But she’s gone home now to be with her father. “But for me, she was always my little sister who I loved so much. “She was a gifted songwriter, a fantastic musician and a great political activist,” he said. Robinson called Franklin a “game-changing sensation” who had one of the “greatest voices” of all time. Some of the singer’s family members including her grandson who spoke at her funeral were in attendance at the tribute, hosted by filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry. Music mogul Clive Davis told the crowd “there will never ever be another Aretha Franklin” at the tribute put on by the Recording Academy.
One of Franklin’s best-known performances was when she sang “My Country ’tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005. She performed at the inaugurations of President Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorial in 2011. The prolific singer and pianist sang at the dedication of her longtime friend the Rev. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She had dozens of hits over the span of half a century and took home 18 Grammy Awards. I said to myself, ‘If she wants to, I know she’s going to be somebody really important in show business.’”įranklin certainly left her imprint on music and the world. “I went into this little room, peeked in and saw this little 6-year-old girl sitting there playing the piano and singing up a storm. He said their first encounter came at Franklin’s home, which he called a “mansion.” Robinson talked about meeting a 6-year-old Franklin for the first time after her family moved from Buffalo, New York, to Detroit. “Before Aretha passed away, she was my longest living neighborhood friend,” he said. When they were younger, he said they played hide-and-seek and kick-the-can games outside. In fact, she was the girl right around the corner who became a lifelong friend, who became a musical icon,” said Robinson of Franklin, who last year died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit.
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