**Free Angela**

**Synopsis**

Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. Known for books like Women, Race & Class, she has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines

**Early Life**

 Writer, activist and educator Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis is best known as a radical African-American educator and activist for civil rights and other social issues. She knew about racial prejudice from her experiences with discrimination growing up in Alabama. As a teenager, Davis organized interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. She also knew several of the young African-American girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963.

"Free Angela" Sung By Larry Saunders The Prophet of Soul (1971)

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**Academic Career**

 Davis later moved north and went to Brandeis University in Massachusetts where she studied philosophy with Herbert Marcuse. As a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, in the late 1960s, she joined several groups, including the Black Panthers. But she spent most of her time working with the Che-Lumumba Club, which was all-black branch of the Communist Party.

Hired to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles, Davis ran into trouble with the school's administration because of her association with communism. They fired her, but she fought them in court and got her job back. Davis still ended up leaving when her contract expired in 1970.

 **Soledad Brothers**

 Outside of academia, Davis had become a strong supporter of three prison inmates of Soledad Prison known as the Soledad brothers (they were not related). These three men -- John W. Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo and George Lester Jackson -- were accused of killing a prison guard after several African-American inmates had been killed in a fight by another guard. Some thought these prisoners were being used as scapegoats because of the political work within the prison.

During Jackson's trial in August 1970, an escape attempt was made and several people in the courtroom were killed. Davis was brought up on several charges, including murder, for her alleged part in the event. There were two main pieces of evidence used at trial: the guns used were registered to her, and she was reportedly in love with Jackson. After spending roughly 18 months in jail, Davis was acquitted in June 1972.

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“She had a lot of things that moved her toward me, and sympathetically, I began to write some of the things that I heard and some of the things that I believed,” Sanders says. “My manager, he came up with the other things such as the Angela Davis Committee. The record didn’t cost but a dollar, and 50 cents went to her. I wrote the song for Angela Davis because she was a homegirl, and a lot of the things that they had on the news…I had my opinion about that.” – Larry Saunders, The Prophet of Soul

***Larry Saunders***

Larry W. Sanders, Prophet of Soul, departed this life on February 6, 2012, peacefully. He leaves behind a great legacy of music, above all, Love, Hope, Peace and Joy for others. He was the founder and president of the Next Step Youth Enrichment Program which included Wednesday Bible Study, various field trips and activities for the children he mentored, along with Kingdom Covenant Connection, Ms. Theola Bright. He is also the Founder and President of Ro-la Records, a Great Musician, Recording Artist and Producer for over forty years, which included songs like: Stranger, Free Angela, and Where Did Peace Go, just to name a few.

He was preceded in death by his daughter Larie Sanders, mother, Louise Sanders White; two earthly fathers, Alvin White and Johnny Ace; sister, Gertrude Pettaway; brother, Mantheria Sanders; niece, Malinda Sapp. He leaves to cherish his beautiful memories a very loving and devoted wife and friend, Mrs. Cheryl Sanders; 3 sons, Fraiche (Monette) Bosby, Montgomery, AL, Larry Sanders, Jr. , and loving and devoted son, Melvin Sanders, both of Mobile, AL; 8 daughters, Rhonda (Andrew) Dove, Melissa Sanders Whitlock and Leiah, all of Atlanta, GA, Julia Sanders Jackson, Virginia, Sonya Ceballos, Tampa, FL, Nira (Chris) Dale, Florence, AL, Music Artist LEDISI

and Barroneece Sanders, both of California; four sisters, Barroneece Prince, Grand Rapids, MI, Apostle Lynn White, Olive Branch, MS, Juanita Major, Washington, DC and a very loving and devoted baby sister, Jadaa (David) Lewis, of Mobile, AL; 12 grandchildren; 3 great grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. His remains will lie in state Friday, February 10, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Small’s Mortuary, Mobile. Visitation will be held Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Small’s from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon and the funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. at Cedar Street Baptist Church, Saraland, AL. The interment will follow in Pine Crest Cemetery, Dauphin Island Parkway, Mobile,

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**Later Years**

 After spending time traveling and lecturing, Davis returned to teaching. Today, she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on the history of consciousness. Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class (1980) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).

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*The One And Only Queen Of Soul*

**Aretha Franklin My Queen**

 

 

Aretha Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, the fourth of five children of a Baptist preacher and a gospel singer. A gifted singer and pianist, Franklin went on tour with her father's traveling revival show and later went to New York and signed with Columbia records. She went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics. In 1987,she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Franklin won her 18th Grammy Award in 2008, making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.

 

 

 

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**Early Talent**

 

Born Aretha Louise Franklin on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C.L." Franklin, and mother Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer. The fourth of five children, Franklin's parents separated by the time she was six; four years later, her mother succumbed to a heart attack. Guided by C.L.'s preaching assignments, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan. C.L. eventually landed at Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church, where he gained national renown as a preacher.

 ***Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C.L." Franklin***
And
 ***Barbara Siggers Franklin***

***Was A Very Good Gospel Singer***

 ***Aretha And Her Father C.L. Franklin***

***Aretha, Carolyn, and Rev. Franklin***

 ***Rev. Franklin***

 Franklin's musical gifts became apparent at an early age. Largely self-taught, she was regarded as a child prodigy. A gifted pianist with a powerful voice, Franklin sang in front of her father's Detroit congregation. By the age of 14, she recorded some of her earliest tracks at the church. She also performed with C.L.'s traveling revival show and, while on tour, she befriended gospel greats such as Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Clara Ward.

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**Soul Star**

 

Life on the road exposed Aretha Franklin to adult behaviors and at the age of 15, she became a mother. Her second child followed two years later. After a brief hiatus she returned to performing, and followed heroes like Cooke and Dinah Washington into pop and blues territory. With her father's blessing, Franklin traveled to New York in 1960. After being courted by several labels, including Motown and RCA, Franklin signed with Columbia Records. She released The Great Aretha Franklin for the label that same year.

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 In 1961, the single "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" hit No. 37 on the pop charts. Franklin had a few top 10 singles on the R&B charts, but they failed to showcase the talent evident in her gospel music. She and new husband-cum-manager Ted White decided a move was in order, and Franklin moved to Atlantic in 1967. Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler immediately shuttled Franklin to the studios at the Florence Alabama Musical Emporium.

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Paired with sidemen trained in soul, blues, rock and gospel -including session guitarists Eric Clapton and Duane Allman
 -Aretha recorded the single "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)." In the midst of recording sessions, White quarreled with a member of the backing band, and White and Franklin left abruptly. As the single became a massive top 10 hit, Franklin re-emerged in New York, and was able to complete the partially recorded track, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man."

Franklin cemented her reign in 1967 and 1968 with a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics. In 1967, the album "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" was released. The first song on the album, "Respect," an empowered cover of an Otis Redding track, reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts, and won Aretha her first two Grammy Awards. She also had top 10 hits with "Baby I Love You,'' "Think," "Chain of Fools,'' "I Say A Little Prayer,  

" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
In 1968, Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of Dr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. She paid tribute to her father's fallen friend with a heartfelt rendition of "Precious Lord. " She also sang at the 1968 Democratic Convention. 

***Martin Luther King Jr.***

"MY HERO" 

Born Michael King, Jr.
January 15, 1929

Died April 4, 1968 (Aged 39)

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The following year, she and White divorced. Franklin performed again at the 1972 funeral of  Mahalia Jackson. Spurred by Jackson's passing and a subsequent resurgence of interest in gospel music, Franklin's 1972 album Amazing Grace sold more than 2 million units, becoming the best-selling gospel album at the time. 

**Personal and Professional Struggles**

 

Franklin's success continued throughout the 70s, and as the artist took home eight consecutive Grammy awards for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance, she earned the title the "Queen of Soul." She worked tirelessly and expanded her repertoire to include rock and pop covers, but by 1975 her sound was fading in favor of the disco craze. In the wake of this new genre, an emerging set of young black singers such as Chaka Khan and  Donna Summer began to eclipse Franklin's career. She found a brief respite from slumping sales with 1976's soundtrack to Sparkle, as well as an invitation to perform at the 1977 presidential inauguration. In 1978, she married actor Glynn Turman.

A string of chart failures ended Franklin's relationship with Atlantic in 1979. The same year, her father was hospitalized after a burglary attempt in his home left him in a coma. As her popularity waned and her father's health declined, Franklin was also saddled with a massive bill from the IRS. A cameo in the film The Blues Brothers (1980) helped Franklin revive her flagging career. Performing "Think'' alongside comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd exposed her to a new generation of R&B lovers, and she soon signed to Arista Records. Her new label released 1982's Jump To It, an album that enjoyed huge success on the R&B charts and earned Franklin a Grammy nomination. Two years later, she endured a divorce from Turman as well as the death of her father.

***The Blues Brothers (1980)***
And
 ***Aretha Franklin***

**Comeback**

 

In 1985, Franklin released another smash-hit album. The polished pop record Who's Zoomin' Who? featured the single "Freeway of Love," as well as a collaboration with the popular rock band the Eurythmics. The record became Aretha's biggest-selling album yet. Her follow-up album, 1986's Aretha, also went gold, and the George Michael duet "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'' hit No. 1 on the pop charts.
The following year, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Also in 1987, the University of Detroit credited Franklin with an honorary doctorate. In 1993, she was invited to sing at the inauguration of Bill Clinton, and in 1994, she was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the next few years, the songstress was the subject of multiple documentaries and tributes.

In 1998, Franklin reprised her former role in Blues Brothers 2000, released the gold-selling "A Rose Is Still A Rose, " and stood in for Luciano Pavarotti, who was too ill to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award. Her rendition of "Nessun Dorma" commanded stellar reviews.

 In 2003, Franklin released her final studio album on Arista, So Damn Happy, and left the label to found Aretha Records. Two years later, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and became the second woman ever to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. In 2008, she received her 18th Grammy Award for " Never Gonna Break My Faith"—a collaboration with Mary J. Blige - and was tapped to sing at the 2009 inauguration of president Barack Obama. With 18 Grammys under her belt, Franklin is regarded as one of the most honored artists in Grammy history, ranked among the likes of Alison Krauss, Adele and Beyoncé Knowles.

 In 2011, Franklin released her first album on her own label, A Woman Falling Out of Love. To support the project, she performed several concerts, including a two-night stint at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York. With fans and critics alike impressed with her performances, she successfully proved that the Queen of Soul still reigns supreme.

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**Personal Life**

 

During this same period, however, Franklin seemed to be going through some challenging times in her personal life. She announced that she was getting married to her "forever friend" William "Willie" Wilkerson in January 2012, and that they planned to tie the knot that summer, but only a short time later, Franklin told the press that the wedding was off. "We were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly," the singer explained.
Just weeks after breaking off her engagement, Franklin suffered another great personal loss: the death of her goddaughter, Whitney Houston, on February 11, 2012. "It's so stunning and unbelievable," Franklin wrote on her Facebook page about the tragedy. "My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi Kris, her family and Bobby."

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**Erma Franklin,Aretha's Big Sister**

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“I guess I'm exactly what Aretha said 

 - I am my own woman.” 

Erma Franklin

During a recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the hostess asked Erma Franklin, "What is it like to be the sister of Aretha?" Before Erma could answer, her sister, Aretha interjected, "Erma is her own woman!"
"Her Own Woman" could be the title of Erma Vernice Franklin's biography. It seems that, through the years, the eldest daughter of The Rev. Clarence and Barbara Franklin has done her own thing and achieved her own individual success.
Erma, born in Shelby, Miss., remembers traveling with her famous preacher father where he moved to pastor churches in Tennessee, New York and Michigan. When Franklin's father was pastoring a church in Buffalo, N.Y., young Erma made her singing debut at age five. Later, when the family moved to Detroit, Erma and her sisters, Aretha and Carolyn, became members of the young adult choir at New Bethel Baptist Church.
"My musical influences were what we called flat-footed gospel singers," Franklin said. "They didn't need any routines or other musical gimmicks to get over, they just stood flat-footed and tore the house down."
"Naturally I love Aretha and I love Mavis Staples, Shirley Ceasar, the late Jackie Verdell of the Davis Sisters and Inez Andrews of The Caravans." Franklin continued. "There are other R&B singers I love also, like Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, but those flat-footed singers influenced me the most."
As a teenager, Erma formed a singing group called the Cleo-Patretts. The group won a state-wide singing contest and recorded songs with the JVB label, a local Detroit recording company, which originally recorded the first sermons of the Rev. C.L. Franklin. When the group disbanded, Erma went on to win many local talent contests. In the late '50s, Berry Gordy and his songwriting partner, Billy Davis, decided Erma should be groomed to become their first recording artist on their own record label.
"Berry and Billy were dynamite as a songwriting team," Erma said. "We had some fun times together, especially our ill-fated trip to Chicago to see Phil Chess (of Chess Records) in Chicago. Berry had hoped to get Chess to distribute their label. Unfortunately, Chess said that we needed to work on some more tunes. Our funds were sorely limited and we shared a plate of food together praying we could make it back to Detroit with the amount of gas money we had left."
Her father had different ideas, though, and convinced Erma that continuing her education was more important at this point than singing. He said that she could always sing after she graduated from college. Erma subsequently enrolled in Clark College in Atlanta, Ga., majoring in business administration and secretarial science.
Erma was later devastated when she learned that three songs originally intended for her to sing were recorded by others: Marv Johnson, "You Got What It Takes;" "All I Could Do Was Cry" by Etta James and "Sweetest Feeling" by Jackie Wilson. The song, "All I Could Do Was Cry," was written by Berry Gordy from Erma's personal break-up with a boyfriend.
After returning to Detroit from college, her father brought Erma and Aretha to Columbia Records for auditions. Erma signed with Epic (a Columbia subsidiary), and moved to New York. Aretha signed with Columbia. When Erma's contract ended, she became the featured vocalist with the Lloyd Price Orchestra for five years. Her manager, Harold Logan, who was also the manager of Price, was later killed in New York while she was touring.

Erma then signed with Shout Records, where she recorded the hit song "Piece of My Heart" in 1967. The song, which made the top ten on the national R&B charts, helped garner her a Grammy nomination for best new artist in 1968.
"Right after "Piece of My Heart" broke and we were ready to record my next album, Bert Berns, the writer and co-owner of Shout Records, died suddenly of a heart attack," Erma explained. "It was utter chaos after that within the recording company so I got a job with a computer programming firm."
Erma said she heard "Piece of My Heart" on the radio by Janis Joplin when it was released and didn't recognize it because of the vocal arrangement. She recently watched a documentary about Joplin and believes she was a very talented and soulful singer.
Erma eventually decided to sign with Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, where her album, "Her Name is Erma," was released. When Aretha left Columbia Records and signed with Atlantic Records, both Erma and her late sister, Carolyn, did the background vocals for their sister's first recordings. Some of those songs included "You Make Me Feel Like (A Natural Woman)," "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "Baby, I Love You." The harmonies Erma and Carolyn added to their sister's songs (called the "Franklin Sound" by critics and disc jockeys) weren't anything new as they had sung the same way as a group at home and in the church.
"Singing was as natural as breathing to us," Erma said.
Concentrating on her career, Erma toured Canada and Europe as a solo artist in the late '60s and early '70s. Some of the many venues where she performed were at Madison Square Garden, the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, the Coconut Grove and the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. She was the headline singer for her own shows in England, Germany, Italy, Monrovia Liberia, West Africa and the Caribbean. Erma also has recorded several television commercials.
Franklin made her dramatic debut in Detroit in 1975. She acted in a play written by Detroit writer, Ron Milner, who also wrote, "What the Wine Sellers Buy," which was staged off-Broadway in New York.
In 1982, Erma added that familiar harmony to her sister's album when she recorded background vocals for Aretha's "Jump To It" album. The album won an American Music Award as best rhythm and blues performance by a female vocalist.
Erma continued to periodically perform with Aretha in Detroit in the the 1980s and on special occasions in the 1990s. She was one of the special guests on Aretha's television special in 1986 for Showtime and performed on June 28,1990 at the Nelson Mandela's rally at Tiger Stadium.
She added her voice to her sister's gospel album, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptist," recorded at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit in 1987. Aretha was awarded a Grammy for best female vocalist for that gospel recording.
In 1992, Sony Music International, who had acquired the rights to the Shout Records catalog, informed Franklin that her song, "Piece of My Heart" had been selected as the background music for a Levi Strauss Jeans commercial in Europe. Then with the resurgence of new interest in the song, Sony Records released a compilation in the United States and the recording is still enjoying renewed success. "Singing is fun; but singing for me is like a hobby because I'm more inclined towards business," Erma said.
Erma retired from the road and moved back to Detroit in the early '70s. Franklin worked for a public relations firm before joining the staff of Boysville of Michigan, Inc., the state's largest private child-care and family reunification agency for at-risk, abused and neglected children. She started as an administrative assistant and was later promoted to a copywriter in Boysville's Department of Community Relations.
Currently, a developer (fund raiser), Erma explained she works hard at raising funds to help the youth and their families.
"My family has always been involved with social causes," she said. "My father, aside from being a gospel recording artist, was heavily involved with social activism. He was the architect of the June 1963 Freedom March in Detroit where more than 125,000 people marched down Woodward Avenue to hear Martin Luther King, Jr. first deliver his famous "I Have A Dream" speech before the March on Washington two months later. My late brother, Rev. Cecil Franklin, was prominent in Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Rainbow Coalition. Aretha uses her vocal talents to promote Civil Rights as well as social causes. My contribution to social causes is raising funds to help kids and their families turn their lives around and become productive citizens in society."
Erm briefly returned to the stage recently to appear with her sister, "Ree," on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Erma and Aretha, along with Aretha's background singers, performed a medley of songs they had sung for their father as children. Erma said she rehearsed about a month for the show, going from work to her sister's house and staying up late to practice. She admitted to being somewhat "anxious" prior to the show.
"But I fell into the 'lights, camera, action' syndrome as soon as the music started," Erma explained. "People might think I should do more singing, but I get emotional satisfaction from what I am doing now. I like singing in public, occasionally, like when Aretha asked me to do the Oprah show with her but I have had the opportunity to meet the kids we help at Boysville and I've seen a lot of them reach their potential. I feel like I am doing my part to contribute to their success. I guess I'm exactly what Aretha said — I am my own woman." 

“I guess I'm exactly what Aretha said 

 - I am my own woman.” 

Erma Franklin

*** Erma Franklin ***

R&B/Soul Musician. Born Erma Venice Franklin in Shelby, Mississippi, she was the sister of singers Carolyn and Aretha Franklin, and the daughter of Rev. C.L. Franklin. As a child she moved to Memphis, Detroit, and Buffalo, where at 5 she began singing in her father's church choir. Later in high school she began singing with her sisters in the vocal group, 'The Cleo-Patrettes' and began recording on the local Detroit Radio Label JVB, but the group broke up after high school. After high school Erma toured with her father's gospel group for 2 years and then had the chance to record for the Chess Record Label and to join Motown but ended up going to college on the advice of her father.

In 1961 she auditioned for the Epic Record Label and moved to New York to record her debut album, "Her Name Is Erma" which came out in 1962 and featured jazz, pop, and R&B tunes. One of her songs on that album, 'Abracadabra' was written by Van McCoy who would later have a success with the hit, 'The Hustle.' She soon became tired of the hassles with Epic and waited out of her contract, and spent 1961 to 1966 touring with Lloyd Price's show. Next she joined the Atlantic Record Label and her career suddenly took off more then it had before, later signing with producer/songwriter Bert Berns of Shout Records in 1967.

That same year she recorded the song, 'Piece Of My Hear' written by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy. The song became her first Top Ten R&B Hit and later Janis Joplin's signature song. Berns died that same year unexpectedly at the age of 38, and she began to tour and backing Aretha on several Atlantic Recordings, also touring the United States and Europe.

In 1969 she signed with the Brunswick Record Label and scored a minor hit with, 'Gotta Find Me A Lover (24 Hours A Day)," and her LP, "Soul Sister." After a falling out with the label she again waited out her contract again and moved back to Detroit in 1972, where she worked on a PR Farm and at the Boysville Children's Charity.

 During the 1980s and 1990s she toured with her sisters. In 1984 her father died, and in 1988 her sister, Carolyn. Her other hits are, "Detour Ahead," "Pledging My Love," "Saving My Love For You," "Each Night I Cry," "Never Let Me Go," "It's Over," "Don't Have The Right To Cry," "It's Just Ready For Love," "Open Up Your Soul," "Baby, What You Want Me To Do," "Don't Catch The Dog's Bone," "Big Boss Man," "Can't See My Way," and "You've Been Cancelled." 

**Erma Franklin Aretha's Older Sister**

Birth: Mar. 13, 1938

Death: Sep. 7, 2002

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Carolyn Franklin

R&B/Soul Musician. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she was the younger sister of Erma Franklin, Aretha Franklin, and the daughter of the Reverend C.L. Franklin. A talented singer and songwriter she wrote both music for her and her sisters, as well as singing backup for them. At a young age Franklin became interested in music through her father's church, and she began to play the piano and sing. The family moved to Buffalo, New York, and then finally to Detroit, Michigan, where she grew up with her brother and sisters. In 1963 and 1964 she got a break when she cut some demos in the style of latenight superclub for singer Lloyd Price's Double L Record Label. The demos were released in 1970 on the album, "The First Time I Cried." Franklin then released her album, "Baby Dynamite" (1969),"Chain Reaction" (1970) and "The First Time I Cried" (1970).

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The albums didn't become huge successed for Franklin, but the album did have the minor hits 'It's True I'm Gonna Miss You,' and 'All I Want To Be Is Your Woman.' In 1973, she released her next album, "I'd Rather Be Lonely," and her final album, "If You Want Me," in 1976. During the next few years she wrote more songs for her sister Aretha including, As Long As You Are There, ' 'Save Me,' 'Ain't No Way,' and 'I Was Made For You'.

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 In the 1980s, she continued her music career, she appeared in the film, "The Blues Brothers" (1980), helped her sister Aretha on her second album, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, in 1987, recorded for her Family at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and appeared as a backround vocalist on British singer Paul King's 1987 album, 'Joy.' In 1984, her father passed away.

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In early 1988, while working at getting her B.A. in music from the Marygrove College (which she did shortly before her death) she was diagnosed with cancer. On April 25, 1988, Franklin died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at the age of 44, from the cancer.

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Her sister Erma continued to record until her own death from cancer in 2002, and her sister Aretha is still recording as of 2006. Other recordings by Franklin include, 'You Are Everything,' 'Shattered Pride,' 'Chain Reacting,' 'Boxer,' 'Ain't That Groovy,' and 'There I Go (Se Per Te C'E
Soltanto Quell 'Uomo).

Birth: May 13, 1944
Death: Apr. 25, 1988

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