David Remnick Profiles Aretha Franklin
"Her genius, her central place in American music and spirit, is undeniable."
David Remnick, The New Yorker’s editor since 1998, has profiled Aretha Franklin for the magazine’s Food and Travel issue. That should be enough to get you interested, but if not, he also emailed President Obama for his thoughts on the Queen of Soul.
“You can hear Aretha’s influence across the landscape of American music, no matter the genre,” Obama told Remnick. “What other artist had that kind of impact? Dylan. Maybe Stevie, Ray Charles. The Beatles and the Stones—but, of course, they’re imports.
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