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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2018 ARETHA FRANKLIN | 1942 — 2018 A NATURAL WOMAN Singer Aretha Franklin performs at the inaugural gala for President Bill Clinton in Washington. Franklin died today at her home in Detroit. She was 76. AP Photo/ Amy Sancetta Legendary ‘Queen of Soul’ dies at 76 By MESFIN FEKADU and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press N EW YORK — Aretha Frank- lin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with match- less style on such classics as “Think,” ‘’I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died today at age 76 from pancreatic cancer. She died at her home in Detroit — “one of the darkest moments of our lives,” her family said, in a statement released by pub- licist Gwendolyn Quinn. “We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, sup- porters and fans all around the world ,” the family said, adding that funeral arrange- ments would be announced in coming days. Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, announced her retirement from touring last year. A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest pop- ular vocalist of her time. Her gifts, nat- ural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and train- ing worthy of a preacher’s daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song. “She was truly one of a kind,” said Clive Davis, the music mogul who brought her to Arista Records and helped revive her career in the 1980s. “She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national trea- sure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world.” She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half cen- tury , including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” to the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to her unstoppable call for “Respect.” Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn’t honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fellow singers bowed to her eminence. Said Smokey Robinson, who grew up with her in Detroit: “This morning my longest friend in this world went home to be with our Father. I will miss her so much but I know she’s at peace.” Political and civic leaders treated her as a peer. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a longtime friend, and she sang at the dedica- tion of King’s memorial, in 2011. She per- formed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts. President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005. Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a state- ment mourning the loss of their friend and “one of America’s greatest treasures.” For more than 50 years, they said, Franklin “stirred our souls. She was elegant, grace- ful, and utterly uncompromising in her artistry.” Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ‘tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhine- stone-bordered bow that became an inter- net sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center trib- ute to the song’s co-writer, Carole King. Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. She was married from 1961 to 1969 to her manager, Ted White, and their battles are widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, includ- ing “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ‘’Think” and her heartbreak- ing ballad of despair, “Ain’t No Way.” The mother of two sons by age 16 (she later had two more), she was often in turmoil as she struggled with her weight, family prob- lems and financial predicaments. Her best known producer, Jerry Wexler, nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.” Franklin married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 in Los Angeles but returned to her hometown of Detroit the following year after her father was shot by burglars and left semi-comatose until his death in 1984. She and Turman divorced that year. 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