“Music will save your life,” said Rev James Cleveland to Aretha Franklin who was just nine when her mother died of a heart attack in 1952.

The Chicago pastor and gospel musician sat before a piano with the future star, teaching her some of her first gospel songs.

She would come to see him as one of the biggest influences of her life.

This touching moment is recreated in the new biopic about the soul singer, Respect, out in cinemas on 13 August (the film is out in UK cinemas 10 September).

Starring Skye Dakota Turner as a young Franklin (as an adult, she’s played by Jennifer Hudson) and Tituss Burgess as Cleveland, it is not a wide-spanning career retrospective – there’s the Genius: Aretha docuseries, and other films, for that.

Instead, it focuses on how Franklin found her voice in gospel, time and time again.

And on how Cleveland was the one by her side while she did that.

He might be remembered as the King of Gospel, but Cleveland wasn’t a superstar like Franklin.

As her musical mentor, he always showed up in her life at the right time, teaching her that music could indeed save the Queen of Soul.