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"I am retiring this year," the 74-year-old singer told a
Detroit TV station in a telephone interview this week. "I will
be recording, but this will be my last year in concert. This is
it."
Known as the "Queen of Soul," Franklin said she planned about a
six-month tour to support her upcoming album. She also plans to
perform "some select things, many, one a month, for six months
out of the year."
"I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where
my career came from, and where it is now," Franklin, who lives
in Detroit, told TV station WDIV. "I'll be pretty much
satisfied, but I'm not going to go anywhere and just sit down
and do nothing. That wouldn't be good either."
The album will feature all original songs, several of them
produced by Stevie Wonder, Franklin said, but she did not give
details.
Franklin began her music career in the late 1950s and has won 18
Grammy Awards.
Her last album, "Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics,"
was released in 2014.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Melissa Fares; Editing by Dan
Grebler)
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