Aretha Franklin: Meet Glynn Turman second wife

Aretha Franklin: Meet Glynn Turman second wife – Aretha Franklin was Glynn Turman’s second wife. They met at a benefit party in 1977 and were married the following year. Turman had three children from a previous marriage, and Franklin became their stepmother.

Franklin and Turman’s marriage was tumultuous, and they divorced in 1984. However, they remained friends until Franklin’s death in 2018. Turman visited her in the hospital before she died and spoke at her funeral.

In an interview with People magazine, Turman said of Franklin, “She was a love of my life.” He also said that she was “a great friend, a great lover, and a great mother.”

Who is Aretha Franklin?

Born on March 25, 1942, Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

Franklin’s gospel singing garnered attention while she was a little kid at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, served as a preacher. She joined Columbia Records as a recording artist when she was 18 years old.

Franklin’s career did not take off right away, but after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966, she began to get praise and experience financial success. Franklin rose above her musical contemporaries thanks to the success of songs like “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” “Respect,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” and “I Say a Little Prayer.”

Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on the US Billboard charts, including 73 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries, and 20 number-one R&B singles.

Her well-known hits also include “Ain’t No Way”, “Call Me”, “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)”, “Spanish Harlem”, “Rock Steady”, “Day Dreaming”, “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)”, “Something He Can Feel”, “Jump to It”, “Freeway of Love”, “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” and “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)” (a duet with George Michael). Franklin won 18 Grammy Awards (out of 44 nominations), including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (1968–1975), a Grammy Awards Living Legend honor, and a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1987, she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012.

She died on August 16, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., at the age of 76.

In 2019, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded the songwriter a posthumous special citation “for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades”.

In 2020, two years after her death, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.