The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76
News broke earlier that the R&B/Soul legend was seriously ill and was being surrounded by family and friends. Aretha Franklin passed away today (August 16) at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit Michigan.
According to a statement from the family, Franklin's official cause of death "was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type", which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist.
In the statement the family says: "In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family."
Fans and celebrities around the world are sharing tributes to the music icon.
Funeral arrangements are yet to be announced.
She started in music singing gospel in the church where his father served as parish priest in Chicago. Taking advantage of his excellent skills for music, he began his solo career with a repertoire of soul music that retained the influence of gospel, a feature that would always characterize his style.
After making her first recordings in the early 60s, with which she achieved notoriety, in the second half of the decade reached the height of popularity and began to be known as the Queen of Soul or Lady Soul, no doubt thanks to the extraordinary quality of her voice and the vigor and expressiveness of his interpretations. In 1967, his album I Never Loved a Man sold more than a million copies, and her version of the Otis Redding song Respect managed to climb to number one on the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
With Live at the Fillmore West (1971) and Young, Gifted and Black (1971), songs in which the singer decided to include the rhythm and blues in her style, she won a Grammy. Her career continued in the 1980s with collaborations with Annie Lennox and George Michael. After a parenthesis of seven years he released Rose Is Still Rose (1998), album in a style closer to soul in which the voice prevailed and abounded in the constant themes of her lyrics: religion and the female condition.
That same year was the central star of the first concert Divas Live , in which Aretha acted alongside Celine Dion , Gloria Estefan , Mariah Carey and Shania Twain. Throughout the more than fifty years of her tireless career, Aretha Franklin has seen some sixty works published and received countless awards and recognition's.
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