A send-off fit for a queen is being planned.
Funeral services for R&B singer and Detroit resident Aretha Franklin have been set, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, Franklin's publicist.
Franklin died at the age of 76 in Detroit on Thursday, following a long illness.
The public will have a chance to pay their last respects to the performer who scored 20 #1 hits on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and won 18 Grammy Awards.
Franklin's body will lie in repose on Tuesday, August 28 and Wednesday, August 29 from 9am to 9pm at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History. The public will be able to pay respects at those times.
The funeral and burial itself will be limited to family, friends and invited guests.
The service will take place on Friday, August 31 at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. This place of worship has played host to the funerals of other well-known Detroiters, including former mayor Coleman Young and civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
Franklin will be entombed, along with her father, her two sisters, her brother and a nephew, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.
The "Queen of Soul" was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but her family moved to Detroit when she was four. Her father, the Rev. Cecil Franklin, was the longtime pastor of Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church.
She had her first entry onto the Billboard music charts when she was 19 with "Won't Be Long". Throughout the years, she would be remembered for her recordings of "Respect", which featured the signature line "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"; "Chain of Fools", "I Never Loved a Man The Way That I Love You", "I Say a Little Prayer", and others.
Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987. She was also a Kennedy Center honoree in 1994 and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2005.