Aretha Franklin apparently terminally ill

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The Soul Diva is considered one of the greatest singers of all time. Hits like “Respect” and “Think” they made the model for a whole Generation of singers. Now Aretha Franklin is a report according to the point of death.

The family is asking for “prayers and privacy,” wrote Roger Friedman, a Journalist and friend of the family, on the Website Showbiz 411. The 76-year-old “Queen of Soul” was “seriously ill” in Detroit. When Aretha Franklin was diagnosed in 2010 with cancer.

The singer was in the 60s, thanks to such Hits as “Respect”, “Think” and “Chain of Fools” is world-famous and an icon of black music in the United States. In the past year, she had declared after 56 years in the music business for your resignation. Their last public performance was in August 2017 in Philadelphia. It was a wonderful Show, wrote Friedman. Franklin had fought, however, with exhaustion and dehydration.

Aretha Franklin in 1968, during a visit in Cologne

“Gift Of God”

Soul singer was like Mariah Carey and in 2012 with the late Whitney Houston, whose mother, Background singer, Franklin, were influenced by her as well significantly as well as later, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, and Amy Winehouse. Mary J. Blige referred to in the music magazine “Rolling Stone” as a “gift from God”. 1987 Aretha Franklin was inducted as the first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Among the numerous awards, the Soul-Diva 18 Grammys. In 2005 she got from the then US President George W. Bush the presidential medal of freedom awarded, the highest civilian award in the United States. One of her last great performances Franklin at the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama had in January 2009.

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