Recording artist and multiple Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. She will perform on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The event will be free and no tickets are needed but seats for the general public will be limited to approximately 1,000, on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the concert. Those guests who will need reserved handicapped seating and/or parking are asked to make arrangements in advance. Please call 315-859-4529.
Known to the music world as "The Queen of Soul," Franklin is the 2005 recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom honor (the U.S.A.'s highest honor), 17 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Grammy Living Legend Award. On January 3, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In February 2008 Franklin was honored by MusiCares -- a charity of The Recording Academy -- as its 2008 Person of The Year in a tribute in Los Angeles two nights before the 50th GRAMMY Awards.
Her distinctive soulful vocal style has graced the music charts for nearly five decades. Franklin has spent much of her recording career at Arista, where she was signed in 1980 by Clive Davis, Arista founder, chairman and CEO, and executive producer of many of her albums.
Known to music-lovers around the world as simply "Aretha," she has achieved global recognition, influencing generations of singers from Janis Joplin and Chaka Khan, to Natalie Cole and Mary J. Blige. While Franklin's live performances have touched the hearts of millions since she began her musical journey as a gospel-singing child prodigy, it is her rich legacy of recordings that are a testament to her talent.
Dozens of chart-topping records have established Franklin as a cultural icon, with eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best R&B Vocal Female between 1967 and 1974. Included in her litany of classics are "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)," "Respect," "Baby I Love You," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Chain Of Fools," "Think," "Don't Play That Song," "Freeway Of Love," and dozens of others from a list of more than 100 singles that have made the charts.
Included on that list of singles – and her 50-plus original studio and live albums – are numerous duets and collaborations, especially during Franklin's Arista years, when Clive Davis regularly paired her with the greatest names of all time. These included artists whose careers paralleled Franklin's, while others, notably in the '90s and '00s, were younger artists influenced by her. In 2007 Arista released Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With The Queen, a compilation of 16 duets by Franklin with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Elton John and Mariah Carey. The tracks span virtually the entirety of her Arista years, from 1981's "Love All The Hurt Away," a duet with singer-guitarist George Benson, all the way to today, on brand-new unreleased 2007 recordings of two new duets: "Put You Up On Game" with American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino and "What Y'All Came To Do" with 28-year-old John Legend.
The Sacerdote Series is named in recognition of a significant gift from the family of Alex Sacerdote, a 1994 Hamilton graduate. Previous Great Names at Hamilton speakers include Al Gore, Tom Brokaw, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Madeleine Albright, Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 1998, jazz and blues singer/musician B.B. King was the first artist to appear as part of the series.
Known to the music world as "The Queen of Soul," Franklin is the 2005 recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom honor (the U.S.A.'s highest honor), 17 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Grammy Living Legend Award. On January 3, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In February 2008 Franklin was honored by MusiCares -- a charity of The Recording Academy -- as its 2008 Person of The Year in a tribute in Los Angeles two nights before the 50th GRAMMY Awards.
Her distinctive soulful vocal style has graced the music charts for nearly five decades. Franklin has spent much of her recording career at Arista, where she was signed in 1980 by Clive Davis, Arista founder, chairman and CEO, and executive producer of many of her albums.
Known to music-lovers around the world as simply "Aretha," she has achieved global recognition, influencing generations of singers from Janis Joplin and Chaka Khan, to Natalie Cole and Mary J. Blige. While Franklin's live performances have touched the hearts of millions since she began her musical journey as a gospel-singing child prodigy, it is her rich legacy of recordings that are a testament to her talent.
Dozens of chart-topping records have established Franklin as a cultural icon, with eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best R&B Vocal Female between 1967 and 1974. Included in her litany of classics are "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)," "Respect," "Baby I Love You," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Chain Of Fools," "Think," "Don't Play That Song," "Freeway Of Love," and dozens of others from a list of more than 100 singles that have made the charts.
Included on that list of singles – and her 50-plus original studio and live albums – are numerous duets and collaborations, especially during Franklin's Arista years, when Clive Davis regularly paired her with the greatest names of all time. These included artists whose careers paralleled Franklin's, while others, notably in the '90s and '00s, were younger artists influenced by her. In 2007 Arista released Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With The Queen, a compilation of 16 duets by Franklin with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Elton John and Mariah Carey. The tracks span virtually the entirety of her Arista years, from 1981's "Love All The Hurt Away," a duet with singer-guitarist George Benson, all the way to today, on brand-new unreleased 2007 recordings of two new duets: "Put You Up On Game" with American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino and "What Y'All Came To Do" with 28-year-old John Legend.
The Sacerdote Series is named in recognition of a significant gift from the family of Alex Sacerdote, a 1994 Hamilton graduate. Previous Great Names at Hamilton speakers include Al Gore, Tom Brokaw, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Madeleine Albright, Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 1998, jazz and blues singer/musician B.B. King was the first artist to appear as part of the series.
