20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

The Aretha Franklin biopic Respect is released at cinemas this week, and one of the standout performances comes from child star Skye Dakota Turner. Skye plays a young Aretha Franklin in the first part of the film, showing how the future Queen of Soul had talent from a very young age.


Remembering the Queen of Soul 20 Fascinating Photos of Aretha Franklin

Provided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticYoung, Gifted and Black · Aretha FranklinYoung, Gifted and Black℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA Inter.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

GENIUS is the Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, their extraordinary achievements and with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. This season explores Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin (born March 25, 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.—died August 16, 2018, Detroit, Michigan) American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. Franklin's mother, Barbara, was a gospel singer and pianist. Her father, C.L. Franklin, presided over the New Bethel Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, and was a.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

Jeff Ramsey, a professor in the voice department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, said that the time Aretha Franklin spent in church choirs and on the gospel circuit helped polish her genius.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

About early Aretha Franklin music: Soul in songs. By Dick Kleiner - The Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana) - December 3, 1961. One of the most unusual singing styles to catch the public ear in recent years belongs to Columbia's young Aretha Franklin.And, like most singers who have distinctive styles, she hasn't the foggiest idea where it came from.


Remembering the Queen of Soul 20 Fascinating Photos of Aretha Franklin

[Intro] To be young, gifted and Black Oh, what a lovely precious thing Oh, when you're, yes, yes, when you're When you're young Yeah, thank you, Jesus Gifted and Black Open your heart is all I.


Remembering the Queen of Soul 20 Fascinating Photos of Aretha Franklin

The version we're going to hear was made in 1956. This is the young 14-year-old Aretha Franklin. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PRECIOUS LORD") FRANKLIN: (Singing) When my, when my way goes dreary. Precious.


Remembering the Queen of Soul 20 Fascinating Photos of Aretha Franklin

21. Night Life (1967) Franklin completely inhabits Willie Nelson's song about his early career, struggling at the bottom of Nashville's ladder.The backing perfectly conjures up a dingy club at.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

But it offers little clarity around one of the most poignant parts of her young life - Franklin's becoming pregnant as a young girl, whether willingly or otherwise. In the opening of the film.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin 1972 singing "Climbing Higher Mountains" in Church after her now long deceased Reverend Father CL Franklin describes his Daughter as only HE.


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The Young Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin. AllMusic Rating. User Rating (0) Your Rating. STREAM OR BUY: Release Date August 25, 2017. Genre. R&B. Discography Timeline See Full Discography. The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin (1956) Aretha [1961] (1961) The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962)


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Aretha's father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, was a nationally known Baptist preacher and civil rights activist who, in spite of his religious commitments, impregnated a teenager at his church.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

By the time "Young, Gifted, and Black" was released in 1972, Aretha Franklin had released 21 albums, including recordings of live concerts. Church and holy belief is everywhere in her voice.


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin's earliest recordings, made at the age of 14 at the New Baptist Bethel, Detroit, Michigan in the '50s. . . 'Never Grow Old'


20 Stunning Black and White Portraits of a Very Young Aretha Franklin

By Tomás Mier. Published on August 16, 2018 06:30PM EDT. Among the mysteries of Aretha Franklin 's life and her preference for "extreme privacy," her role as a mother was one the superstar.