found: Her Get it right [SR] p1983:label (Aretha Franklin)
found: New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.(Franklin, Aretha; b. Mar. 25, 1942, Memphis, Tenn.; soul singer)
found: LC data base, 8/16/84(hdg.: Franklin, Aretha)
found: Rivera, Ursula. Aretha Franklin, 2002:ECIP galley (Aretha Louise Franklin, b. Mar. 25, 1942, Memphis, Tenn.)
found: Grove music online, Mar. 12, 2013(Franklin, Aretha; b. Mar. 25, 1942, Memphis; American soul singer, pianist, and songwriter)
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Franklin, Aretha; Aretha Louise Franklin; pianist, soul musician / singer, popular sInger, rhythm and blues musician / singer; born March 26, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States; first recorded with the Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church at age fourteen, first album was released by Chess Records (1956); signed with Atlantic Records (1967), universally known as the "Queen of Soul"; won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance Female every year between 1967 and 1974; signed with the Arista label (1980); the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987); awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), won the Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance in 2003 and 2005)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 16, 2018(Aretha Franklin; b. Aretha Louise Franklin, Mar. 25, 1942, Memphis; d. Thursday [Aug. 16, 2018], Detroit, aged 76; universally acclaimed as the "Queen of Soul" and one of America's greatest singers in any style)
