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Barbara Vernice Franklin (née Siggers; June 29, 1917 – March 7, 1952) was an American gospel singer and pianist, the mother of American singer–songwriter Aretha Franklin and wife of C. L. Franklin, the African-American Baptist minister of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.
24. Juni 2021 · Barbara Siggers Franklin was a gospel singer and a wife of Rev. C.L. Franklin, the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. She died of a heart attack at 34, when Aretha was nine years old. She encouraged the future soul singer's talent and regularly visited her children. Audra McDonald plays her in the biopic Respect.
- Tom Eames
- Rev. C.L. Franklin
- Barbara (Siggers) Franklin
- Erma Franklin
- Rev. Cecil Franklin
- Carolyn Franklin
Franklin’s father was the man with the “million-dollar voice” — a very popular preacher and singer who was known for organizing the 1963 Walk to Freedom in Detroit with Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the first preacher to join the gospel tour in 1953, and he formed his own group, C.L. Franklin’s Gospel Caravan, that Aretha sometimes sang in. He rec...
Aretha’s mother was a piano player and singer who inspired her daughter. She married C.L. in 1936; she had a son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship, whom C.L. adopted (Vaughn didn’t learn C.L. wasn’t his biological father until 1951). The couple had a contentious relationship, and Barbara eventually grew weary of her husband’s infidelity and mov...
The oldest child of C.L. and Barbara, Erma began singing at the age of five and, alongside her other siblings, sang in her father’s gospel choir. Erma sometimes performed background vocals on Aretha’s songs, but she was also a singer-songwriter in her own right who had several brushes with success. She and Aretha performed together in the 1980s and...
Cecil, Aretha’s older brother, served at the same church as their father, New Bethel Baptist Church. Before that, he graduated as valedictorian from Morehouse College and worked as an assistant pastor for three years. After Franklin finalized her divorced from her first husband, Ted White (who was also her manager), Cecil stopped his work at the ch...
The youngest of the four siblingswas also a talented musician in her own right, even writing “Ain’t No Way,” which Franklin would later sing. Like Erma, Carolyn was also a singer who contributed background vocals to Aretha’s tracks, but didn’t achieve the same level of success despite her significant talents. Both Erma and Carolyn contributed to Fr...
23. Jan. 2023 · Barbara Siggers was a gospel singer and pianist who gave birth to Aretha Franklin in 1942. She died of a heart attack in 1952, when Aretha was 10 years old. Learn more about her life and legacy in this article.
- Marina Manoukian
On June 3, 1936, Franklin married gospel singer Barbara Siggers, with whom he had four children: Erma (1938–2002), Cecil (1940–1989), Aretha (1942–2018), and Carolyn (1944–1988). As noted by his biographer, Nick Salvatore , Franklin fathered a daughter, Carol Ellan Kelley (née Jennings) (1940–2019), by Mildred Jennings, a ...
18. März 2021 · Her mother, Barbara Siggers Franklin, was a highly regarded gospel singer. The family moved to Buffalo, New York, from Memphis and then to Detroit, where her father became pastor of New...
28. März 2016 · Franklin, his wife, Barbara Siggers, and their four children—Erma, Cecil, Carolyn, and Aretha—lived in a parsonage house on East Boston Boulevard, among black professionals and businesspeople...
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