The cash will divided up equally between her 4 kids how can it go crazy?
Rest In Peace Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul
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it always does....
I don't even listen to this dude anymore.
My Mother and I handled my Uncles estate, he had no kids who were alive. If he did have an heir (son/daughter) I just don't see how anyone could have got his money.
There may be lawsuits against her estate as far as money owed, but other than that the money goes to the kids.
They are just trying to make Aretha look like an ass. This isn't a Prince situation.
HNIC
List of the performers who will take the mic at Aretha Franklin's memorial next Thursday:
The Four Tops
Gladys Knight
Johnny Gill
Ron Isley
Kiki Sheard
Kurt Carr
Jean Carne
Doug Carn
Ronnie McNeir
L.J. Reynolds
Tasha Page-Lockhart
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dr. Bobby Jones
Jenifer Lewis
George Faison
Angie Stone
Raheem DeVaughn
Gracie Franklin
Eddie Franklin
Victorie Franklin
Santita Jackson
Ralphe Armstrong Band
Kern Brantley Band
Dr. Louis Farrakhan will be attending as a guest.
The event will go down at the Chene Park Amphitheatre in Detroit on August 30.
Performances can be acoustic, track or with the Aretha Franklin combined band.
And, all artists will have to pay for their own air, ground and hotel accommodations.
The Four Tops
Gladys Knight
Johnny Gill
Ron Isley
Kiki Sheard
Kurt Carr
Jean Carne
Doug Carn
Ronnie McNeir
L.J. Reynolds
Tasha Page-Lockhart
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dr. Bobby Jones
Jenifer Lewis
George Faison
Angie Stone
Raheem DeVaughn
Gracie Franklin
Eddie Franklin
Victorie Franklin
Santita Jackson
Ralphe Armstrong Band
Kern Brantley Band
Dr. Louis Farrakhan will be attending as a guest.
The event will go down at the Chene Park Amphitheatre in Detroit on August 30.
Performances can be acoustic, track or with the Aretha Franklin combined band.
And, all artists will have to pay for their own air, ground and hotel accommodations.
Thank you all for your concern
Rest in peace, QUEEN! This is a 1974 clip of Aretha Franklin on the game show, "What's My Line.
A true American Icon, and Legend.
Rest In Peace Beautiful Queen.
Rest In Peace Beautiful Queen.
Her voice tho
The vehicle carrying the casket.
The historic vehicle has also carried the bodies of Franklin’s father Rev. C.L. Franklin in 1984, singer David Ruffin in 1991, and Rosa Parksin 2005.
Aretha Franklin's casket being carried into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
Fans photograph Franklin's casket.
Franklin in her casket.
The part that always makes me cry.
She laid out in that red dress and shoes tho' that's the way to go Queen!!!!
Detroit is going to get a big economic boost this weekend. People are coming from all over the world.
Rest In Peace Queen Aretha.
Rest In Peace Queen Aretha.
Aretha Franklin Will Be Buried in Red Louboutins, Naturally
By Dee Lockett
Photo: PAUL SANCYA/AFP/Getty Images
Tuesday began a week of services honoring the late legend Aretha Franklin, who died at 76 of pancreatic cancer on August 16, leading up to her funeral on Friday at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. After being received at the Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, Franklin’s body was brought to lay in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where fans are invited to attend a public viewing of the Queen of Soul for two days. She arrived at the museum on Tuesday in a gold-plated Promethean casket, dressed head-to-toe in crimson and ruby red — including her nails, lipstick, and high heels, with her ankles crossed to symbolize her poise — as a nod to her being an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a historically black sorority which will also hold a service for Franklin on Tuesday night. “What we wanted to do is be reflective of the Queen,” museum board member Kelly Major Green told the Associated Press. “It’s beautiful. She’s beautiful.” The heels in particular, which are confirmed to be five-inch patent-leather Christian Louboutins (!), Green says, were deliberately chosen by her family to make the statement that “The Queen of Soul is [a] diva to the end.”
Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/Getty Images
Her casket is surrounded by bouquets of pink, white, lavender, gold, and red roses and orchids. “If you ever received flowers from my aunt they would be big, beautiful arrangements,” Franklin’s niece (and potential estate executor), Sabrina Owens, told CNN. “She sent them on birthdays, holidays, and special occasions.” Fans inside who come to pay their respects are treated to her gospel recordings, at the family’s request. According to the Swanson Funeral Home, all funeral arrangements were not instructed by Franklin herself prior to her death. “She never talked about death. She was very much all about life,” director Linda Swanson tells the Detroit Free Press. “She is presented in a way that reflects her life and her legacy. She is, indeed, resplendent in repose, as a queen should be.” Outside of the museum, a pink Cadillac is parked and, during Friday’s funeral service, it will join a full motorcade of pink Cadillacs as a nod to Franklin’s song “Freeway of Love.” (Her body was also driven to the museum in a vintage white 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse, the same one used for her father the Rev. C.L. Franklin’s funeral and Rosa Parks’s funeral.)
By Dee Lockett
Photo: PAUL SANCYA/AFP/Getty Images
Tuesday began a week of services honoring the late legend Aretha Franklin, who died at 76 of pancreatic cancer on August 16, leading up to her funeral on Friday at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. After being received at the Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, Franklin’s body was brought to lay in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where fans are invited to attend a public viewing of the Queen of Soul for two days. She arrived at the museum on Tuesday in a gold-plated Promethean casket, dressed head-to-toe in crimson and ruby red — including her nails, lipstick, and high heels, with her ankles crossed to symbolize her poise — as a nod to her being an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a historically black sorority which will also hold a service for Franklin on Tuesday night. “What we wanted to do is be reflective of the Queen,” museum board member Kelly Major Green told the Associated Press. “It’s beautiful. She’s beautiful.” The heels in particular, which are confirmed to be five-inch patent-leather Christian Louboutins (!), Green says, were deliberately chosen by her family to make the statement that “The Queen of Soul is [a] diva to the end.”
Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/Getty Images
Her casket is surrounded by bouquets of pink, white, lavender, gold, and red roses and orchids. “If you ever received flowers from my aunt they would be big, beautiful arrangements,” Franklin’s niece (and potential estate executor), Sabrina Owens, told CNN. “She sent them on birthdays, holidays, and special occasions.” Fans inside who come to pay their respects are treated to her gospel recordings, at the family’s request. According to the Swanson Funeral Home, all funeral arrangements were not instructed by Franklin herself prior to her death. “She never talked about death. She was very much all about life,” director Linda Swanson tells the Detroit Free Press. “She is presented in a way that reflects her life and her legacy. She is, indeed, resplendent in repose, as a queen should be.” Outside of the museum, a pink Cadillac is parked and, during Friday’s funeral service, it will join a full motorcade of pink Cadillacs as a nod to Franklin’s song “Freeway of Love.” (Her body was also driven to the museum in a vintage white 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse, the same one used for her father the Rev. C.L. Franklin’s funeral and Rosa Parks’s funeral.)
Here’s How You Can Watch Aretha Franklin’s Funeral
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
The funeral for legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin will take place at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, this Friday, and the general public will be able to watch live. Locally, networks including WDIV-TV, WJBK-TV, and WXYZ-TV will air the service in its entirety, while those outside the area will be able to access a livestream from the Associated Press, Rolling Stonereports. Fox News and CNN will also be airing portions of the event, which will include tribute performances by Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Ronald Isley, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Fantasia, and Yolanda Adams, in addition to speeches by Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, actress Cicely Tyson, Clive Davis, Michigan governor Rick Snyder, Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
The funeral for legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin will take place at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, this Friday, and the general public will be able to watch live. Locally, networks including WDIV-TV, WJBK-TV, and WXYZ-TV will air the service in its entirety, while those outside the area will be able to access a livestream from the Associated Press, Rolling Stonereports. Fox News and CNN will also be airing portions of the event, which will include tribute performances by Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Ronald Isley, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Fantasia, and Yolanda Adams, in addition to speeches by Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, actress Cicely Tyson, Clive Davis, Michigan governor Rick Snyder, Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
Aretha Franklin
Madame Tussauds - Washington D.C.
The Schedule for Aretha Franklin’s Funeral Is the Most Optimistic Schedule I’ve Ever Seen in My Entire Black Funeral Life
They gon’ lay Aretha Franklin’s burdens down in Detroit on Friday, Aug. 31. And it’s going to happen in tremendous fashion. Her body has already seen outfit changes fit for a woman whose fashion stylings were as much a part of her charm as her take-no-prisoners attitude about the industry.
Queen Aretha is being sent home to see the King with a funeral fit for a woman whose mark on the community and culture at large has yet to be fully realized. She is the Queen of Soul for a reason. And you don’t get to be the Queen if your legacy ends when you expire. Every accolade and call for appreciation and celebration at her homegoing will be warranted and necessary.
But if you’re going to this here funeral in person, well, I hope you have all of the snacks and make sure to bring plenty of water because while the service is already scheduled to be as long as the Easter Sunday service at a southern Baptist church with a new pastor trying to prove himself (9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.), I’d bet good money that it will last at least 12 hours. And I’m not even being facetious.
Have you seen this schedule? If not, let me share it with you. Here is the full list of speakers and performers slated to appear, according to Detroit’s WDIV4:
Look at that lineup. Imagine who will be in the audience!! Seriously. TD Jakes. Shirley Caesar. Tasha Cobbs. Bishop Paul Morton. Yolanda Adams. Fantasia. Stevie Wonder. Jesse Jackson. Ron Isley. Chaka Khan. Michael Eric Dyson.
Bruh, I said hello to Michael Eric Dyson once. He’s still saying hello back right now. And that was three years ago. I love all of those folks performing with my whole heart. But Shirley Caesar AND Tasha Cobbs-Leonard have FOUR minutes to SING from 12:15 to 12:19??????? A WHOLE SONG? Tasha Cobbs-Leonard has 6-, 7- and 8-minute songs by herself on her latest album, Heart.Passion.Pursuit.
Chaka Khan has 5 minutes? She has runs longer than 5 minutes. On accident. Ask Rufus.
Listen, I’ve been to more funerals than I care to recount at this point. I’ve been to funerals for young people and old. And the one thing they’ve ALL had in common is that they all lasted WAY longer than anybody in attendance expected. Funerals just ... run long. Folks get up to speak and get emotional and singers get folks worked up, which creates extended versions of “This Little Light of Mine.” It happens. I’ve spent four hours at a funeral that I know was supposed to last for one and half hours at the REQUEST of the family. And when folks get to preaching that good word? And folks get to standing up and shouting?
This funeral is happening in Detroit for the Queen of Soul. There is going to be some shouting going on. And I’m not even saying it will start late. Something this important MIGHT start on time, but that first prayer of comfort at 10:20-10:25 a.m. is where I’d imagine a minute-here-and-a-minute-there get added and before anybody knows it, it’s 6:45 p.m. and the service is outlasting Law & Order: SVU marathons, and that’s no easy feat.
I very much look forward to this funeral for the well-earned respects that will be paid to the Queen. I also hope they’re passing out water ’round abouts 7 p.m. because there is no way this is ending at 3 p.m. Considering the vast number of speakers and participants who I’m sure will all get the “be mindful of the schedule” spiel before and during the service, that tight of a schedule seems almost impossible. Once you add in the emotional factor and the number of pastors, politicians and lengthy-song-plus-runs singers involved in a black church for a black icon ... in DETROIT, well, this is the most optimistic funeral schedule ever created. They might need an intermission.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But I say a little prayer because ain’t no way.
They gon’ lay Aretha Franklin’s burdens down in Detroit on Friday, Aug. 31. And it’s going to happen in tremendous fashion. Her body has already seen outfit changes fit for a woman whose fashion stylings were as much a part of her charm as her take-no-prisoners attitude about the industry.
Queen Aretha is being sent home to see the King with a funeral fit for a woman whose mark on the community and culture at large has yet to be fully realized. She is the Queen of Soul for a reason. And you don’t get to be the Queen if your legacy ends when you expire. Every accolade and call for appreciation and celebration at her homegoing will be warranted and necessary.
But if you’re going to this here funeral in person, well, I hope you have all of the snacks and make sure to bring plenty of water because while the service is already scheduled to be as long as the Easter Sunday service at a southern Baptist church with a new pastor trying to prove himself (9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.), I’d bet good money that it will last at least 12 hours. And I’m not even being facetious.
Have you seen this schedule? If not, let me share it with you. Here is the full list of speakers and performers slated to appear, according to Detroit’s WDIV4:
- 9:30-9:50 a.m.: Musical Prelude: Aretha Franklin Orchestra
- 9:50-10:00 a.m.: Lighting of Candles: Swanson Funeral Home, Inc.
- 10:00-10:20 a.m.: Processional: Clergy, Ministers and Family
- 10:20-10:25 a.m.: Prayer of Comfort: Dr. E.L. Branch, Pastor, Third New Hope Church
- 10:25-10:40 a.m.: Scripture of Comfort: 10:25 a.m.: Old Testament: Bishop T.D. Jakes, Potter’s House, Dallas 10:30 a.m.: New Testament: Pastor Solomon Kinloch, Triumph Church; 10:35 a.m.: The Psalm: Bishop P.A. Brooks, Pastor, New St. Paul Tabernacle Church
- 10:40-10:45 a.m.: Musical Tribute: Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir
- 10:45-10:49 a.m.: Musical Tribute: Faith Hill
- 10:49-11:03 a.m.: Remarks: 10:49 a.m.: Brenda Jones, City Council President, 10:51 a.m.: JoAnn Watson, Detroit City Council 10:53 a.m.: Mike Duggan, Mayor, City of Detroit 10:57 a.m.: Governor Rick Snyder, State of Michigan
- 11:03-11:08 a.m.: Musical Tribute: Ariana Grande
- 1108-11:13 a.m.: Musical Tribute: The Clark Sisters
- 11:13-11:18 a.m: Acknowledgements and Condolences: Barbara Sampson
- 11:18-11:23 a.m.: Musical Tribute: The Williams Brothers & Vanessa Bell Armstrong
- 11:23-11:40 a.m.: Family Reflections: Vaughn, Cristal Victorie and Jordan Franklin
- 11:40-11:45 a.m.: Family Musical Tribute: Edward Franklin
- 11:45-11:50 a.m.: Obituary: Sabrina Owens
- 11:50-11:55 a.m.: Musical Tribute: Alice McAllister Tillman
- 11:55-12:00 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Audrey DuBois Harris
- 12:00-12:15 p.m.: Personal Remarks 12:00 p.m.: Eric Holder, Former U.S. Attorney General 12:10 p.m.: Former President, William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton
- 12:15-12:19 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Pastor Shirley Caesar and Tasha Cobbs-Leonard
- 12:19-12:36 p.m.: Personal Reflections 12:19 p.m.: Greg Mathis, Retired Judge, 36th District Court, Detroit, MI 12:23 p.m.: Brenda Lawrence, State Representative, 14th Congressional District 12:27 p.m.: Rev. Donald L. Parsons, Logos Assembly Church, Chicago, IL 12:31 p.m.: Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network
- 12:36-12:41 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Chaka Khan
- 12:41-12:51 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Ron Isley
- 12:51 p.m.: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder/President Rainbow P.U.S.H. Coalition
- 1:00 p.m.: Dr. William J. Barber, II, Pastor, Greenleaf Christian Church, Goldsborough N.C.
- 1:05 p.m.: Rev. James Holley, Retired Pastor, New Light Missionary Baptist Church
- 1:10-1:15 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Fantasia Barrino-Taylor
- 1:15-1:30 p.m: Personal Reflections 1:15 p.m.: Tyler Perry 1:17 p.m.: Cicely Tyson, Actress 1:20 p.m.: Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer, Sony Music 1:25 p.m.: Smokey Robinson, Recording Artist
- 1:30-1:34 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Bishop Paul Morton and Yolanda Adams
- 1:34-1:53 p.m.: Personal Reflections 1:34 p.m.: Mildred Gaddis, Radio Personality 1:38 p.m.: Isaiah Thomas, Former NBA Player, Detroit Pistons 1:42 p.m.: Ron Moten, Personal Friend, Franchise Owner, McDonald’s Restaurants 1:48 p.m.: Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University
- 1:53-2:00 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Bishop Marvin Sapp and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir
- 2:00-2:05 p.m.: Sermonic Selection: Jennifer Hudson
- 2:05-2:35 p.m.: Eulogy: Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr., Pastor, Salem Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA
- 2:35-2:45 p.m.: Musical Tribute: Stevie Wonder joined by National Artists
- 2:45-3:00 p.m.: Recessional: Jennifer Holliday and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir
Look at that lineup. Imagine who will be in the audience!! Seriously. TD Jakes. Shirley Caesar. Tasha Cobbs. Bishop Paul Morton. Yolanda Adams. Fantasia. Stevie Wonder. Jesse Jackson. Ron Isley. Chaka Khan. Michael Eric Dyson.
Bruh, I said hello to Michael Eric Dyson once. He’s still saying hello back right now. And that was three years ago. I love all of those folks performing with my whole heart. But Shirley Caesar AND Tasha Cobbs-Leonard have FOUR minutes to SING from 12:15 to 12:19??????? A WHOLE SONG? Tasha Cobbs-Leonard has 6-, 7- and 8-minute songs by herself on her latest album, Heart.Passion.Pursuit.
Chaka Khan has 5 minutes? She has runs longer than 5 minutes. On accident. Ask Rufus.
Listen, I’ve been to more funerals than I care to recount at this point. I’ve been to funerals for young people and old. And the one thing they’ve ALL had in common is that they all lasted WAY longer than anybody in attendance expected. Funerals just ... run long. Folks get up to speak and get emotional and singers get folks worked up, which creates extended versions of “This Little Light of Mine.” It happens. I’ve spent four hours at a funeral that I know was supposed to last for one and half hours at the REQUEST of the family. And when folks get to preaching that good word? And folks get to standing up and shouting?
This funeral is happening in Detroit for the Queen of Soul. There is going to be some shouting going on. And I’m not even saying it will start late. Something this important MIGHT start on time, but that first prayer of comfort at 10:20-10:25 a.m. is where I’d imagine a minute-here-and-a-minute-there get added and before anybody knows it, it’s 6:45 p.m. and the service is outlasting Law & Order: SVU marathons, and that’s no easy feat.
I very much look forward to this funeral for the well-earned respects that will be paid to the Queen. I also hope they’re passing out water ’round abouts 7 p.m. because there is no way this is ending at 3 p.m. Considering the vast number of speakers and participants who I’m sure will all get the “be mindful of the schedule” spiel before and during the service, that tight of a schedule seems almost impossible. Once you add in the emotional factor and the number of pastors, politicians and lengthy-song-plus-runs singers involved in a black church for a black icon ... in DETROIT, well, this is the most optimistic funeral schedule ever created. They might need an intermission.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But I say a little prayer because ain’t no way.
watchin the funreal now.damn Jessie Jackson look like he next to go.
Its already after 11:30 and they are still working on the 10:00am processional! I would want to be sitting next to the Church Mother with the biggest purse because you know they are gonna have snacks wrapped in aluminum foil...