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Erma sang backup for her sister Aretha on Aretha's signature tune "Respect". [ 2 ] In 1967, Erma Franklin sang the original version of " Piece of My Heart ", which was a top 10 soul hit in the U.S. and rose to number 62 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. [ 3 ]
Her elder sister was the writer Sue Margolis. Their brother Geoff managed Sleeper after attending Cambridge University. [2] [3] Wener attended Manchester University, where she met Jon Stewart, which led to the formation of Sleeper. [4] Sleeper recorded three full-length albums prior to splitting: Smart, The It Girl and Pleased to Meet You.
Carolyn Ann Franklin (May 13, 1944 – April 25, 1988) [2] was an American singer-songwriter. Besides her own musical success, Franklin was best known as the daughter of prominent Detroit preacher and civil rights activist C. L. Franklin and the younger sister of American singer/musician Aretha Franklin.
Andrew Bird recorded a setting titled "Two Sisters" as the fifth track of his album Music of Hair. Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick recorded a version titled "The Bows of London". The Irish group Clannad has a version titled "Two Sisters" on their album Dúlamán. This version inspired the name of Minneapolis Celtic-rock band Boiled in Lead. [24]
Thorn and her elder sister, Donna, grew up in Albany, Western Australia. Their father, Jimmy Simpson, fished salmon in season. In an interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, Thorn described the lifestyle of a fisherman's daughter: [2] "we played in vats of blood, and all these fish guts. Yeah, it happened sort of three months a year.
Bobbie Lee Nelson (January 1, 1931 – March 10, 2022) was an American pianist and singer, the elder sister of Willie Nelson, and a member of his band, Willie Nelson and Family. When she was five, her grandmother taught her to play keyboards with a pump organ , and after successful appearances at gospel conventions held in Hillsboro, Texas ...
[3] [4] When the third album Traces of My Lipstick was released in May 1998, Scott's elder sister LaTocha announced her plans to go solo. The album peaked at number twenty-eight on the U.S. Billboard 200 and eventually earned a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1999.
Also in 1996, she made her live solo debut in a collaborative album Twinkie Clark-Terrell Presents the Florida A&M University Gospel Choir, which was a top 10 hit on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart, where it was placed by Billboard as the 34th Top Gospel Album of 1996. [25]