Clive Davis Pays Tribute To ‘The Ultimate Natural Woman’

Rollingstone reports that Clive Davis remembered Aretha Franklin as “the ultimate natural woman,” a “singer’s singer” and a “musician’s musician.” He did so at the Queen of Soul’s star-studded funeral in Detroit on Friday.
Davis worked closely with Franklin for more than 30 years. He had a hand in many of her late-career successes. he recalled, “I signed her to Arista Records, and five years turned into more than three decades.” During this period, Franklin experienced a commercial resurgence, scoring hits throughout the Eighties and again in the Nineties.