"May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace," the Obamas wrote. Barack Obama's 2009 Presidential Inauguration was a generation-defining moment and no one was more suited to bring it home than the ...

Remember Aretha Franklin's 2009 Inauguration hat? It's not gone. Jan. 18, 2013 — -- Jan. 20, 2009 was an historic day. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.

A long time ago in (2009) in an America far, far away (this one), Aretha Franklin, who died today at 76, performed at Barack Obama’s first presidential inauguration. Moments before Obama was swo ...

Obama scored a historic election win ... Donald Trump and Wednesday's inauguration Music legend Aretha Franklin sang My Country 'Tis Of Thee during the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2009.

Dec. 17, 2008, 3:34 PM EST Aretha Franklin will sing, Pastor Rick Warren will pray and Yo-Yo Ma will play the cello during President-elect Barack Obama’s Inauguration. Congressional leaders on ...

Aretha Franklin punched her fist in the air ... It was an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day concert, not an inaugural event, but thoughts of Obama's historic day ahead were on everyone's mind.

Aretha Franklin performed at President Jimmy ... In 2013, as Biden was sworn in as VP for the second time during Obama’s inauguration, the former Delaware senator witnessed Beyoncé’s assured ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Aretha Franklin says the cold and wind made it difficult to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington. "Mother Nature was ...

After the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died in 2018 at ... bow hat that Franklin wore to his first inauguration. Groundbreaking on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s South ...

It was the hat that launched a thousand memes. When Aretha Franklin stole the show at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the music legend — who died Thursday morning at the age of 76 — wore a ...

“Trump, who knew Franklin leaned liberal and had sung for Obama ... Says She Hopes to Make Aretha Franklin ‘Proud’ in Playing Her Idol in Respect Trump’s inauguration became a major ...

The Smithsonian Museum wants Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day ... belted “America the Beautiful” at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration on January 20, with the Los Angeles Times ...