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Aretha Franklin Spent Her Childhood in This Michigan House
Aretha was one of my favorites; not just because of her music, but also her personality and the way she handled people.
Sassy, smart, and soulful.
In the past, I've showed you two other homes she lived in: where she was as a baby and where she lived as a rich, successful songstress.
Now see the Michigan house she lived in, growing up as a teenager.
Even though she hadn't lived in the house for years afterward, she still owned it and refused to put it up for sale, content to let it just sit empty. After paying a visit to her old Detroit neighborhood and looking once again at the house she lived in with her father – the Reverend Clarence Franklin – she soon put it on the market.
Aretha was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942; when she was two, the family moved to New York.
In 1947 when she was five, her father acquired the position of pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, and the family