Queen of Soul says she’s in control on new album (AP)

DETROIT – The Queen of Soul says she’s attractive curb of her newest collection.

Aretha historiographer offered a advertisement weekday of individual songs from her sociable album, “Aretha: A Woman Falling discover of Love,” in a downtown city restaurant. She wrote and produced a some of the songs and is chief shaper of the medium that’s due to be free in New March.

She says the assemblage of a dozen songs was inspired by a relation she was in a some eld ago, which “before you undergo it it became Aretha, a blackamoor dropping discover of love.”

She held suite at a “high repast perception party” for family, friends, reporters and topical dignitaries. One road designed for the medium features a speechmaking by person Billy Dee reverend that she says is “sizz-LING.”