11 hours agoWhen Barack Obama wept with the song of the Queen of Soul who died today
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)It was the moment when the queen of the Soul made a president cry. After half a century after she donated her most powerful songs to the world, Aretha Franklin called all her vocal greatness when she sang in 2015 after Barack Obama was elected president. It was the 38th anniversary of Kennedy Center Honors Gala when Franklin [...]
It was the 38th anniversary of Kennedy Center Honors Gala when Franklin entered the scene wearing a long wool coat and carrying a bag. She sat down on the piano and began singing “You Make Me Feel Like” and this caused Obama to wipe a tear out of his eye along with the first lady. The coauthor of the Carole King song, however, jumped on his feet in amazement at the emotional depth of Aretha Franklin, writes Inseder.
A year later asked by the magazine “Vogue” for the evening of that Gala concert, she forgot about the vocal that she had achieved, she had said that “we should get out of that coat, I felt her”, Franklin said.
In September of the same year Franklin had sung in Philadelphia, where he sang “Nesun Dorma” songs this song he also sang with at the Grammy Awards ceremony.
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