Pulitzer Prize administrator Dana Canedy specifically highlighted Aretha Franklin “for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.”
had “America’s greatest voice” following her death in August 2018, and wrote about her ability to reach people.
“This woman ain’t entertainment,” Luther Vandross, Franklin’s friend and producer, said in 1982, according to the publication. “She’s done opened the books to my life and told everybody. Like Roberta Flack used to say in ‘Killing Me Softly,’ ‘I thought he found my letters and read them all out loud.’ She was the spokesperson for a lot of people and how they feel.
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