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Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin in Genius: Aretha.
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Alison de Souza In Los Angeles, Alison de Souza
It takes a special performer to play Aretha Franklin, the legendary American singer who embodied soul music in the 1960s and beyond.
And the creators of the television biopic Genius: Aretha, now streaming on Disney+, felt that Cynthia Erivo - an award-winning English actress, singer and songwriter - was the only one who could do it justice.
