Street art tributes to Aretha Franklin pop up in Shoreditch

Impressive pieces of street art paying tribute to Aretha Franklin have been crafted on walls in East London after the singer's death.

Aretha, the 'Queen of Soul' died yesterday following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Now, artists have paid tribute to the singer in the form of beautiful multi-coloured murals on walls in Shoreditch.

One mural, located on the junction of Great Eastern Street and Old Street in Shoreditch was created by Jules Muck in collaboration with Global Street Art.

Jules, known as Muckrock, said the artwork took her six hours to create.

Another piece by street artist Pegasus is located just a few roads away.

The artist told the Standard: "Yesterday started in celebration honouring the queen of pops birthday and ended by saying goodbye to the queen of soul.

"Aretha Franklin’s passing is a sad loss to the music industry and will be missed dearly’

It comes as people continue to pay tribune to soul singer Aretha Franklin who died on Thursday.

Franklin's publicist revealed that the singer had passed away at her home in Detroit surrounded by friends and family.

The statement said: “Franklin’s official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin’s oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute."

The family added: “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family.”

US President Barack Obama led tributes to the Queen of Soul.

He and his wife Michelle said in a statement that Aretha Franklin "helped define the American experience" through her "compositions and unmatched musicianship."

"In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade - our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect," they added.

Diana Ross said she was “sitting in prayer for the wonderful golden spirit Aretha Franklin”, while Adele said she was "absolutely heartbroken" by the death.

American TV star and actress Oprah Winfrey simply wrote: "We'll miss you Queen."