son of Clarence Franklin and Edward were born when he was 13 and 16 years respectively. He never identified the father of two children. Aretha grandmother, Rachel, raised children while she pursued a career as a singer Aretha. Rachel lived in a guest house behind the house CL Franklin LaSalle Street. Franklin's family left their home in Boston to the streets of Detroit to LaSalle Street North End during the late 1950s.
Against the will of his father Aretha started dating a family acquaintance named Ted White. In 1961, they were soon married in Ohio by the judge. White became his personal manager and co-writer. Shortly after, Aretha buy a house in Sorrento Avenue northwest of Detroit, where he remained for the next decade. Their son, Ted White Jr., was born in 1964. Aretha and Ted were divorced in 1969. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist for the band's tour. From 1969 to 1976, Franklin has a seven-year relationship with his manager Ken Cunningham road. In early 1970 the couple moved from Detroit to New York City, where the grandmother when Aretha has moved into his house, Sorrento Ave. Kecalf their children (the initials of his parents: Kenneth E. Cunningham Aretha Louise Franklin and pronounced "kelf") was born March 28, 1970.
In 1978, Aretha was married to actor Glynn Turman his father in New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. C. Franklin L. wedding ceremonies. The couple returned to his home in Encino, California.At the end of 1982, Franklin returned to Detroit, where he currently resides. Franklin Turman and divorced in early 1984. This couple had no children of their marriage in the short term. They remained friends and he sang the theme song for the show different world from the late 1980s. While White is 11 years older than Franklin, and Cunningham Turman times a few years his junior.
the two youngest Franklin, Ted White Jr. and Kecalf Cunningham, active in the music industry. Teddy was a guitarist in the band Aretha back up since the late 1980s when Kecalf worked in industry as a Christian hip-hop rapper and producer.
Aretha parents both died, and his two sisters, Erma, Cecil, and Carolyn. The only brother who is still alive, my brother Vaughn (son of Barbara Franklin - born December 24, 1934 - relations before marriage with CL), who lives in Mobile, Alabama and is still traveling with Aretha on tour, and his brother Carl Ellan Kelley (born Jennings, born in 1940), daughter Mildred Jennings by CL Franklin, a congregant of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where CL is a pastor in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Aretha is a member of the Democratic Party.
In September 2010, the second son of Franklin Edward Franklin was attacked by three men while at a gas station on Joy Street northwest of Detroit. A month earlier, Franklin had to cancel her date with Condoleeza Rice on tour with them after breaking two ribs in the fall. In November, doctors ordered the singer sick Franklin not do so until May 2011, after he had spent a week at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital on "serious illness".
