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Aretha Franklin
born 1942
Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Born in Memphis and raised in Detroit in the house of her father, a preacher whose church drew Sam Cooke and Mahalia Jackson to the living room. She was singing gospel solos at twelve and recorded Respect at twenty-four, rearranging Otis Redding's song into something else entirely.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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