Friday’s funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple brought her week of tributes to a close with a live-streamed, all-day, music-studded ceremony. It was a service filled with music, prayers, reflections and emotions from a parade of boldfaced names, from presidents to pastors. But it wasn’t supposed to be a show, said Bishop Charles Ellis III of Greater Grace.

“It is my goal and my aim to ensure that people leave here with some kind of spiritual awakening,” Ellis told reporters before the service started. “This is not a concert, this is not a show, this is not an awards production.”This is a real life that has been lived, that a person regardless of how famous she became, no matter how many people she touched around the world, she still could not escape death.”Still, the showbiz and political worlds were well-represented, with powerful performances from Ariana Grande, Faith Hill, Ronald Isley, Fantasia, Chaka Khan and Jennifer Hudson, Gladys Knight made a surprise appearance towards the end, singing a medley of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (from the 1945 Broadway stage musical “Carousel”) and Simon & Garfunkel’s soaring “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” And Stevie Wonder played an affecting riff on the harmonica, followed by “I’ll be Loving You Always.”

Ex-President Bill Clinton professes his admiration for Franklin at Friday’s service in Detroit.

Pink Cadillacs line up outside Greater Grace Temple, the site of Franklin’s funeral Friday.

Jordan Franklin pauses alongside his sister Victorie Franklin while speaking about their grandmother.

Jordan Franklin pauses alongside his sister Victorie Franklin while speaking about their grandmother. “This family has shared their mother, their grandmother, their aunt, their cousin with the entire world,” Ellis said. “Let us all stand and thank them for sharing her with us.” Among the family was Franklin’s granddaughter Victorie Franklin, who recalled the woman behind the legendary performer.Hill sang the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” while Khan and Fantasia performed a pair of spirited gospel classics, “Going Up Yonder” and “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” — with the “American Idol” Season 3 winner kicking off her heels before launching into the latter. Hudson, dressed in a velvet skirt suit with a fascinator perched on the side of her head, delivered a muscular rendition of “Amazing Grace” with the choir backing her up and many in the audience singing along. Other famous names among the attendees: Isley, Robinson, Hill, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Tyler Perry, Gladys Knight, Jennifer Holliday, Jenifer Lewis, Big Sean, Cicely Tyson, and the gospel group The Clark Sisters.

When Perry took the stage to speak, he sounded more like a preacher than a Hollywood filmmaker, paying special tribute to Franklin’s power as a gospel singer. When she sang gospel, he said, she was the link between “God the creator and the created.” “If she is the Queen of Soul, every time, she sang from her soul… When Aretha sang gospel, something happened, something would shake the room,” he declared. “I thank God for allowing us to be on this Earth at the same time as Aretha Franklin.”

Prominent African-American politicos also were in attendance, including Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer.Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was there, as were the Rev. Al Sharpton, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, current Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, and local Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.  Franklin’s second of four sons, Edward Franklin, brought out some tears when he crooned the Marvin Gaye standard, “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology).” He was among several Franklin relatives, including two grandchildren, who paid tribute to the Queen of Soul at the service. Although Franklin famously performed at former President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, he and former first lady Michelle Obama were not in Detroit for the funeral; likely because he was asked to give a eulogy at Sen. John McCain’s memorial service in Washington this weekend. The couple did send a letter, which the Rev. Al Sharpton read during the service. Other big names in attendance: Oscar-winner and “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg, NBA great Isiah Thomas, R&B star Martha Reeves and 93-year-old actress Cicely Tyson, who had the most extravagant church hat in Greater Grace Temple, impressing even people accustomed to amazing hats.