ARETHA FRANKLIN planning new album
Soul music legend Aretha Franklin may be retiring from the stage -- at some point -- but she has no plans to stop making music.
Franklin is hard at work on a new album she hopes to have out in January, featuring collaborations with Stevie Wonder, Elton John (on a version of :Your Song”), Lionel Richie and Yitzhak Perlman. “Lionel's working on his piece, Stevie's working on his piece; they're both originals,” Franklin is also co-executive-producing the album. No title has been determined yet, which will be Franklin's first studio set since 2014's “Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics” and first to feature new material since “Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love” in 2011.
Franklin plans to continue recording even as she acknowledges 'winding' down her five-decade performing career, as she revealed earlier this year. Franklin has not set an actual retirement date yet, but says it will become obvious that she's slowing things down.
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