Veteran singer, songwriter, and pianist, Aretha Franklin is engaged to longtime friend William Wilkerson. The couple became engaged over the holidays.
The singer who is often referred to as the ‘Queen of Soul’ told The Associated Press in a statement on Tuesday that she and Wilkerson are ‘considering a summer wedding, in Miami Beach, Florida’.
Franklin, 69, says she wants to follow the ceremony with a reception on a private yacht and is considering top notch fashion designers Vera Wang, Valentino andDonna Karan to make her dress.
The 18-time Grammy Award-winner has been married twice before now. In 1961, she married a family acquaintance named Ted White but divorced him in 1969 after bearing a child for him. She then married actor Glynn Turman in 1978, at her father’s New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit but divorced him in 1985.
Franklin has released a staggering 38 albums in her remarkable career. However, only her 1985 album ‘Who’s Zoomin’ Who’ has been certified platinum.
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