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Cynthia Erivo on Aretha and Giving Space to Black and Queer Stories
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The Blues Brothers, came on the radio. And it stuck with Erivo. The next time she remembers hearing Franklin was on the same station that played eclectic music, but it was in an altogether different kind of tune.
It was “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” a feminist banger from the ’80s synth-pop duo Eurythmics that had Franklin and the group’s vocalist Annie Lennox belting lyrics in which women reclaimed their space.“I just remember thinking, Who does this?
Because I recognize the voice again. I think, How does one person do [all] these types of songs, and still, both of them connect with me?
I remember thinking, I wish I could do that. There’s something really special about her voice,” Erivo tells The Advocate.It’s a few decades later,.
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