Thursday, March 28, 2024

Aretha Franklin Cancels Concerts Due to Doctor’s Orders

*We have not so great news about Aretha Franklin, regarding her health and touring. You undoubtedly already know where we’re going with this, but for the record, the 75-year-old music legend’s doctor has ordered her to cancel a few upcoming dates.

Here’s what Page Six is reporting …

The Queen of Soul’s management team says in a statement Friday that Franklin will not perform March 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. That show would have taken place on her 76th birthday.

Franklin also won’t appear April 28 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Organizers say Rod Stewart will perform as the headliner instead.

The statement says the singer has been ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest completely for at least the next two months. It adds that Franklin is “extremely disappointed she cannot perform as she had expected and hoped to.”

Last year, Franklin announced her plans to retire, saying she would perform at “some select things.”

We wish the queen a speedy and complete recovery

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aretha franklin & jennifer hudson

In OTHER Aretha Franklin News …

*Somebody done let the cat out the bag. And that somebody is none other than record mogul Clive Davis.

OK, put it this way. He didn’t so much as let the cat out the bag as he made official what had been rumored for quite some time.

Saturday night at his highly anticipated pre-Grammy party, Davis introduced singer/actress Jennifer Hudson to sing a couple songs, and then told the audience that Hudson will be playing Aretha Franklin – who hand picked her – in an upcoming biopic about the life of the Queen of Soul, reports Deadline.

If you’ve been following this story, which has been around for several years, you already know that Hudson was being considered for the role after Halle Berry (Aretha’s first choice) had turned it down.

As far as Davis’ party is concerned, it began with performances by Barry Manilow, Luis Fonsi, Ben Platt, Alicia Keys, Khalid and Logic. Hudson was the last singer to perform and of course she threw down on Franklin’s classics “Think,” and “Respect.”

Read/learn MORE about this EURweb story, HERE.

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