Rosalind Mallia Franklin (March 1, 1952 – February 5, 2010), also known as The Queen Of Funk, was a vocalist of the American funk band

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. She introduced friends George Clinton and

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in 1971, and brought ex- Ohio Player Junie Morrison to the band in 1978. She sang background on early

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and

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albums, and became an original member of

Parlet Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic Parliament-Funkadel ...

, P-Funk's sub-group, where she recorded '' Pleasure Principle'' in 1978 and half of ''

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'' in 1979. She left the group to form a proposed P-Funk offshoot, Sterling Silver Starship with bassist

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. She appeared with Clinton in

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's 1990 film '' Graffiti Bridge''. Her first solo album ''Funken Tersepter'' was released in Japan in 1995 on P-Vine. She wrote, with

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, on the 2002 release ''Suited and Booted'', and earlier appeared on his 1993 studio album,

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. Franklin was married to drummer Nathaniel Neblett of the band

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. They had one child, Seth Neblett.

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American funk singers P-Funk members 2010 deaths 1952 births {{US-singer-stub