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Aretha Franklin
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2. Aretha Franklin
The Queen of Soul honed her incredible voice in the choir of the New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit where her father, Rev. Franklin, was famously a preacher. By the time she was fourteen, she had signed a record deal with Checker Records and featured on gospel vocal recordings of her father's sermons.
