Aretha Franklin, widely regarded as the queen of soul music, has died at the age of 76.
The iconic singer and trailblazer on Thursday died from advanced pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit, Michigan, US.
Franklin was responsible for many evergreen classics such as ‘I Say a Little Prayer’, ‘A Rose is still a Rose’, ‘Natural Woman’, Chain of Fools’, ‘Respect’, and ‘Think’.
Gwendolyn Quinn, her publicist, announced Franklin’s death via a statement put together by her family.
The statement read: “Franklin’s official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin’s oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
“In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch…
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