidelities.
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