Aretha Franklin
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03/24/1942
Memphis, TN |
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| In 1972, she had a small role in the TV show Room 222. |
| In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
| In 1994, she was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| Columbia Records released her first album The Great Aretha Franklin in 1960. |
| In 1987, she was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| At age 14, she performed and recorded "Precious Lord" before her father's congregation, Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church. |
| In 1986, Michigan law makers declared her voice the state's greatest natural resource. |
| Made her film debut in the1980 movie The Blues Brothers singing "Think." |
