{"id":13568,"date":"2012-03-26T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13568"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:12:20","slug":"happy-birthday-aretha-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13568","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Aretha Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014<strong> Aretha Franklin<\/strong> has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She\u2019s reuniting with one of her musical mentors, <strong>Clive Davis<\/strong>, for a new album.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, <strong>Franklin<\/strong> said she and<strong> Davis<\/strong>, who helped engineer her comeback in the 1980s, would be working on new music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis<\/strong> sat next to<strong> Franklin<\/strong> for most of the night at the soiree at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, which included a sit-down dinner, a dance performance and a mini-concert that featured rising jazz pianist<strong> Kris Bowers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other guests included<strong> Diane Sawyer<\/strong>, <strong>Rev. Al Sharpton<\/strong>, and <strong>Willie Wilkerson<\/strong>, <strong>Franklin\u2019s<\/strong> longtime companion and briefly this year her fianc\u00e9.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilkerson<\/strong> stood by <strong>Franklin\u2019s<\/strong> side as she cut her three-tier, lime-green birthday cake while the crowd serenaded her with <strong>Stevie Wonder\u2019s<\/strong> version of <em>\u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She\u2019s reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album. In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who helped engineer her comeback in the 1980s, would be working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}