Back on Top
Later that same year, she released her album “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism,” which went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. Aretha Franklin was definitely back on top before another relatively quiet phase of her career. However, in 1993, she was invited to sing the Bill Clinton inauguration.
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The next year, she earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors. Aretha Franklin was the center around several tributes and documentaries as the decade progressed. In 2000, she reprised her role in the Blues Brothers and released the gold-selling album “A Rose is Still a Rose.” Luciano Pavarotti was too sick to accept his awards, so Franklin stood in for him with her rendition of “Nessun Dorma.”