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VIDEO: Kelly Clarkson's favorite singer Aretha Franklin taught her 'it's OK to cry'
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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."

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