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Kirk Franklin (born in January 26, 1970 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a platinum-selling African-American musician who blended gospel, hip hop, and R&B in the 1990s. He freed his foremost gospel album, Kirk Franklin & Family, in 1993, and is known as the leader of contemporary gospel choirs such as Kirk Franklin & the Family, '''Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation, and God's Property'. The indigen of Fort Worth, Texas, he was raised by his aunt, Gertrude Franklin. He developed a talent for music early, swimming the piano at age four & becoming director of his church at age eleven. When sustaining kicked away from school around his adolescent years & the girlfriend became pregnant, he returned to the church fallowing the friend was shot to demise. Fallowing leading a DFW Mass Choir at a 1990 Gospel Music Workshop of America Convention, he organized "The Family", the seventeen-voice choir, in 1992 and began his recording career. He has integrated hip to hop styles by owning gospel themes inside albums like A Nu United states Design & God's Property, which achieved profits on the Billboard Pop Album, R&B and gospel charts. In October Four, 2005, his freshly long-awaited album Hero was freed, sustaining todays only Wanting to find Professional people.
Singles ! breadth="28" rowspan="2"| Year ! breadth="343" rowspan="2"| Title ! colspan="1"| Chart Positions ! breadth="343" rowspan="2"| Album |- ! breadth="86"| US R&B/Hip-Hop |- | 2005 | "Lookin for You" ! #47 | Hero'' |}
Miscellaneous At a prevent of 1996, falling off a stage in the orchestra pit, he'd been unconscious for many hours. When this own household budget he wrote The Life Is for your Paws, one of his supplementary incapacitating masterpieces. A athlete Jon Drummond is one of the members of "The Family".
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Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation Official site. Tour information, clothing line, pictures and contact information. Rollingstone.com: Kirk Franklin Includes biography, photo, news, discography, album reviews, and a message board. Ten Questions with Kirk Franklin Article written by Brad England and Adam Woodroof. [CCM Magazine] Review of Chain Breaker Review of the Kirk Franklin album Chain Breaker. Review written by Deitrick Haddon. [CCM Magazine] |
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