Aretha Franklin says goodbye

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    Spotlight 6/2017
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    Von Talitha Linehan

    It’s time to say goodbye to the Queen of Soul. US singer Aretha Franklin has told WDIV Local 4, a local TV station in Detroit, Michigan, that she is ending her music career this year. The 75-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, sang at the church of her father, who was a ministerPfarrerminister, when she was a child and made her first album when she was a teenager. She has sold more than 75 million records and had more songs on the Billboard music charts than any other female singer.

    This will be my last year in concert

     

    She told WDIV Local 4 that the album she to releaseveröffentlichen, herausgebenreleases this year will be her last: “This will be my last year in concert. This is it.” She said that she plans to spend more time with her family, “but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either”.

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