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Franklin was born in the home of a gospel minister, Reverend C.L. Franklin. With her sisters Carolyn and Erma, singers in their very own right with recording careers, she sang at her father’s Detroit church even though growing up in the 1950s. Indeed, when she was only 14, she produced her 1st recordings as a gospel artist. Rumors have it that Franklin was strategy by Motown. The tiny start...