Even Beyonce found out the hard way after mistakenly introducing Tina Turner as “the queen” at the 2008 Grammys. Aretha would respond in a statement, “I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce, however I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.”
Oops! But Aretha had a point. Rolling Stone crowned her “The Greatest Singer of All Time” in 2010 with her four-octave speaker-blasting voice that dominated the charts for nearly 60 years, with epic hits including Respect, I Say A Little Prayer and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.
But for all her diva antics – dropping fur coats on the floor and tearing her wig off midperformance – Aretha came from great tragedy, including losing her mother to a heart attack when she was nine and finding herself pregnant with her first son Clarence at age 12 to local playboy Edward Jordan.
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