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AICE General Paper

27 Feb 2023

Choose Your Own Text: Black History Month

Title of Arethra Franklin

Text/Video
Author David Ritz
Website https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aretha-Franklin
Topic Women of Black History
Summarize, Aretha Franklin, (born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tenn.,
in 100-150 U.S.—died Aug. 16, 2018, in Detroit, Mich.), U.S. famous
words, the singer. Franklin’s family moved from Memphis to Detroit
main idea when she was two. Her father, C.L. Franklin, was a
of the text revivalist preacher whose church and home were visited by
musical luminaries such as Clara Ward, Mahalia Jackson,
B.B. King, and Dinah Washington. Franklin made her first
recording at age 12. At first, she performed only gospel
music, but at age 18 she switched from sacred to secular
music. After struggling for several years to achieve
crossover success, in 1967 her powerful and fervent voice
took the country by storm as she began to release a string of
songs including “I Never Loved a Man (the Way, I Love
You),” “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” and “Natural
Woman.” Her rousing mixture of gospel and rhythm and
blues defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s,
and she became known as the “Queen of Soul.” In 1987
Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.
Explain, in I find this article interesting b/c it tells the life of the
75-100 “Queen of Soul" singer Aretha Franklin and it talks about
words, why how she struggled to be known and to be herself. She sang
you find a lot of genres from gospel to rhythm and blues, but she
this text didn’t really have any freedom of what genre she sang until
interesting she signed with Atlantic Records who let her form her own
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musical identity. And after she did that, she became more
popular with the crowds, touring Europe and Latin America
and became known as the Queen of Soul years after.
Explain, in Everyone should read this because it's about a woman that a
50-100 lot of people don’t talk about during black history month,
words, why and I think it’d be a great learning experience for everyone
your also they might learn that she wrote a song that they like or
classmates that one of their favorite songs is written by her or they
should might want to listen to all the songs (that she sang in or
choose this sang) that they listed in the article. And some might not like
text to read her style of singing or the song itself or Aretha Franklin’s
and analyze music in general, and that’s okay if they’re not being rude
together in about it.
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