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"Lean on Me" is a song by American gospel artist Kirk Franklin. Released in 1998, the song greatly helped ascend Kirk Franklin's album The Nu Nation Project. [1] The Nu Nation Project went on to top the Billboard Contemporary Christian Albums chart for 23 weeks and the Billboard Gospel Albums chart for 49 weeks, and brought Franklin his third Grammy.
Franklin in 1998. In 1992, Franklin organized "The Family", which was a 17-voice choir, formed from neighborhood friends and associates. [8] In 1992, Vicki Mack-Lataillade, the co-founder of fledgling GospoCentric Records label, heard one of their demo tapes and was so impressed she immediately signed up Kirk & The Family to a recording contract.
The articles about Kirk Franklin and U2 states that their song is an interpolation of the Bill Withers song. Has anyone ever heard the two songs? IMO they have nothing in common, neither lyrics nor melody. I suggest that we split this article into one about the Bill Withers song and one about the Kirk Franklin song.
The Nu Nation Project is the fifth studio album by Kirk Franklin. The album had combined the two choirs, The Family and God's Property , being the last to do so, along being among first to feature newly formed group, One Nation Crew .
Franklin was a musical prodigy that changed the world. Franklin was born on Jan. 26, 1970, in Fort Worth and was raised by a great-aunt. Even at a young age, people in church knew there was ...
"Lean on Me" (song), by Bill Withers, 1972 "Lean on Me", an Amazon Original remake of the above, by Old Dominion "Lean on Me" (Cheat Codes song), 2021 "Lean on Me" (Kirk Franklin song), 1998
This is the discography of American gospel artist Kirk Franklin.In total, Franklin has won 20 Grammy Awards, [1] 13 Dove Awards and 28 Stellar Awards.Franklin is the best-selling contemporary gospel artist of the SoundScan era and one of the best-selling gospel artists of all-time, with total sales exceeding 15 million, [2] 14.6 of which are certified by the Recording Industry Association of ...
Kirk Franklin and the Family (Live) is the debut album released by Kirk Franklin. This is also the debut album by Franklin in collaboration with his seventeen-voice formed choir, the Family. It was released on June 29, 1993, and it was his first album. [2] With sales of 2 million units, [3] it is one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time.