[4] Around 1946, the Franklin family settled in Detroit,[4] where Carolyn would begin singing at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church.

[4] Like Erma's, Carolyn's modest success in the industry did not match Aretha's blockbuster breakthrough in the late 1960s.

Carolyn also wrote songs for Franklin's 1970 album Spirit in the Dark and her failed 1975 platter, You.

Franklin appeared as one of Aretha's background singers in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers,[4] and was a backing vocalist on Paul King's 1987 album Joy.

[5] Franklin died of metastatic breast cancer at Aretha's Scenic Court home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on April 25, 1988,[4] and – like other deceased family members – is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn Cemetery on North Woodward Avenue.