translated from Spanish: Goodbye to the “Queen of Soul”: Areta Franklin, the greatest of all times

singer a musical phenomenon that crossed gener, racial and musical barriers or, they are words that are associated with the figure of Areta Franklin, who began his vocal career as a teenager, singing hymns of the Gospel in the Church from his father in Detroit. From these humble beginnings, he came to the heights of stardom, achieving his first national hit in 1967 with a version that is not without controversy, of his “Respect”.
Since then, the artist was included in 77 Hot 100 lists, and has obtained an astonishing number of 18 Grammy nominations 44 that has been considered. In 1987, two decades after her first number one, Franklin became the first woman to enter of the fame of the Rock & Roll Hall, and was later named the biggest ever singer by Rolling Stone.
The year 2010, the singer canceled a series of concerts once he decided to undergo surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Later, speaking of surgery in 2011, cited his doctor saying that “it would add 15 to 20 years” to his life.
On that occasion it denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as it was rumored.  Franklin May 19, 2011, made a comeback show at the Chicago Theatre. But now for may 2013, canceled two performances to deal with a medical treatment that is not reported. Later in the same month, it canceled three concerts in June and planned to return to in July. Adding a series of presentations that were cancelled in the weeks after.
The publicist Gwendolyn Quinn, told The Associated Press through a family statement that Franklin died on Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at his home in Detroit. The statement said that “the official cause of death was due to the progression of pancreatic cancer of neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by the personal singer, Dr. Philip Phillips of the Cancer Institute oncologist Karmanos ‘ in Detroit.
The death of the singer, coincides with the death of another large music like Elvis Presley, who died on August 16, 1977, at Graceland.

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