gospel, moving into secular moving, into r & b and into soul, into pop, into opera, and throughout her life sort of bobbing and weaving between different types of music. >> yeah. you made a great point just a little bit earlier that she was the queen of so much more than soul. one of the greatest artists to prove that a voice that was steeped in black music traditions like gospel and soul could then go on to conquer the worlds of pop and even perform an operatic contest. i was actually a recording artist in 1980s. i was in a band signed to motown. even then we spent time dissecting the vocal ability and the performances of aretha franklin in her later hits like "freeway of love" and others. she had a way of taking apart a song and bringing power to it and knowing exactly when to sing the heck out of it and exactly