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- ABC News
- December 17, 2018
Kelly Clarkson's favorite singer Aretha Franklin taught her 'it's OK to cry'
The singer said she was shy as a kid and that Aretha Franklin stirred "something inside me that really broke down those barriers that I that I had built up as a child."