Desperate for a hit, Aretha travels to Muscle Shoals in 1967 to record her first album with Atlantic Records. After suffering the loss of her surrogate mother, Little Re braves her first solo in 1953, in her father's, C.L. Franklin, church.

Genius Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Aretha: Respect
• s03e02 - Aretha: Until the Real Thing Comes Along
• s03e03 - Aretha: Do Right Woman
• s03e04 - Aretha: Unforgettable
• s03e05 - Aretha: Young, Gifted and Black
• s03e06 - Aretha: Amazing Grace
• s03e07 - Aretha: Chain of Fools
• s03e08 - Aretha: No One Sleeps

Genius Show Summary

Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Einstein-an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate-unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe.