LEGACY OF LOVE Part 5: Meeting Aretha Before she was the Queen of Soul, she was a little girl playing piano and singing in a beautiful house just one street away. Smokey Robinson remembers being friends with Aretha Franklin’s brother Cecil—and being curious enough about their grand home to want to see what was inside. Then he heard Aretha at the piano. That childhood introduction became the beginning of a friendship that would last for decades. Two kids from Detroit, long before the world knew their names. #LegacyOfLove #SmokeyRobinson #ArethaFranklin #Motown #QueenOfSoul