Erma Franklin, 64, a Grammy-nominated recording artist who at times backed up her sister Aretha, died Saturday of cancer at her home in Detroit. Franklin spent most of the last three decades ...

It's happened to me quite often, with Motown the Musical and with Stevie and now with Aretha and Erma Franklin. It is risky, you know, because you want to get it right and you want to make sure ...

DETROIT - Erma Franklin, a Grammy-nominated recording artist who at times backed up her sister Aretha, died Saturday of cancer. She was 64. Franklin spent most of the last three decades working ...

Tackling the role of Erma Franklin, she helped to paint a picture of the late, great Queen of Soul. Read More: Courtney B. Vance and Suzan-Lori Parks discuss ‘Genius: Aretha’ on theGrio’s ...

Erma Coleman Franklin was born February 10, 1934, in Logan, Cache, Utah. She was raised in Smithfield, Utah, as an only child, by her parents Arley Lamb and Orval Coleman. She attended Smithfield ...

Erma and Carolyn Franklin were Aretha’s best friends, confidants and at one point, backup singers. She entrusted her career to them — once telling me how the three of them came together to add ...