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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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