Aretha Franklin
Top 7 in Top 10 Best Singers of All Time
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was a singer, composer, and pianist from the United States. She has been dubbed the "Queen of Soul" and has twice been ranked ninth on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time." Franklin is one of the best-selling music performers from the second half of the twentieth century to the present, with global sales of over 75 million records.
Aretha Franklin's career took off with her hit song Respect in 1967, and the attention helped everyone recognize how amazing her vocal talents and other songs were. It didn't take long for her contemporaries to refer to her as "The Queen of Soul." Even in 1998, she was still chart-topping and delivering gold records.
To demonstrate her talent, she has 112 Billboard charting songs, 18 Grammy Awards, and has become one of the best-selling music artists of all time, selling over 75 million albums worldwide. She is also the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She's also in almost every other music hall of fame.
