Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin sang together at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center
This week Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin went on stage to perform at a charitable event.
It seems that Condoleezza Rice entertained the audience next to Aretha with two of her hit songs at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center, then playing a selection of Mozart musical pieces.
This event took place in order to raise money for urban children and awareness for music and the arts. In an interview Rice said: “We were just talking and chatting and she said ‘You play, don’t you?’ “And I said, ‘Yes.’ And she said we should do something together.”
Franklin said she had been surprised at how talented Rice was. “All I had seen of Dr Rice was in a political atmosphere. It just seemed foreign that she would be a classical pianist. “She really does play, she’s formidable.”
Rice played piano while Franklin sang I Say A Little Prayer and My Country ‘Tis of Thee.
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