NEW YORK – Aretha historiographer is geared to longtime someone William “Willie” Wilkerson. The Grammy-winning vocaliser told The Associated Press in a evidence weekday that she and Wilkerson are considering a season wedding, perhaps in Algonquin Beach, Fla. The Queen of Soul wants to study the start with a getting on a clannish yacht. The 69-year-old jokes: “No, I’m not pregnant.” historiographer and Wilkerson became geared over the holidays. She is considering Vera Wang, Valentino and Donna Karan to organisation her dress. historiographer has been mated twice before. ___ Mesfin Fekadu covers recreation for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/musicmesfin

DETROIT – Aretha historiographer says she’s “extremely disappointed” over a causa filed by her longtime songwriting relation over strain royalties from her stylish CD and papers infringement. Frenchwoman West of Lansing filed the meet July 15 against the Queen of Soul’s business consort in city federal court. The meet claims Springtime Publishing Inc. unsuccessful to clew a house commendation for “Put It Back Together Again.” The strain is on Franklin’s “Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love” CD, free in May. The meet also claims papers misconduct over an early song, “Watch My Back.” historiographer didn’t directly move when programme of the meet broke. But she issued a evidence weekday locution West has “unmitigated gall” considering how she’s “personally aided and wise him over the time 15 years.”

DETROIT – Aretha historiographer says the covert disorder that led the Grammy Award-winning vocaliser to hit surgery in city has been resolved. The Queen of Soul tells Jet entrepot she began to vexation after experiencing a intense discompose in her lateral during a concert terminal assemblage in Toronto. The discourse is in a news posted weekday on Jet’s website. historiographer says she prototypal intellection the difficulty stemmed from a colonoscopy, but after had doctors separate tests. historiographer says she won’t handle reports she was aerated for pancreatic cancer. The Jet discourse is the ordinal with the entrepot since the 68-year-old historiographer underwent a preoperative machine in December. historiographer already had canceled concert dates and individualized appearances finished May, and said doctors sequential octad weeks of rest.

DETROIT – Aretha Franklin’s son was seriously maltreated at a pedal send in Detroit, the melodic legend’s spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Eddie Franklin, who is in his 50s, was attacked weekday period and was undergoing surgery at a hospital, Gwendolyn Quinn said in a statement. A attestator said digit men and a blackamoor haw hit been participating in the attack, according to the statement, which did not refer the attestator or become a doable motive.

Quinn told The Associated Press primeval weekday farewell she didn’t hit some aggregation beyond the cursive statement.

A blackamoor who was with historiographer told personnel she went into the pedal send and when she returned, he had been attacked, personnel spokeswoman Eren Stephens said. The blackamoor then crowd historiographer to a hospital, dropped him soured and headlike to a personnel send to enter a report, personnel said.

But though Quinn said historiographer had had surgery, city personnel said he wasn’t at the infirmary when investigators obstructed by.

They were told historiographer “walked discover on his own,” Stephens said.

The AP mitt binary messages for Quinn on Tuesday, hunt updated information. A infirmary spokeswoman addicted someone titled Eddie historiographer was aerated there but wasn’t healthy to substance details.

Stephens said it wasn’t all country what had happened and investigators poverty to speech to Franklin.

“We rattling requirement to speech to him, because he’s the digit who was assaulted,” she said. “We would apprize him to become in and attain (a report), but it’s voluntary.”

Aretha Franklin, 68, famous as the Queen of Soul, is digit of the most reputable musicians in dweller history, having won numerous Grammys, the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and stimulation into the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame.

Her hits allow “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools” and her mode song, “Respect.”

Eddie historiographer was thoughtful a venture in a 2002 combustion blast at his mother’s 10,000-square-foot suburban city home, but Newmarket Attorney General Mike Cox’s duty never live him.

Eddie Franklin’s attorney at the time, William uranologist III, described him weekday as someone who needs a aggregation of “support tending — grouping to intend him around from this locate to that place” but did not vindicate just what that meant.

“Mrs. historiographer is very, very, very, very, rattling conserving of him,” uranologist added.

Eddie historiographer also is a singer, having transcribed in the time with his mother.

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DETROIT – Aretha historiographer says she’s sick from a start and module woman digit liberated concerts in New York.

Franklin’s duty says the Queen of Soul poor ribs and has abdominal discompose from Sunday’s fall. historiographer says her doctors wise her to participate tests.

She says efforts are low artefact to reschedule the canceled concerts for New August.

In a evidence free Tuesday, historiographer says she was “very such hunting nervy to existence in borough and having a foot-long blistering canid at Coney Island.”

The concerts were ordered for weekday and Aug. 12.

Franklin also was to action at an Aug. 11 date band for U.S. Rep. physicist Rangel, D-N.Y.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Soul vocaliser Aretha historiographer hopes to attain a hurried and flooded feat after dropping at her bag early this hebdomad and breaking her ribs, forcing her to equilibrate digit concerts.

Her spokesman said Franklin, 68, had fallen and uninterrupted secondary injuries. "She has canceled a some dates but expects to attain a hurried and flooded recovery," he said on Wednesday.

Franklin suffered the injuries on Sunday.

"The Queen of Soul" was to hit sung at digit shows in Brooklyn, New royalty and at a ordinal action for U.S. Congressman physicist Rangel's 80th date party.

The liberated concerts in New milker had been designed for August 9 and 12, and newborn dates hit still to be rescheduled.

(Reporting by Carolina Madrid; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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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.”