Soul legend Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76.
Over the past few years, Franklin had been dealing with numerous health issues, and reports emerged earlier this week that she was gravely ill. Franklin’s publicist Gwendolyn Quinn issued a family statement revealing that she died on Thursday morning at her Detroit home. The official cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin’s oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
