Singer, Actress
25 March 1942 to 16 August 2018
An American singer who came to be known as ‘The Queen of Soul’, Franklin won 18 Grammy awards over a prolific and genre-defining career. Her music appeared in countless films from Goodfellas (1990) to Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), and she notably appeared Mrs Murphy in The Blues Brothers (1980) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998).
