Unknown by virtually all population, Franklin amazingly has just got Two songs hit a #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100, "Respect" in the 1960s, and her 1980's duet with George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me". All the same, numbers of of her singles keep close at h& hit Top 20, Top 10, and Top Five positions. Biography

As a toddler, Franklin & her sisters, Carolyn and Erma, sang at her father's Detroit-area church & manufactured her number one recordings at a age Fourteen. She signed by having Columbia Records after being found by legendary The&R man John Hammond. In the early 1960s, Franklin had two or three popular songs, virtually all notably "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody." Though Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer, a outcomes never gave good rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest & virtually all innovative operate was eventually to are.

When moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin teamed up sustaining producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardinside, resulting in a select few of the virtually all influential R&B recordings of the 1960s, including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", a much more soulful and impassioned song than most of her earlier work. Per late 1960s, Franklin experienced earned a nickname "The Queen of Soul", getting be an internationally noted creative person & the symbol of pride for the Black community. Franklin said herself of this period of time, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."

She freed many Top Ten hits in the late 1960s & early 1970s, dabbling in gospel music, blues music, pop music, psychedelic music and rock and roll, including notable covers of songs by The Beatles ("Eleanor Rigby"), The Band ("The Weight"), Simon & Garfunkel ("Bridge Over Troubled Water"), Sam Cooke and The Drifters. Survive at Fillmore West & Amazing Grace were 2 of her virtually all influential good-length releases, the latter the double LP of survive gospel music recorded inside a Los Angeles Baptist church. Amazingly she never manufactured it to first in a UK popular stock and index charts — the better effect existence the dull quaternion using her version of Burt Bacharach's "I Say a Little Prayer" inside 1968.

Among her virtually all successful hit singles from either this era were "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)", "Think", "Baby I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", & "Respect", the handle of an Otis Redding single which became her signature song. When a R&B category was added to the Grammy Awards in 1968, she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the 1980s.

inside a early Seventies, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, & she continued the tremendously successful relationship using Wexler & Mardin when beginning to take a greater role in producing her function. The partnership using Quincy Jones led to a unsatisfying album within 1973 Hey At present Hey (A More Side of the Sky). However it however produced the standout track "Angel", written by her sister Carolyn which became the soul classic.

She returned to working by having Wexler, however their previous collaboration, a Atlantic LP Professional people was discharged around 1975.

Franklin freed many LPs when Professional people including Sparkle around 1976 which yielded the #1 R&B single, "(Giving Him )Something He Can Feel" , Sweet Passion, Almighty Fire (also produced by Curtis Mayfield) and La Diva, her last Atlantic LP.

Wexler experienced currently left Atlantic & a partnership was assibilate. Despite working using creative person of a stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity & critical profits waned when you took a mid to late 1970s & the 1980s, though she scored several hits, typically sustaining partners (like Luther Vandross). Her virtually all notable Eighties hit was a dance song "Freeway of Love", which charted around 1985. Virtually all critics forget about her post-Atlantic poop when far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.

She married Ted White inside 1962 and he became her manager during her years by using Columbia Records. A marriage ended around 1969 and she has always refused to guide questions all about it. The Instance Magazine handle story inside 1968 led to the causa from either Ted White all over allegations that he experienced roughed her higher publically. A affair manufactured her guard her personal life potentially supplementary jealously & she gave there is no interviews for many years fallowing that. She inhabits now inside Detroit.

Interesting Facts
Aretha Franklaround was sued for breach of contract in 1984 when she was unable to star in the Broadway musical Sing, Mahalia, Sing, (based on a life of gospel legend Mahalia Jackson) mainly because of her phobic neurosis of flight. She was inducted into a Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.

Albums
1956 The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin 1961 Aretha 1962 The Electrifying Aretha Franklin 1962 The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin 1963 Laughing on the Outside 1964 Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington 1964 Songs of Faith 1965 Yeah!: Aretha Franklin in Person 1965 Once in a Lifetime 1967 I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) 1967 Aretha Arrives 1967 Take It Like You Give It 1967 Lee Cross 1968 Lady Soul 1968 Aretha Now 1968 Aretha in Paris 1969 Aretha Franklin: Live! 1969 I Say a Little Prayer 1969 ''Soul '69 1970 This Girl's In Love with You 1970 Don't Play That Song 1970 Sweet Bitter Love 1970 Spirit in the Dark 1971 Aretha Live at the Fillmore West 1971 Young, Gifted and Black 1972 Amazing Grace 1973 Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) 1974 With Everything I Feel in Me 1974 Let Me in Your Life 1975 You 1976 Sparkle 1977 Satisfaction 1977 Sweet Passion 1977 Most Beautiful Songs 1978 Almighty Fire 1979 La Diva 1980 Aretha 1980 Aretha Sings the Blues 1981 Love All the Hurt Away 1982 Jump to It 1983 Get It Right 1984 Never Grow Old 1985 First Lady of Soul 1985 Who's Zoomin' Who? 1986 Aretha 1986 Soul Survivor 1987 One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism 1989 Through the Storm 1991 What You See Is What You Sweat 1998 A Rose Is Still a Rose 2003 So Damn Happy

Filmography
The Blues Brothers (1980) Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) Immaculate Funk (2000) (documentary) Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) (documentary) Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty'' (2003) (documentary)