Desperate for a hit, Aretha travels to Muscle Shoals in 1967 to record her first album with Atlantic Records. After suffering the loss of her surrogate mother, Little Re braves her first solo in 1953, in her father’s, C.L. Franklin, church.
Chain of Fools (feat. Cynthia Erivo) — Genius: Aretha Cast (Music From the National Geographic Series)
(1967, Chicago) Aretha Franklin is crowned the Queen of Soul; Aretha talks to the press after preforming.