Franklin's Background

Franklin Siefring was born the youngest of six in the small southern town of Blakely, Georgia, shortly after his family moved there from Florida. His grandparents ran a grocery store in town, and Franklin’s arrival nearly ended before it began. Born anemic, he almost died within the first hour of delivery. The attending doctor carried him in his arms, sprinting from the clinic delivery room to the hospital to save his life.

That was the first road Franklin ever traveled. Many more followed.

His family moved throughout the United States, mostly across the Southeast, rarely staying in one place for more than a few months at a time. Work took them where they needed to go. Eventually, his father became a purchaser for an interstate road-building company, and where the roads were being built was where the family lived.

That kind of life teaches a person how to listen, adapt, and get along with all kinds of people — different backgrounds, different stories, different ways of seeing the world. For Franklin, it became part of the foundation of songwriting.

By age five, Franklin had discovered the joy of singing. At eight, when his family moved to Nashville, he fell in love with Country music. He also got his first taste of performing, playing Father Christmas in a school play. When the family left Nashville, he remembers feeling like he should stay — like he belonged there among the Country music lights and songs. But moving on was part of life, and he carried the music with him.

Through his pre-teen years, Franklin sang in church, sang along with the radio, and even tagged along with a high school drum line in a small Georgia town. His father had been a drummer in his younger years, so rhythm kind of comes naturally to him.

By his teens, Franklin was singing in school choir in Montgomery, Alabama, writing poetry, and beginning to jot down his first song ideas. Acting also came back into his life, and the idea of combining story, music, and performance felt natural. One of his early musical roles was in Oklahoma! — long before he could have guessed he would someday live in Oklahoma with his Oklahoma wife.

After working in several different careers, including his service in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, Franklin began taking songwriting more seriously, leaning into the craft with focus and intention. Since then, he has written with accomplished Nashville songwriters, studied the structure and heart of Country songwriting, and continued building relationships with artists, writers, and music professionals who care about songs that feel honest, singable, and true.

Today, Franklin Songworks™ is built around the same things that shaped him from the beginning: story, movement, real people, Country music, and songs written with the artist in mind.