FILE – In this May 11, 2013 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs during McDonald’s Gospelfest 2013 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.Franklin won’t say what has caused her latest health problems, but says she’s had a “miraculous” recovery and is looking forward to performing soon.In a phone interview on Tuesday, Aug. 20, Franklin said that she recently had a cat scan and that it showed she was 85 percent improved. The 71-year-old has canceled several concerts and public appearances and blamed it on unspecified treatment. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
The Gospel singer says she is now 85% healed, and it’s all because she knows who her “Healer” is.
(New York, NY)—Websites were abuzz today about singer Aretha Franklin announcing that the medical professionals studying her most recent CAT scan are calling it “absolutely miraculous.”
Although Franklin’s medical condition hasn’t been made public, the 71-year-old Queen of Soul is being very public in crediting faith with her healing, saying, “I was talking to Smokey Robinson… about the fact that some doctors are not very well acquainted with faith healing. And Smokey said, ‘Well, they just don’t know Who your Healer is.'”
The Gospel Hall of Fame inductee honed her vocal chops as a young choir singer at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was a pastor.
