Aretha: From These Roots
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375500332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The famously press-shy Aretha is a free-speaking anecdote spinner and a blunt sharer of opinions of coworkers and fellow artists. --Rickey Wright. Franklin, find her in a more expansive mood. Her reminiscences of those days, and of the conquests that followed when she moved to the forefront of the soul revolution after signing to Atlantic, are obviously still fresh for her. A voice that many consider the world's finest, a strikingly individual touch on piano, and an eclectic ear for material combined to
Aretha: From These Roots Thinking This book is quite interesting. Aretha Franklin's decisions helped to achieve her goals regardless of the opposition. She answers any unanswerable questions.. "Five Stars" according to DJR. GREAT !!!!!!!!! BOOK !!!!!!!!! GOOD BUY. "I enjoyed it immensely" according to Karen Newman. Very interesting and spicy account of Aretha's life story. I enjoyed it immensely.
Aretha emerges as a triumphant woman of rare wit, willing to share with us her passion for great music, great food, and great love affairs. But her father had a broader vision and helped Aretha enter the field of pop and jazz. Now, in her own moving words, the woman behind the myth is revealed. In rich detail, she paints a vivid picture of a Detroit long gone: the storefront churches, the basement parties, the explosive R&B shows. The result is a captivating self-portrait of one of this century's most fascinating artists, an Aretha Franklin as real as the songs she sings. For the first time anywhere, Aretha tells her story--the glorious triumphs as well as the heartbreaking pain. Six years later, after only a few minor hits, she switched to Atlantic, where she shook the musical world to its roots. By age eighteen, she was under contract to Columbia Records. Franklin, "the man with the million-dollar voice"; Sam Cooke, the man of her dreams; her singing sisters, Erma and Carolyn, and her manager-brother, Cecil; her famous colleagues--Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Luther Vandross, and Luciano Pavarotti--as well as some famous rivals. With refreshing candor, Aretha tells it like it is, the way she sees it, the way she lived it. A child prodigy of the golden age of gospel, the daughter of a world-famo