Tag: Aretha Franklin
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My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
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Beyonce is a very hard-working woman. Astrologically, for whatever it’s worth, she’s a Virgo – like Michael Jackson, a hard worker.
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My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.
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Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, ‘You Send Me.’ Irma, my older sister, and I heard ‘You Send Me’ on the radio while we were driving through the South one night. We had to stop the car. We got out and danced around the car out on the highway.
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I came up in gospel.
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My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It’s nice.
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I was in my dad’s church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was ‘Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.’
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We’ve come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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The love of my life? I’m much too young to answer that question.
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