Soul legend Aretha Franklin canceled an outdoor concert this weekend explaining that giving a performance in such heated conditions was close to “overwhelming.”

The 65-year-old singer was scheduled to perform at DTE Energy Music Theatre in a Detroit suburb on Sunday evening but had to cancel the show due to the unbearable heat. The meteorological forecast for that day was for over 90 degrees.

The revered Queen of Soul said in a statement that two recent outdoor concerts had been “sweltering and all but overwhelming.” Aretha said she hoped the Detroit gig would be rescheduled and explained that she suffered from heat exhaustion.

“Following the Weather Channel and the daily reports in the news via television and newspaper publications, I see that the temperatures in Detroit have been very similar,” she said in the statement. “I am exhausted from the heat and cannot tolerate heat in these extremely high numbers and being in concert simultaneously.”

Aretha has been a widely appreciated singer for over close to four decades now and the numerous Grammy Awards she has collected throughout her career prove just that.

She began recording in the early 1960s and became hugely successful with “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)” in 1967. The hits followed one after another in the years to come, establishing Aretha as an invaluable artist.

Aretha became the first woman to be inducted into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987. In 1991, she was awarded with a Living Lifetime Award Special Grammy, an honor repeated in 1994.

She has also set a record with the greatest number of Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammys, a total of eleven; what’s more, eight of these are consecutive wins from 1968 to 1975, with Aretha as the first performer to receive awards in that category. No wonder it has been dubbed the Aretha Award!

The most recent Grammy to find its way to the Queen of Soul’s personal collection is a 2006 Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance win for “A House Is Not A Home.”

Though born in Memphis. Tennessee, Aretha has been living in Detroit, Michigan for the past 25 years.