The Franklin children's father was a minister, too. But it helps to understand that C.L. Franklin wasn't just any minister. My personal interest in Reverend Franklin rested in part on the baffling possibility that he and my mother were going to marry. They had an affair while I was ent...
She was the fourth of five children of Barbara Franklin, a gospel singer and C.L. Franklin, a Baptist minister and singer. Her family moved to Buffalo, New York when she was two. Then when Aretha was five, they permanently settled in Detroit, Michigan because of her father’s ministry ...
Franklin was one of five children, but the family didn’t stay together long; when she was six, her parents broke up and her mother moved to Buffalo. A child prodigy, Franklin began singing and playing piano as part of her father’s congregation and recorded her first album of gospel whe...
Edward Franklin, 66, is the second of Aretha’s children, also fathered by Jordan. Edward tried to embark on his own music career by becoming a gospel singer. Ted White II, 59, is the child of Franklin and her former manager Ted White, whom she married in 1961. They divorced a littl...
cecil told ritz before explaining that aretha’s father gathered his children after the announcement to warn them about the consequences of sex. after aretha had the baby, c.l. allowed his daughter to drop out of school. but instead of letting aretha stay home to take care of the child—...
Aretha Franklin is an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at the church of her father, minister C. L.
Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."
Aretha Franklin. Actress: The Blues Brothers. Grammy-winning Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Vernice (Siggers) and C. L. Franklin, a B
– Aretha Franklin Related 160 Crush Quotes Celebrating Love At First Sight 22. I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society. – Aretha Franklin 23. “Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!”– Aretha ...
Her father demanded the same kind of respect in a time and place where it could have gotten him killed. C.L. Franklin was born in rural Mississippi to a poor sharecropper’s family. He lived in the belly of the beast; he later said he experienced “segregation in the raw.” When he...