The soul diva Aretha Franklin has announced his retirement from live music after 56-year career, and will do so after the publication of a new album that will produce Stevie Wonder and will be released in September. "I have to tell you, I retire this year," said the singer, 74, but left the door open to more records. "Be recording, but this will be my last year with concerts. That's all," he said in an interview with radio WDIV Local 4 of Detroit (USA). "I will make some choice things," noted the winner of 18 Grammy Awards and famous for songs like "Respect", "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You", "Spanish Harlem" or "Angel". An ad that is bitter and sweet at once, Franklin acknowledged. Because music "is what I've done all my life," he recalled. "I feel very enriched and satisfied with where my career started and where it is now (...) I will continue being very pleased that I will not go anywhere to sit and do nothing. That would not be good," he said. But he noted that his grandchildren will soon go to college and wants to spend more time with them.
On which will probably be their last album, he said he was "elated" and can not wait to enter the studio to record it. The album, which will be their studio album number 42 and will feature Stevie Wonder production for several of the issues, will be published in September and then the singer will perform some concerts, maximum one or two per month. "We will not pigeonhole into a single style": a record that is "multidirectional" Aretha, who added he said. A job that will be recorded entirely in Detroit, residence of the singer, who said that all the songs are originals.
