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www.talentsearchradio.com Aretha Franklin has embraced music since a very young age and started playing piano at the age of five. Many felt she was a child prodigy due to her growing talent of piano playing and singing. Her music influences started at a young age with her mother and father. Her mother was a gospel singer and homemaker and her father was a Baptist Preacher who gained national renown via radio and television exposure. Because of that his church services had visiters by famous blues singers and musicians such as Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and Billie Holiday. Since Aretha was active in the church playing piano and singing she had much exposure to many of these famous people. Her father was so well known that even Dr. Martin Luther King visited the church and became friends with the whole family including Aretha. She has won 18 Grammys and at one time was the best-selling female artist of all time. She was the first woman to have been 'inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.'