Aretha Franklin Dead At 76

“Dubbed the Queen of Soul in 1967, Franklin loomed over culture in several monumental ways. The daughter of a preacher man, she was born with one of pop’s most commanding and singular voices, one that could move from a sly, seductive purr to a commanding gospel roar. … For more than five decades, [she] was a singular presence in pop music, a symbol of strength, women’s liberation and the civil rights movement.”