Aretha Franklin has been posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930.
Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930.
Franklin's inclusion into the exclusive club re-confirms the impact her music — and voice — had and continues to have on the world. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of Top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of" A Natural Woman," to the wised-up"Chain of Fools" to her unstoppable call for"Respect," transforming Otis Redding's song into a classic worldwide anthem — especially for the feminist and civil rights movements — making it one of the most recognizable and heard songs of all-time.
Rolling Stone ranked Franklin No.1 on its list of the Top 100 singers and she was also named one of the 20 most important entertainers of the 20th century by Time magazine, which celebrated her"mezzo-soprano, the gospel growls, the throaty howls, the girlish vocal tickles, the swoops, the dives, the blue-sky high notes, the blue-sea low notes. Female vocalists don't get the credit as innovators that male instrumentalists do. They should.
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