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Aretha Franklin, The Undisputed ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dead At 76

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Aretha Franklin, The Undisputed ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dead At 76

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By Nina Golgowski via https://www.huffingtonpost.com

The Detroit singer is best known for R&B hits like “Respect” and “Think.”

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” whose powerhouse vocal cords revolutionized American music and made her one of the top-selling female musicians of all time, has died at age 76, her publicist told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer, her oncologist confirmed to the AP.

“In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family,” Franklin’s family said in a…

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