This Sunday gone, soul great Aretha Franklin became a fully garlanded member of the septuagenarian club.

No doubt the formidable singer had her fair share of presents to mark her 70th birthday. In return, she’s gifted us with the news that she has re-signed with one-time mentor Clive Davis. As Dummy report, Franklin revealed the news at her birthday party on Saturday, saying that she was “recording with Clive again”. According to Franklin, the pair are set to “sit together and decide what it is we’re going to record”.

Davis, in his capacity as president of Arista Records, helped return Franklin to prominence in the early 1980s. Her hit albums from the period (Jump To It, Who’s Zoomin’ Who?‘) flirted with contemporary sounds; it’ll be interesting to see if Davis and Franklin are similarly tuned in on the next record. Franklin’s last LP was 2011’s A Woman Falling Out of Love. That album was her thirty-ninth studio album; let’s raise a glass to prospect of a fortieth.