# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-siggers-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:54.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-siggers-franklin"
name: "Barbara Siggers Franklin"
slug: "barbara-siggers-franklin"
description: "Barbara Vernice Franklin was an American gospel singer and pianist, the mother of American singer–songwriter Aretha Franklin and wife of C. L. Franklin, the African-American Baptist minister of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit."
tagline: "American singer (1917-1952)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1917-06-29"
deathDate: "1952-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.499622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Siggers_Franklin"
    title: "Barbara Siggers Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Siggers_Franklin"
    title: "Barbara Siggers Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バーバラ・シガーズ・フランクリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4859300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations