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Subsequent to this first recording, Franklin entered "adulthood" almost immediately. She signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and became a mother when she was 15, having her first son, Clarence, Jr. Franklin had another son, Eddie, when she was 16.
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Twice divorced, Franklin is the mother of four grown sons. Two of her sons, Kecalf and Teddy, are active in the music business. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of Franklin's touring band. From 1961 to 1969, Aretha was married to her manager and co-writer Ted White. In 1978 she married Cooley High actor Glynn Turman. White had been a decade older than Aretha while Turman was four years younger.
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Cole and Franklin do have their similarities; both harvest significant dynamic fluctuations, obvious gospel roots and comparable harmonic territory. But Cole is a more restrained performer, less gritty in timbre and -- befitting her heritage -- more influenced by jazz. She played up the latter part of her repertoire most effectively in a cover of Michael Franks' "Tell Me All About It," dressing its light samba groove with a well-conceived scat solo. That relaxed bit of improv, with a well-conceived theme and spacious phrasing, underscored her maturity as a vocalist.
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Franklin, twice-divorced with four sons, hopes to correct inaccuracies perpetuated over the years. One, which she says got started in Time magazine 30 years ago, was that her mother, Barbara Franklin, abandoned her family when Aretha was a child. Her parents did split in 1948, but she says the idea that her mother, who died four years later, never had any contact with her children was blown out of proportion and taken all out of context.
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This past year Franklin arranged a music-filled prayer vigil for Luther Vandross at Little Rock Baptist Church that was heard around the world, and provided dinner afterward. During the holidays, she sang Christmas carols and brought cake and snacks to residents of a Southfield assisted living home for seniors with Alzheimer’s and dementia-type diseases.
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A Memorial honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be built on the National Mall, situated adjacent to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and in a direct line between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Congress passed Joint Resolutions in 1996 authorizing Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to establish a Memorial honoring Dr. King to be built in Washington, DC. The Ceremonial Groundbreaking took place on November 13, 2006 and the Memorial is scheduled to be completed in 2009. McKissack & McKissack / Turner Construction Company/ Gilford Corporation / Tompkins Builders, Inc. Joint Venture will serve as the Design-Build team. For more information about the Memorial Foundation, please visit http://www.buildthedream.org.
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