The Real Truth Behind The Tragic Life Of Aretha Franklin

[@beverlypearson6704]

RIP MRS. ARETHA FRANKLIN, YOUR MUSIC STILL A JOY TO LISTEN TOO!!! I LOVE YOU!!❤❤❤❤!

[@godlygirls62]

There are many talented singers in this world. What set Aretha apart, was that she was beyond talented. She had a gift from God

[@MsRunningbear]

I was her makeup artist when she was with Atlantic Records Joel Brodsky photographer. She was a beautiful spirit and I will never forget the time that I spent with her, she will always be my dear friend. At that time Ken was with her, one thing that I can tell you SHE COULD COOK AS WELL AS SHE COULD SING. I AM PAT EVANS (THE SHAVEN HEAD MODEL ON THE OHIO PLAYERS COVERS)

[@Bhgh-kq6qc]

So , before you modeled you did make up ? Or was that how it went back in the day ?

[@MsRunningbear]

@@Bhgh-kq6qc I WAS A TOP MODEL FIRST, HOWEVER I MET HER FIRST... INTRODUCED BY OLATUNJI THE DRUMMER(I WAS ONE OF HIS DANCERS) AND THEN DURING MY MODELING CAREER I MET HER AGAIN WHEN JOEL BRODSKY PHOTOGRAPHER FOR HER ALBUMS, ASKED ME TO DO HER MAKEUP. I WAS DOING MAKEUP FOR MELBA MOOR, CICELY TYSON, AND MANY OTHER MALE AND FEMALE BLACK ENTERTAINERS I ALSO DID LEONARD NIMOY'S MAKEUP FOR A DOCUMENTARY.

[@lutherwilliams8429]

I will always remember Aretha as a gift from God!!! Greatest voice I have ever heard!!

[@chuckspoke]

You know you had the gift to get black church to forget about 13 year old single mother. Her voice was just amazing and unreal. "Never Grow Old" almost 15 minutes of powerhouse singing and piano playing. She can sing anything and her catalog is vast, Some song I never heard until after her death. Amazing was number 1 sell gosplel album unti another Franklin come along. Kirk Franklin and Family. Amazing Grace still just amazing piece. As long as their Beethoven, Beatles and US. There will always be Aretha Franklin. Father said she was wondering if she would be forgotten in her last day. Never will forget. I do believe Ted White was still alive when she passed. She always made time to support public television. All day marathon support public television.

[@evelyndusha269]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ScottD_]

Why is the thumbnail not even Aretha…

[@DeborahMurdock-c2m]

It looks like a corpse 😮

[@debrannkaye861]

I was praying that wasn't her thank you

[@KeandraB-Love]

😆

[@wa7658]

Cus I was like wtf?

[@kimrivers8605]

Thank You 😳

[@grant1088]

That picture was not Aretha franklin you went and got worse picture you could find and it's not even her so disrespectful to her and family and people who love her shame on you . 5:14

[@anisahali4858]

It sure not/ that’s MAXINE WATERS

[@godlygirls62]

Chris Cuomo said the following of the queen: "If you don't believe in God, that's your prerogative. But how can you hear Aretha Franklin sing and not know there must be a God". Queen Elizabeth had the song respect played in Aretha's honor

[@christhomas5761]

Why you using another person`s photo in the thumbnail ? You know that`s not a photo of Aretha but you used it anyway . Shame on you !

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

Please Re-Edit this one. It keeps showing Ted White's picture whenever mentioning C.L. Franklin. Whitney Houston was never a member of the Sweet Inspirations, Cissy Houston was. It was Cissy whose voice is on the "Ain't No Way" recording. Dionne Warwick was already a Solo Artist when Aretha hit her commercial stride. She never sung on an Aretha Franklin recording.

[@waynesanders1589]

Touched my heart!!

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

RIP Ms. Franklin

[@dianapatterson283]

All I Remember,Was Good Music .Coming From Da Queen Of Soul.She Gave Us Gospel , Blues,.She Also Gave Us Love Music.Acting, WOW ONE THANG ABOUT IT.She Serve EveryBody❤❤😂😅😢😊😮

[@dianapatterson283]

RIP Aretha Franklin❤❤❤❤

[@reedyism]

This is not Aretha!!

[@theinsightfulvisionary0197]

It sure isn't!!!

[@sheroderickjohnson]

Information is wrong. Amazing Grace was 1972 not 1970. That was 1982 when she stopped flying not 1984. How does Natural Woman have anything to do with Civil Rights? Mavis nor Whitney were members of the Sweet Inspirations. Whitney mom Cissy sang background on Ain't No Way not Whitney. Nippy and Ree Ree were not close at all

[@HelenM.Perkins]

Good give us the truth not lies from NAY SAYERS!

[@HelenM.Perkins]

Good; give us the truth. Thank you

[@barbarawithers4049]

PEOPLE.BELEIVE HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE& NONE OF WHAT YOU HEAR!!!!!!!!

[@zenobia.wowcrockett5288]

Wow that interesting ❤❤❤

[@071oakland]

That's a photo of Aretha before she died I know she looked different. But that's what that Cancer did to her.. But Salute To The Queen!! It will never be another!! R.I.P. 🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐🎤🎼❣️

[@shondabaker6705]

That's not Aretha in the beginning

[@louismzobe3073]

You didn't mention Smokey Robinson as they grew up together in Detroit

[@lauramannen6904]

That picture is not ReeRee!

[@andrieswillemdeboer5675]

there are some wrongs in this story not Withney but her mother Sissy Housten was part of the Sweet Inspirations and sang on Ain't no Way and other songs on those times and also Dion Warwick was not a part of the Sweet Inspirations!

[@sheroderickjohnson]

You are correct Dionne Warwick was not apart of the Sweet Inspirations. Neither was her daughter Whitney or Mavis as the video stated

[@gregggreene7416]

First picture is not the Queen. Who was that women?

[@dorothymays-pitts3834]

My my Aretha had great exposure but at the same time her great pervert father lead and mislead Aretha to the point of success and her children father where her father could be named but the truth would never be called out my my the Lord is good and merciful and He will protect us in our most needed places in our lives glory be to God also I pray Aretha is resting in peace. Dorothy Pitts

[@bettywmay3319]

I heard on a talk show that I think it was james told her to take her purse everywhere she went and stopping leaving it on the floor and she did that too.😂 ..

[@None-l3t]

You need to STOP SAYING THAT THE LIVES IF THESE ENTERTAINERS, ETC. ARE TRAGIC ND SO BAD ME DAMN. OR WERE TRAGIC. THEIR LIVES WERE NOT TRAGIC HOW WERE THEORR LIVES WHEN THEIR VOICES AND MUSIC WAS THE SOLID ROCK THAT UPLIFTED AO MANY SPIRITS.

[@o.ch.5334]

❤

[@jamesparker9012]

I love th o s story but shame on you for that awful picture it's no even our beautiful queen

[@spookart]

A fairly bad review on Aretha Franklin's whole, full of badly mixed images, many of them not even of her, saying nothing we already don't know and adding a weak truth to the uncertainties about her bio. It would be most desirable, for respect sake, for Soul sake, to be honest and to write clearly and transparently instead of returning to a panegyric of hidden truths to which we are accustomed. We are no longer children. Nobody wants to judge Aretha Franklin, nor do we have the right to do so, but it's enough of messing up again and again giving a layer of excellence to things that intelligence cannot support.

[@darnellwebb7609]

Fack not the queen of soul.

[@glencampbell6909]

Ok

[@glencampbell6909]

Thumbnail is aretha when she got old

[@grant1088]

That is not Aretha franklin

[@95KIPPIE]

She tried to be the greatest voice in the world but she wasn’t, that title belong to Miss Whitney Elizabeth Houston. Aretha was knocked up at age 12 by Edward Jordan. End it was sad that her father impregnated a 12 year old girl while married to his wife! That is a messed up family. No wonder she was a demanding diva

[@acajudi100]

Her father was the first son birth father.

[@popetzm1]

I'm sure her singing was greater than yours

[@deniselis5627]

Goes to show occupation doesn't guarantee perfection.