Aretha Franklin has announced that she is retiring later this year.
The Queen of Soul has decided that 2017 is the year she is going to stop making music and her final album is going to be a collaboration with Stevie Wonder which will be released in September.
She intends to spend more time with her grandchildren and her family.
Speaking to Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, she said: 'I must tell you, I am retiring this year. I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now.'
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