Where To Watch Funeral Service Aretha Franklin

seven:19 p.1000. ET, August 31, 2018

Our live coverage of Aretha Franklin's funeral has concluded. Scroll through the posts below to see the highlights of the Queen of Soul's star-studded remembrance.

6:56 p.m. ET, August 31, 2018

Franklin's casket escorted out of church equally her vocal "Climbing College Mountains" plays

Aretha Franklin's casket was escorted out of Detroit'due south Greater Grace Temple after a virtually eight-hour funeral service filled with performances by superstar singers and remarks by friends and old presidents.

Mourners fabricated their manner through the center of the church as Jennifer Holliday and the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir performed Franklin's hit "Climbing Higher Mountains."

Franklin volition be entombed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

7:nineteen p.m. ET, August 31, 2018

Stevie Wonder performs "As" in moving tribute

Stevie Wonder began his moving tribute to Aretha Franklin by playing the harmonica before singing, "Every bit."

"The reason we are here today is considering of love -- because of how much we beloved this woman," he said.

Wonder encouraged mourners to call up today's remarks and that the "greatest gift that we accept been given in life itself is dearest."

"What needs to happen today not merely in this nation, but throughout the globe, is that we demand to brand love peachy once more because black lives do affair, because all lives exercise matter. And if we love God, then we know truly it is our love that will make things matter when we make dearest great again. That is what Aretha said throughout her life."

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Note: The post has been updated to reflect that Stevie Wonder performed "As" at Aretha Franklin's funeral.

half-dozen:fifteen p.m. ET, August 31, 2018

Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. delivers a soulful eulogy

Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr., the senior pastor of Salem Baptist Church building, said to understand legendary vocalizer Aretha Franklin is to know her father, C.50. Franklin.

"He put her on a foundation so that she could rock steady, baby. That's what he did," Williams said.

He continued:

"You may not know nearly it. Just I remember like it was yesterday, the flack, the criticism. How they talked well-nigh him, just because he wanted his daughter to live her life and to be who she came to be. He own't no preacher. How tin can he be a preacher and he preaching the gospel and she's singing the blues? Back in that mean solar day and time, oh, how they talked about him. Everybody had thumbs down on C.L. Franklin, preaching the gospel and letting his daughter sing the blues."

C.L. Franklin was a superstar before his daughter became one. His unique fashion of preaching drew such a wide audience that his sermons were sold in record stores, and pastors around the nation rescheduled their Lord's day evening services to avoid competing with his pop radio show. Ane preaching critic described his vox as "explosive and filled with a river of music."

5:52 p.k. ET, August 31, 2018

Georgetown professor slams Trump: "She worked to a higher place you. She worked beyond you"

Michael Eric Dyson, professor of sociology at Georgetown University, sharply criticized President Trump over his comment that Aretha Franklin worked for him in the wake of her death.

This isn't the first time Trump got some flack over that remark today -- Rev. Al Sharpton did it besides.

Speaking of President Trump, Dyson said, "this orangish bogeyman had the nerve to say she worked for him. Yous lugubrious leech, you dopey doppelgänger of deceit and deviance, you lethal liar, you dimwitted dictator, you foolish fascist -- she ain't work for yous. She worked above y'all. She worked across you. Get your preposition right."

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five:45 p.1000. ET, August 31, 2018

Jennifer Hudson belts out "Amazing Grace"

Two-time Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson paid tribute to Aretha Franklin with a stunning rendition of "Amazing Grace."

Her performance drew mourners to their feet, while others raised their arms in praise.

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4:55 p.m. ET, August 31, 2018

Isiah Thomas remembers how Aretha Franklin befriended his mom long before they met

Isiah Thomas, a former NBA player with the Detroit Pistons and longtime friend of Aretha Franklin'southward, spoke of how she welcomed him to Detroit with open up arms, taught him how to deal with celebrity, to pay his bills, and most of all, how she was always a strong, constant presence for his mother -- even before the two women met.

Growing upward, "The music, 'I Say a Niggling Prayer for You,' meant a lot to the states," Thomas said, telling a story how his female parent would hum the lyrics in the kitchen while his father was out of a task.

Later, when Franklin would sit next to his mother at Pistons' games, Thomas would look upward at them and "wonder if they knew how many nights they got my mom through and how many tears she shed listening to Aretha's music."

He added: "And to take my mom sitting right adjacent to Aretha in the stadium was such a powerful and inspiring moment for me."

iv:31 p.m. ET, Baronial 31, 2018

Filmmaker Tyler Perry describes how his first conversation with Franklin went

Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry grew upwards listening to his mother blast Aretha Franklin'south songs on the radio. Perry was able to gauge his female parent's mood that twenty-four hours by the songs she played, he said.

Franklin had get a staple in his household, fifty-fifty though he had never met her. It came as a surprise i solar day when the music icon called him out of the blue.

He explained that Franklin introduced herself and said she loved Madea -- an elderly woman portrayed by Perry in a series of films and stage plays.

Perry then asked, "Well, you know she's not real, right?"

Franklin snapped dorsum and said, "I don't care. I desire to talk to her." Then Perry responded in his Madea vox and said, "Hello."

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4:32 p.m. ET, August 31, 2018

Fantasia kicks off her shoes and sings gospel

From CNN'southward Chloe Melas

Fantasia Barrino-Taylor brought downwards the house with a powerful operation of "Precious Lord, Take My Hand." Franklin recorded a rendition of the song in 1956. Information technology was said to exist one of Martin Luther King Jr.'south favorite songs. She went on to lead the choir with a version of Carole King's 1971 hit "You've Got a Friend."

Before Barrino-Taylor began to sing, she said she wanted to take her shoes off and that she didn't recall Franklin would listen.

Barrino-Taylor has been a fan of Franklin since she was a footling girl and recently said that the first cassette she e'er bought was of Aretha Franklin.