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AP Analysis: Aretha Franklin's Music & Legacy

(16 Aug 2018) AP GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, NEKESA MOODY REFLECTS ON ARETHA FRANKLIN'S MUSIC, LEGACY AND WHAT SHE WAS LIKE PERSONALLY Aretha Franklin knew she was the undisputed "Queen of Soul." AP Global Entertainment Editor Nekesa Moody, who built a relationship with the legendary singer over the years, says Franklin was very self-assured. "Queens always know their worth, you know? I don't know of a humble queen because you know you're a queen and you know what an amazing person you are. So I don't think that she sat around and bragged all the time, but she would let people know like, 'Hey, I am the Queen of Soul,'" she explains.    "There's a moment when Beyonce performed with Tina Turner and just said, 'The Queen.' Didn't say the Queen of Soul but said The Queen and Aretha Franklin was like, 'Excuse me. Hello. This is The Queen. There's one Queen. Let's get that straight.' And Beyonce didn't issue a rebuttal (laughs) because, you know, it's like what do you say when the Queen of Soul says, 'Excuse me.' She's the Queen of Soul. So Aretha Franklin definitely knew she was royalty and she commanded that respect and demanded that respect." Moody says she used the performer's love of soap operas to connect with her. "The first part of our interview, the first interview I did, was kind of like one-word answers kind of short, I was like, 'I'm not sure if it's going very well,' recalled Moody. "I knew she loved 'Young and the Restless.' So we chatted about (character) Victor Newman. Who doesn't love Victor Newman? And we had a great conversation and we started talking about other things and she warmed up and I think then from there the blessing was that I was able to talk to her throughout the years and so she got to know me, we got to know each other." Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, had in 2017 announced her retirement from touring.    A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R and B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," to the wised-up "Chain of Fools" to her unstoppable call for "Respect."    Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn't honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Smokey Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution. And so Motor City always stayed in Franklin's heart. "She had great kinship for the town and she held Detroit up and she was one of their biggest cheerleaders. Even after Motown left, she stayed," notes Moody of Franklin's love of Detroit.    Moody credits the singer's success throughout the decades to her versatility. "She wasn't relegated to any genre, you know, whether it was rock, pop, country. Just about anything else. Everyone bowed down to her because her music touched on everything. She did dance music, she did, she had some music that had a little twang to it and she could rock out and she could sing anything. She did jazz," Moody says.       Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...