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Kirk Franklin Presents The Blueprint |
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You'd think he'd be done. He's already a seven time Grammy Award winning artist, who's picked up six NAACP awards and a handful of Stellar and Dove awards. Kirk Franklin is also the top gospel artist in Nielsen Soundscan history, selling more than 12 million albums and has more than twenty #1 gospel hits, and hosts his own BET talent search program, Sunday Best. But Kirk Franklin knows where he's come from, and wishes he had a blueprint to help him overcome many of the challenges he's faced in his life. Now Gospel's most beloved name returns with his second book, "THE BLUEPRINT: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms".
Kirk Franklin's life was hardly built on a firm foundation. His father abandoned the family. His mother also abandoned Kirk, and constantly told him he was an unwanted child. He was adopted by his 64 year old Aunt Gertrude at the age of four. His sister became a crack addict. He never saw a black man who was faithful in marriage.
By the time Franklin was just fifteen years old, he was a young father, without an encouraging figure in his life, and just another statistic on the street. As he explains in THE BLUEPRINT, "The street corner was my classroom. The 'hood was my Harvard." He went through life thinking he knew it all, and blamed the fact that he didn't have a role model for not being able to achieve his dreams, until the day he realized he had to turn his life around and become the man he needed to be on his own. That is what Franklin has outlined in THE BLUEPRINT-a chance for young people to become the person they need to be, no matter what the situation, or where they come from.
Without a blueprint, Kirk struggled mightily, yet managed to triumph even more mightily, dedicating his life to helping others find hope during hardship. With The Blueprint, he provides an inspiring blend of God and grit to deliver real-world words of wisdom. The Blueprint delivers an honest new direction, taking faith out of the pews and into the real lives of all who struggle.
Kirk Franklin is also the author of the memoir, "Church Boy: My Music & My Life".
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at Thursday, 18 March 2010 07:06
Cant w8 to read it.
2"Jayville"
at Friday, 19 March 2010 12:44
Wow what a read am inspired and can't wait to have a read.Kirk has and will continue to be my role model and icon..I love everything about him and he keeps me going.May the lord give him strength as he continue to take the Gospel industry to greater heights and continue to lift so many lives...God bless you KIRK AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY.
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