Aretha Franklin revisits church and childhood home in Detroit

The family of Aretha Franklin continues to plan memorial events following the legendary singer's death on Thursday at the age of 76. Back in 2011 for "CBS Sunday Morning," Anthony Mason had the chance to visit the church that sowed Franklin's roots with the Queen of Soul herself.
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[@AbdulGlover]

Simply the BEST female artist of our time...”Who’s Zooming Who” 👏👏

[@olubukonla7352]

And a Rose Is Still A Rose

[@christinewomack8999]

I loved both of those songs🌷🎵🎶🎤

[@newnana9070]

Everyone in Detroit knows this house was the Franklin home. Always down to earth, real, humble woman. Full of love.

[@MeredithAnne88]

She seemed like such a down-to-earth woman, with a lot of great stories to share.

[@teammmx]

1:29 Listen to her voice. It has inspired generations of singers, from gospel to country to R&B. Her father, who was a legend in his own right, never would've imagined that his daughter would be requested to sing at the inauguration of our first black president. 3:35 RIP Queen.

[@ryansand123]

teammm that run she did sent me chills legend in her own right!

[@lisaanderson6623]

A True Legendary. Music Power House .A Sensational GOD fearing Woman.A African American The 1 st.Rock n Roll Hall a Famer.to be inducted in the Hall a Fame.And one of the 1 st.Singers a Woman R N B to when Count less of Awards and Grammy Awards.A True Born Gospel Singer.Aretha colaberated with Count less of Up rising Famous Stars.Aretha was a Queen in her Right. R.i.p ! In Heaven. Sing for The Lord Now !!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹💗

[@willdwyer6782]

She even sang opera a couple times. Her last minute substitution for Pavarotti at the 1998 Grammy Awards is legendary. She sang the same Puccini aria again in Philly for the pope's visit in 2015.

[@jaelyntayla]

Awe it was so sad to see her cry, she’s with her parents now☹️

[@MeredithAnne88]

She loved them very much.

[@keepingitrealandtruthful.5081]

And her sisters Carol and Erma and her brother Rev Cecil L Franklin.

[@silviapratchet3694]

areatha Franklin. finished her mission down here. an earth an although. many. of. us loved her god loved her more. rip. in the. arms of are heavenly. father

[@CatValentine6128]

Silvia Pratchet hgghjhgg

[@brendagreen2569]

Yes she did it well she served her purpose on this Earth 🌏.We all Have to leave her someday.ThankyouGod for Blessing us with MamaQueen.To me she’s just like a mama I respect my elders.Sing in the Heavenly places now😃

[@tuwandanoble1601]

I am mourning and feeling hurt about Aretha Franklin passing although I did not know her personally. I suppose I am hurt because I am going to miss her representation of Soulful music or her legacy or perhaps the idea of Good music to enjoy. Aretha music can bring back the cherished memories I have of my mother or make my soul peaceful and tranquil when the chaos of the world seems too much. Aretha I will miss you and I thank you for sharing your music, your legacy, your soul! Rest Easy Queen

[@hopediamond4real]

Tuwanda Noble, yes, you said it so eloquently.

[@tuwandanoble1601]

Thank You

[@celestematthews3266]

Tuwanda Noble She's resting in God's kingdom eternity forever 🕊

[@pinkrose1438]

Tuwanda Noble,You're not alone! We're all mourning the loss of a great soul! It's kind of hard to digest. Sweet sleep Ms Aretha Franklin. You will always love and remembered in our 💕

[@alicereed9596]

Dr. E.Dewey Smith

[@jennyt777]

I love you Aretha! You touched so many lives. We women cried to your “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”... your beautiful voice will be with us forever! I hope you are up there with Luther, Ella, and the many other gospel, soulful greats. You will be sorrily missed. Rest in eternal peace, our Queen of Soul.

[@mofo9886]

Pregnant at 12 years old, mediocre voice just loud. She was decent bit not what she is being made out to be...

[@Rowena1959]

God bless you

[@Rowena1959]

God bless you

[@Rowena1959]

Amen

[@jennyt777]

Rowna Washington thank you❤️

[@luisdonoso269]

Back in Cuba in my teen years,she was my favorita.Her voice touched my soul.QUEEN OF SOUL forever.

[@emilywatson2539]

Luhbc x, xbl?

[@MiLoveHazel]

THAT VOICE ❤️

[@ElijahLukeMusic]

When she got upset about her dad...😢😢

[@musicismymistra8437]

Awww Aretha was so down to earth and Humble. I remember growing up and dancing with my Sister and Cousin to her Music. Boy we had Fun. 💙 love you Aretha.

[@___David___Savian]

I would be crying too if I was approaching a sign on a park that had my late father's name on it. I would be crying uncontrollably like a baby.

[@daphanydubois]

Ms. Aretha Franklin ~ ♡♡♡ RIP We will always love you! "Queen of Soul"

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

That run at 1:42 was NUTS! Pure Aretha.

[@nikkyk2016]

O I miss her I act like I really knew her personality

[@itsraven5607]

Aretha franklin parent' house on LaSalle garden street

[@lorettabyrd1492]

Me to💗

[@musicismymistra8437]

If you grew up listening and dancing to her Music you did. I feel like I knew her too.

[@ladylove9489]

Rest easy there will never be other like the Queen of soul Aretha Franklin! ❤

[@rondathompson6244]

SO TRUE A ROSE will always be a ROSE😗 rest in peace queen of soul you will not be forgotten💔

[@lgould6535]

I am a Jamaican fan of Aretha Franklin. I am not a dancer but when I hear her songs - gospel or otherwise - I have to do some movement. My deepest condolences to her family and friends. She is just resting. She lives on in her soul touching songs. Lots of love!

[@OCRATHLETE]

Walk In The Light: Our favorite song of Aretha Franklin. Great interview

[@lakishalindsey9106]

She looked so beautiful here. 2015, before the cancer came back full force I would assume. God rest her soul.

[@helengrigsby4838]

We will continue to cherish her life. People live your life to the fullest. Ms. You Queen.

[@jazzmanchgo]

Speaking of amazing moments -- to be with Aretha in that church as she sits at the organ and accompanies herself singing . . . THAT would remain imprinted in my mind for the rest of my life.

[@MeredithAnne88]

This is such an amazing interview. How special to share these moments with her.

[@sexyscorpio8087]

No Matter Where U Go In Life We Always Go Back Home Some Day!!!😘😍😘😍R.I.P.

[@Queenwithinmysoul]

So true

[@alvinishawatson1965]

rip aretha Franklin u be miss u my favorite singer

[@allisonanderson9175]

Amen, and thank you Lord!!!

[@CrystalKinchen7]

Indeed!

[@choosetoshine2610]

Amen! Return home!

[@carolynminter7839]

Live on Queen. You will never be forgotten. We love you!*

[@dontreehardy5280]

She aged very well so graceful and she was just a such a small woman but what a gigantic powerful voice long live the queen of soul may she forever rest in power.

[@Maria-kg1nh]

beautiful tribute for a deserving human being. We were blessed by her existence and God Given gift. Praying comfort and love to all her family, loved ones and those who were touched by her life. God Bless!!!

[@helengrigsby4838]

Such a beautiful woman with a powerful voice. Love the queen

[@desireedarjean5785]

She felt the same way about Sam Cooke as I do

[@sexymama1966]

Sam Cooke:)

[@wintersjean7099]

Desireé Darjean sam Cooke was one of thoes layed back singer to me like real Kool u couldn't help but love him too rip Aretha

[@wintersjean7099]

Especially nearer my God to thee couldn't nobody sing that like Sam Cooke

[@Rowena1959]

Rest in peace my sister you will be missed so please submit it by the Washington family in Philadelphia Pennsylvania I will never forget you I enjoyed your music since I was a kid now and I'm grown and I still enjoy music I love you but God loves you best

[@BKARI215]

Awww Aretha Franklin....God Bless You Lady!!!!! Rest Well Queen

[@raineyj560]

Aretha looked like her mom.

[@claudinecalhoun5670]

She actually does look like her mother...Which is exactly what I was just saying only an hour ago! Her mother is absolutely gorgeous! I have always loved to hear Aretha Sing ....Especially: “ Ain’t No Way “ and “ Baby, Baby, Baby “...Those Two Right There would have me in another world! I’ll Truly Miss This Amazing Lady. May Peace Be With You, Miss Queen Ree Ree! You’re No Longer In Pain. Love You In Heaven, Sweetheart!

[@lorettabyrd1492]

Yes💖

[@chrispecot7282]

Claudine Calhoun Mahalia Jackson said that her mother could sing like no other, that her voice was beautiful.

[@breshellise88welch87]

She looked exactly like her mom her mom was just really fair skinned really light

[@DetroitLives313]

I will love her forever!

[@astoldbykaycee5122]

❤R. I. P QUEEN

[@celestematthews3266]

Kaycee Bass FOREVER 🕊

[@winterkiyomi]

Being from detroit its a tough city the gutta gutta the hood the true trenches and 👑aretha made it out and put on for our city love you queen💔😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@ATL4LIFE2023]

We always wait to tell someone we love them, or appreciate them or how much they mean to us and what can I do? Just do it. Life is so short. Rest Aretha. Thank you so much for your music, talent and gift..Thank you👼

[@barbaracarter7590]

Jazz Jazzy Saketta this mom call me back when you got home

[@cherrywilliams9579]

She was truly a Angel sent by God

[@PamelaTaylor]

She did So Many, Many, wonderful thing for people that many didnt even know

[@sheilapalmer224]

Nobody can't never ever take her place

[@AllAboutTheFranklins1124]

R. I. P. Aretha Franklin you are truly missed, I Love You

[@celestematthews3266]

Juanita Franklin So do I

[@David-wm4ox]

I Remember when I visited the church when I was a young man, my pastor was the guest Preacher, Rev, Willie James Saunders, Trenton New Jersey

[@Nonrelatable_t]

Shes so beautiful 😭

[@albertarmstrong7198]

I want to meet her family one day soon and let them no how much she inspired me.

[@jcextranow]

She was touched by the love the city of Detroit showed in dedicating a city park to the name of her father. Now there will be a park dedicated to her honor as well as well as a number of other city landmarks I'm sure. She was an integral part of the city of Detroit. Her entire family was. She was so real and affectionate. And a fathers daughter. She loved her father so much.

[@lisal29]

Thanks to her family for letting Detroiters view her body and going to her funeral as well. It didn't end til 9pm!

[@Zenobiadream]

Long live the Queen.. oh how we will miss you.

[@RG-hf4et]

What a nice home in a nice section of Detroit.

[@catherinelittle3095]

Nothing but love 💕

[@kimberlyblack5320]

One of the greatest divas she's truly missed

[@marylarkins609]

I grew up listening to her meaningful lovely songs. Especially. Baby baby baby i played on my piano.

[@MUSICENCYLOPEDIA]

Ree was a Class Act. Her parents separated when she was young and her mother did keep in touch with Ree and her siblings through telephone calls and letters and during the summer, Ree and her siblings Erma, Cecil and Carolyn would spend their summer with their mother and their brother Vaughn until her unexpected death from a heart attack. After their father was shot, Ree paid lots of money for his medical care until he died 5 years after he was shot. Ree loved her parents.

[@msa1678]

The greatest Singer of all time.

[@Nonrelatable_t]

2:27 😭😍😍

[@lisal29]

I used to be a young security guard at the apartment complex where she lived up until her death. I also Stephanie Mills, too who also live there as well.

[@ChrisXIllustratesXGaming]

She looked just like her mother.

[@annetteboyd267]

what a wonderful woman. and her father and mother and her were Rock s.

[@a.d4874]

Rip to the queen of soul❤️❤️

[@DINOLOVER6717]

Oh 🥺🥺 my heart hurts

[@jacklensmith22]

This is soooo wonderful to be captured. RIP Beautiful Queen👑💕👑

[@johniorio7951]

I can never forget the first time hearing her record with James cleveland...i was in a psych hospital and it played on the radio...what a powerful gospel album!

[@bd3825]

Her mom was gorgeous just like her. Sad to see her cry.

[@gregoryhumbert8650]

Can't believe it has been 3 years since losing Aretha Franklin. RIP Hero (1942-2018). She will be missed.

[@m.waymire]

Dam time moving quickly , dont seem like three years.

[@igetit7470]

What a CLASS ACT! Does not exist in the new generations.

[@celestematthews3266]

I getit What doesn't exist

[@2dasimmons]

And it will not as we are in the end of the END-TIMES now that Trump is POTUS. RIP ARETHA FRANKLIN.

[@bahlsdeepe868]

That made me cry. She was such a talent. Detroit used to be a special place❤

[@romemeka]

May she rest in peace

[@tafimutekwe2855]

Indeed the greatest voice of our time.

[@omargoodnesssake]

One of THE greatest singers that ever lived. And I’m so glad that she had the awesome honor so sing for our nation’s first black President 🙏🏾 And I’m sure Barack Obama was honored as well.

[@theresawebb1806]

Glad to listen to this aretha will always be a m7sical legend.

[@StanOrlowski]

Aretha has the Angels singing backup in Heaven.

[@jazzmanchgo]

AND she's doing the arrangements!

[@sandraatkins2539]

AMEN

[@sandraatkins2539]

❤❤🙏

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

I hope you at peace and up there with the some of the greatest artists that ever grace this earth with their talent like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, James Brown, Rick James, Luther Vandross, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Aaliyah and so on hope there is peace.

[@claireclaudie265]

I love Her and I am crying

[@albertarmstrong7198]

I love to heaven and back. She inspired me to sing and i mimicked her as a child.never met her.in heaven.amen.

[@veronicaronilake2691]

Such sad to hear the things that happened to her in her childhood her daddy out of be ashamed of himself

[@bemetrina]

Veronica Roni Lake what happened to her

[@solinspired4428]

U dont know what is or isnt true

[@musicismymistra8437]

I would think if her dad had done that to her she wouldnt love him like she did. No one knows what went on in her family.

[@Melanin2670]

Sangggg 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽♥️

[@johnnylee2744]

we will only have one Queen and one King and that's a rita Franklin and Elvis King I love both of them and they will be missed God bless them amen

[@catherinefrye7269]

RIP BEAUTIFUL QUEEN. ❤

[@louisejones798]

Love the Queen.

[@beebee9165]

I Love the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin!

[@noliandredmniibanniter1122]

I love aretha Frankin

[@lorettabyrd1492]

So Beautiful 💗 Tears

[@ragelgal9799]

R.I.P

[@charlieredeemed]

She's in Heaven!

[@christinewomack8999]

We place OUR opinion on what these stars are like, I know I comment on them. But I'm going to remember that they are humans too, it breaks my heart to hear of the tragedy that they go through. S.I.P. MISS FRANKLIN 🌷🎤🎶🎵💜

[@thomaslombardo3401]

Amazing career, Amazing woman. 💛

[@honeybuzzard2843]

GREATEST SINGER OF OUR TIME.

[@nellpatt905]

Sasha Obama kinda favor Aretha Franklin on some of Aretha Franklin's younger portraits.

[@celestematthews3266]

Nell Patt No she dont

[@MrMystri]

Are we watching the same clip?

[@gdtimi]

RIP Queen

[@claireclaudie265]

Everybody knows and Respect Her

[@queenmcnair5053]

I love you

[@ralphsbabygirl41]

She could sing the phone book

[@mslady3034]

Rest.easy queen.

[@jeanheard4615]

Aretha was born in Rome Georgia they use to tape her music in the garbage her father became pastor of the church in Detroit that when they move she started singing in church at the age of 10 she always had a great voice

[@jeanheard4615]

Sorry about the miss print tape her music in the garage back then black people would not have pictures on albums

[@sheilapalmer224]

I am a fan of her

[@krissykidsshow6412]

I see 54 haters 👊🏾

[@franceemile5417]

Hi

[@calvinsampson1735]

RIP Aretha

[@janeicemcneill6962]

I am happy that she got to re-visit her ole "stomping grounds". I am sad for what happened to her parents.

[@nfuruBukuluN1-o5s]

🎉i claim my rule in baby Aretha Franklin first😊

[@usastrong8913]

She was true to her heart. She forgave her dad.

[@tcb1017]

We are so thankful for all those talanted people who has been and lived on this earth but it shows again, that we all will die and be the same in the end. The meaning of life mmmmmmmmmmm nobody knows but some has said that it goes only like 3 generations and then it dies but the singers and music players and those who has made films, that last somewhat forever.

[@LuxeBeautySupplyWaldorf]

Nicely done

[@lesliejohnson3743]

My Thoughts And Prayers For ARETHA FRANKLIN Family and FRIENDS!! SHE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE TRUE QUEEN OF SOUL!! RIP 👑 YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED By the 🌎!!💝💕❤

[@tapper701]

Smoking really took a toll on her voice & appearance ... Puff the un-magic drag-on ...