{"id":65416,"date":"2018-08-16T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=65416"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"aretha-louise-franklin-1942-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=65416","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Louise Franklin 1942 &#8211; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI&#8230;Aretha Louise Franklin\u00a0(March 25, 1942\u00a0\u2013 August 16, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter. She began her career as a child singing\u00a0<a title=\"Gospel music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_music\">gospel<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a title=\"New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Bethel_Baptist_Church_(Detroit,_Michigan)\">New Bethel Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0in Detroit, where her father,\u00a0<a title=\"C. L. Franklin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C._L._Franklin\">C. L. Franklin<\/a>, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a\u00a0<a title=\"Secular music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secular_music\">secular career<\/a>, recording for\u00a0<a title=\"Columbia Records\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Records\">Columbia Records<\/a>\u00a0but achieving only modest success. After signing to\u00a0<a title=\"Atlantic Records\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Records\">Atlantic Records<\/a>\u00a0in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as &#8220;<a title=\"Respect (song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Respect_(song)#Aretha_Franklin_version_2\">Respect<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a title=\"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/(You_Make_Me_Feel_Like)_A_Natural_Woman\">(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a title=\"Spanish Harlem (song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Harlem_(song)\">Spanish Harlem<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title=\"Think (Aretha Franklin song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Think_(Aretha_Franklin_song)\">Think<\/a>&#8220;. By the end of the 1960s she was being\u00a0<a title=\"Honorific nicknames in popular music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music\">called<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;the Queen of Soul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCagh1huBZ4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aretha_Franklin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aretha_Franklin_1968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click above for her full profile on Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI&#8230;Aretha Louise Franklin\u00a0(March 25, 1942\u00a0\u2013 August 16, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter. She began her career as a child singing\u00a0gospel\u00a0at\u00a0New Bethel Baptist Church\u00a0in Detroit, where her father,\u00a0C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a\u00a0secular career, recording for\u00a0Columbia Records\u00a0but achieving only modest success. After signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aretha_Franklin_1968.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}