Aretha Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling female artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.
Franklin has been honored throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which she became the first female performer to be inducted.
She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Franklin is listed in at least two all-time lists on Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, in which she placed number 9.
She is listed as number 1 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time
Royal wrote:So she was like the "beyonce" but with a soul.
She was like the "beyonce" but without Beyonce and with a soul.
True.
But I fail to understand how Rolling Stone could rate her above this more modern superstar with extraordinary vocal range and enormous flexibility across genres:
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins. I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, put it in your pool?' Miley Cyrus