Carolyn Ann Franklin (May 13, 1944 – April 25, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter.

Biography

Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Siggers Franklin and C. L. Franklin. The youngest of six children, they moved to Buffalo, New York, shortly after her birth. Around 1946, the Franklin family settled in Detroit,

Carolyn Franklin died of metastatic breast cancer at Aretha Franklin's home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on April 25, 1988,