# Aretha Franklin **Domain:** Music / Civic ceremony **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Aretha Franklin** was an American singer and civil-rights figure who performed “My Country, 'Tis of Thee” at Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009, immediately before the presidential oath sequence. ## Significance Her performance belongs to the public symbolism of the inauguration. The article preserves it as a cultural datum while explicitly withholding any claim that it was connected to Bitcoin, Cicada 3301, or the subsequent federal cybersecurity review. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee program, Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668733/) ## Routes [[wiki/Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration|Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration]] · [[wiki/January 9 2009 Cluster|January 9 2009 Cluster]] · [[wiki/Cicada 3301|Cicada 3301]]