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MUSCLE SHOALS-Grammy Award winning Artist, Academy Award winning Actress, and Best-Selling Author Jennifer Hudson recently visited FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hudson was in town as part of the promotional tour for the movie Respect which will be released in August of this year.
Hudson is the lead star in Respect, the biopic of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, being released on August 13, 2021, in theatres.
The movie Respect Find Out What It Means set for release in August of 2021 to theaters around the country starring Hudson and directed by Liesl Tommy follows the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of Franklin’s journey to find her voice.
According to the FAME Studios website, FAME Music was established in 1959 in Florence, Alabama and has gone on to be the heartbeat of the Muscle Shoals Sound with entities including FAME Publishing, FAME Recording Studios, FAME Records and Muscle Shoals Records. FAME moved to Muscle Shoals in 1961. FAME has worked in the studio with some of the Greatest artists in Rock music history. Artists such as Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Otis Redding, the Osmonds, Jerry Reed, Alabama, Mac Davis, the Gatlin Brothers, Bobbie Gentry and many others.
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