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He performed at the Apollo.

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She performed at the Apollo.

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He played at the Cotton Club almost every night.

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She performed at Carnegie Hall.

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She sang at Carnegie Hall.

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He performed Black, Brown, and Beige at Carnegie Hall.

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He performed at Carnegie Hall.

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The song Respect was used to fight for rights by both black civil rights and women's rights.

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She often played free concerts for activists. I think being an activist is very hard, having a free concert would be such a breather for them.

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She NEVER played for a segregated audience.

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Sometimes Aretha played the piano and sang at the same time.

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She was the first woman to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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She was nicknamed the "Queen of Soul"

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Her father was the head of a church that Dr. Martin Luther King, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats and civil rights leaders attended.

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She helped the Civil Rights Movement by doing benefit concerts.

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Aretha Franklin was a famous black singer.

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Aretha wanted to make a difference and for everyone to be treated equal. She inspired us to think, love and respect ourselves and one another.

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piano

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They probably didn't share her radio speech because they knew she had a powerful voice and they thought more people would get inspired and protest more.

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Think
Respect
Young, Gifted, and Black
Natural Woman
Spanish Harlem

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1942 - born
1960 - New York City
2018 - died

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She helped other black performers by inspiring them and demanding rights like hotels and non-segregated audiences.

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She demanded that there was no colored or white seating. She also demanded to receive equal pay and hotels to stay in if those things did not happen she cancelled the show.

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She wanted to be a dancer, but ended up being a singer. She joined Chick Webb's band even though he didn't think he needed a singer, only instruments. Ella Fitzgerald's voice was her instrument.

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Ella Fitzgerald made any song swing.

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About A-Tisket, A-Tasket: "I was picturing that she turned a nursery rhyme into a huge hit. Her voice was doing scatty bee bop. Like a leaf on a breeze means her voice drifted into unexpected places. The path of a leaf blowing in the wind usually goes back and forth. Maybe her voice is tumbling around too."

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voice

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How High the Moon
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Summertime
Stompin at the Savoy

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1917 - born
1933 - New York City
1996 - died

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Duke Ellington fought for justice by having benefit concerts.

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He refused to play in front of segregated audiences in the 1960s. That made it so that people had to let Black people into concerts or they couldn't hear him and they wanted to hear him very much

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He made a a show called "Black, Brown and Beige". This might of helped cause people could listen to his "Black, Brown and Beige" and help them understand what Black people were going though.

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piano

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Duke found other musicians and formed a band.

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Duke Ellington used to think that baseball was way funner than piano, so he quit piano. Then he heard people playing jazzy tunes on the piano he changed his mind and thought how can I make the jazzy tunes. He really wanted to do jazzy tunes on piano so he practiced so hard this time and got super good at it until his tunes were the best in the neighborhood.

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Louis Armstrong went to juvenile detention and even though he is there he finds people to help him learn music, singing and playing the instruments.  The people realized how beautiful his music was and let him do more of it.

Louis had MANY mentors and he practiced really hard. People in juvenile detention and Joe Oliver and the people he played in bands with and many other people (I can't name them all.)

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Louis did errands for Joe.  That means he really likes Joe and he is willing to do anything to get taught by him.

Louis likes to experiment a lot and if someone teaches him something, he might make something new out of it.

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It Don't Mean a Thing
The Mooche
Take the A Train
Black, Brown, and Beige: Come Sunday
Mood Indigo

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1899 - born
1923 - New York City
1974 - died