Barack and Michelle Obama, Quincy Jones, NASA, More Pay Tribute to Aretha Franklin

16.08.2018 Comment Views: 30

Aretha Franklin, 1973 (Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

Today, August 16, Aretha Franklin died at the age of 76 from superior pancreatic most cancers of the neuroendocrine sort. Figures from the music world and past have continued to share tributes to the Queen of Soul. Barack and Michelle Obama wrote, “America has no royalty. But we do have a chance to earn something more enduring.” They continued, “Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect.”

The NASA Twitter account additionally posted about Franklin and Asteroid 249516 Aretha, which was named in her honor. Below, see posts from the Obamas, Quincy Jones, Rep. John Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Ringo Starr, and extra.

Read Pitchfork’s Afterword function “How Aretha Franklin Earned Her Crown as the Queen of Soul,” in addition to the Sunday Review of Spirit in the Dark. Find more on Aretha Franklin and her legacy here.