Listening to Aretha Franklin speak is like listening to someone who knows how the game ends, so self-assured at this point of her life that stories about performances or records are just great stories as opposed to milestone moments.
... Though Franklin announced earlier this year that she would be retiring from touring, looking to do one or two concerts across a few months, she's not passing that torch any time soon. "The future of soul music? Me, because I'm not quitting. I'm not sitting down."
She's starting a collaboration with Stevie Wonder, which includes a duet with Jamie Foxx, at the end of April, and says it will be some of the "best and greatest music you've ever heard."
Read more at the Chicago Tribune.
