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Starring 2020 Academy Award® Nominee and Tony®, Emmy® and  Grammy® Award-Winning Cynthia Erivo ("Harriet," "The Color Purple")  as Aretha Franklin GENIUS: ARETHA to Premiere Over Four Nights Beginning Memorial Day,  Monday, May 25, 2020, at 9/8c  GENIUS: ARETHA - FIRST LOOK TEASER |  National Geographic (WASHINGTON, DC - FEB. 7, 2019)  National Geographic and Fox 21 Television Studios will release a first-look, national teaser promo for  GENIUS: ARETHA  during this Sunday's Oscars® telecast airing on ABC. Cynthia Erivo, a 2020 Academy Award®nominee, stars as Aretha Franklin in the third season of the critically acclaimed global anthology series. Set to perform "Stand Up" live during Hollywood's biggest night, Erivo is nominated in two categories: Actress in a Leading Role and Music (Original Song) for the film "Harriet." GENIUS: ARETHA  will premiere over four consecutive nights, beginning...

Raphael Saadiq WASHINGTON, DC -- National Geographic, with Fox 21 Studios and Imagine Television Studios, announced today that Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated musician  Raphael Saadiq  has been tapped to serve as an executive music producer on  GENIUS: ARETHA. Saadiq  is responsible for producing, arranging and recording all of the original song element  GENIUS: ARETHA s within the series featuring live performances. The score will be written and produced by multi-Grammy Award-winner and Academy Award nominee  Terence Blanchard   ("Harriet," " BlacKkKlansman"). The third season of the critically acclaimed global anthology series will premiere over four consecutive nights, beginning Memorial Day,  Monday, May 25, at 9/8c .  GENIUS: ARETHA  will be the first-ever, definitive and only authorized scripted series on the life of Aretha Franklin and will chart how gospel prodigy Little Re became the iconic Areth...