Aretha
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After exploring Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in its first two installments, National Geographic’s Genius series presents the transcendent life, career and music of Aretha Franklin over a four-night, eight-episode third season. Franklin sang gospel songs in her father’s church in Detroit in the 1950s, then blossomed into a pop singer in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, she was crowned “Queen of Soul,” and she would go on to leave an indelible legacy as performer, pioneer, activist and icon. “Aretha had such an amazing and long career.
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Genius: Aretha: Credit: National Geographic/Kwaku Alston
Cynthia Erivo Embodies The Queen Of Soul In Nat Geo’s Anthology. By Ryan A. Berenz
