Aretha Franklin Prom will explore "the heart of who she was"

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Jules Buckley doesn't remember p as of the first t time he heard Aretha Franklin.

It could have been on "That's Soul Volume 1" - one of many compilation albums vinyl that he looted from his father's collection as a child. But it could also have been Franklin's stunning performance in the movie Think in The Blues Brothers, which he watched with his brothers in the family living room.

“But the main thing that I remember when I was a very small child was that every time something from her appeared, it sounded so much better than any previous track,” the musician says.

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"That was an emotional response, and I still get that every time I hear his voice."

The effect has not abated in the past three years, as he has scheduled a concert of Franklin's music for the BBC Proms, which he will conduct on Monday.

This is the latest in a long line of groundbreaking Proms from Buckley, which has already brought the sounds of Ibiza, grime, Nina Simone and Quincy J ones at the Royal Albert Hall.

A Grammy-winning musician, he is known for incorporating pop music into his projects and counts Arctic Monkeys, Massive Attack and Stormzy among his former collaborators.

But despite all that experience, he's still nervous when starting a new project.

“Normally you strip naked and run screaming through a field,” he laughs. . "And then once you get it all figured out, you go back to Spotify or iTunes and you start a long process of listening to music, playing it, and watching it."

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