LYRICS OF ALWAYS BY KIRK FRANKLIN LICENSE
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. On October 4, 2005, his new long-awaited album Hero was released, with latest single Looking for You.įranklin's songs are published by Zomba Music Publishing, a division of BMG Music Publishing.
Blige, Crystal Lewis, and R Kelly in the hit single, "Lean on Me." He also has displayed a willingness to collaborate with artists in the secular realm, including Bono, Mary J. Variety dubbed Franklin as a 'Reigning King of Urban Gospel'. He is known for leading urban contemporary gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One Nation Crew (1NC), and has won multiple awards, including twelve Grammy Awards. He has integrated hip hop styles with gospel themes in albums such as The Nu Nation Project and God's Property, which achieved success on the Billboard Pop Album, R&B and gospel charts.įranklin has collaborated with the biggest names in gospel music, including Tonex, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Crystal Lewis, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Jaci Valesquez, and Willie Neal Johnson. Kirk Dewayne Franklin (born January 26, 1970) is an American gospel musician, choir director, and author. After leading the DFW Mass Choir at the 1990 Gospel Music Workshop of America Convention, he organized "The Family", a seventeen-voice choir, in 1992 and began his recording career. After getting kicked out of school in his teenaged years, having a girlfriend become pregnant, and after a friend was shot to death he returned to the church. He developed a talent for music early, playing the piano at age four and becoming music director of his church at age eleven. He released his first 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.Ī native of Fort Worth, Texas, he was raised by his aunt, Gertrude Franklin.
Kirk Franklin (born Januin Riverside, Texas) is a platinum-selling musician who blended gospel, hip hop, and R&B in the 1990s. You took all my pain and erased every stain