David Ritz presents Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin Author: David Ritz Narrator: Brad Raymond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This "comprehensive and illuminating" biography of the Queen of Soul (USA Today) was hailed by Rolling Stone as "a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She continued to evolve for decades, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions. Again and again, Aretha stubbornly found a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continued to build. Her hold on the crown was tenacious, and in Respect, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture.