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What an icon. Aretha Franklin “Queen of Soul” moved us in every sense of the word. She brought Americans together, lifted our spirits and voices and feet. We’re better for her extraordinary gifts. #RESPECT #RIP
#ArethaFranklin—“Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter.” Great tribute from @FJasmineG thenation.com/article/aretha… h/t @Sifill_LDF @johnlegend
"Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect."—@BarackObama & @MichelleObama on #ArethaFranklin's passing.
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I spent the day listening to #ArethaFranklin and getting emotional more often than I expected.

I have always loved Aretha Franklin. I even loved the eras that other fans would've preferred to pretend did not exist.

In tribute here are my favorite
recordings:

1/
"Don't trouble the water..."

My mom used to sing this song to me whenever I was upset as a child, which was often. Elvis performed her favorite version.

I loved the original, but for me it's Aretha rendition and it's incredible vocal arrangement .

2/
#Aretha was an instrument of the gods.

When she sang it looked both effortless and all consuming.

Like Tina, when Aretha covered a song the original often receded from your consciousness.

"Spanish Harlem" is Aretha's song.

3/
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Obama’s description of Aretha Franklin, and why she moved him, is just perfection:

newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…

“Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R. & B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed ...
... into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. American history wells up when Aretha sings. That’s why, when she sits down at a piano and sings ‘A Natural Woman,’ she can move me to tears—...
...the same way that Ray Charles’s version of ‘America the Beautiful’ will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed—because it captures the fullness of the American experience...
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I am sorry for Aretha’s family.

Aretha is a spectacular, uniquely American treasure - we were lucky to be alive and enjoy her genius.

Here is a thread - a moment to appreciate Aretha’s gifts, and thank a woman who gave us so much. A life that will never be repeated.
First, for you youngins here, let’s talk about one of the great live albums. Ever. Play this album now.

Turn it up.

Every child born in America, by law, should be given a birth certificate and a copy of “Aretha Franklin Live at the Fillmore West” open.spotify.com/album/2LDYdZO5…
She’s The Queen of Soul, no question - she was actually ‘coronated’ 1967 at Chicago’s Regal Theater. That’s the legend Pervis Spann presiding over an actual crown being placed on the head the then 25-year old Aretha, thus dubbed "The Queen of Soul".

That was over 50 years ago.
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Aretha Franklin was welcomed by every President for decades. Could not find a photo of her with Pres John F. Kennedy or Pres Nixon.

But here is Franklin with a representative sample of every Presidential photo I could find, including the current President

#Respect
Aretha Franklin, far left, performs at Jimmy Carter's Presidential Inaugural Gala on January 20, 1977.

Did not find a photo of the two of them together.
And of course Aretha Franklin will always be remembered as moving us to tears of joy during the Administration of President Barack Obama
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.@ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Legendary singer Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, has passed away, according to the Associated Press. abcn.ws/2Bgli8s
Aretha Franklin, known as the "Queen of Soul," has passed away, according to the Associated Press. abcn.ws/2nH9P8b
Known simply by her first name, Franklin was a cultural icon whose career spanned six decades and traversed various genres of music, from gospel to R&B to pop to opera. abcn.ws/2nH9P8b
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