Genius: Aretha
Amazing Grace
S3 · E6Original air time
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 3 / 6
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Original network/platform
- National Geographic
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Overview
Aretha records her best-selling live Gospel album "Amazing Grace" in 1972 at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, ignoring her sibling's pleas to record instead at New Bethel with their father, C.L. Franklin. Little Re discovers that she's pregnant with her second child, forcing her to leave school. While pregnant, she records her first album at New Bethel in 1956.
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Genius dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships.
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