The Folk-Punk star, Frank Turner has shared his reconciliation with his father who has transformed from male to female. They had next-to-no contact for almost 10 years over infidelity and abandonment issues which the singer has expressed in his music.
However, the situation was different when he met his father as Miranda in 2018 because he immediately felt that this was a different person who was a lot more considerate. The singer told, “Miranda is a really nice person. My dad wasn’t.”
Frank had shared that his late uncle who was sort of a surrogate father for him had arranged a deathbed reconciliation in 2018. He shared, “In his sickness there were some moments of conciliation but the story is long and complicated and something that I'm not yet prepared to discuss publicly.”
When they met Frank noticed how his father’s personality had changed with his gender and said, “She’s really fun, really chatty and she cares. She's interested in who I am and what I do, which my dad never was at all. It's always going to be a work in progress, but we’re doing all right.”
Frank is considered one of the UK’s most prolific writers and he has also written a song about reconnecting with his father and named it Miranda. The lyrics goes, “My father is called Miranda these days. She's a proud transgender woman and my resentment has started to fade.”
The singer had also written a song titled Rosemary Jane which was about his mother where he praised his mother for holding the family together in spite of a husband who is dead to himself and dead to everyone else.
As a child, Turner began to resent his father as he sent him to boarding school at the age of eight and then to Eton, where he remembers crying himself to sleep each night. He said that he found it extremely traumatic. He shared, “I had a long history of self-harm and mental health issues as a kid that was entirely and completely caused by that and I have scars to prove it.”
The singer didn’t speak with his father for nine years and had resentment enough for him to say that he wouldn’t go to his father’s funeral if he died.
Frank Turner Family Details
The British punk star Frank Turner was born in 28 December 1981 in Manama, Bahrain. He is the son of father Roger Turner and mother Jane Turner who worked as banker and teacher respectively. He studied history at the London School of Economics and was a classmate with Prince Williams at Eton where his family couldn’t afford the tuition but he earned full scholarship. In an interview, Frank had talked about the Eton’s castey social scene where elite kids avoided the scholarships kids and looked down on them. He said, “The hang up people have on social class in England just bores me rigid. Who gives a fuck what your parents do for a living?”
His parents were socially conservative thoroughly British and Frank has said, “My family tree is English to the point of being boring. My ancestors were not romantically adventurous people.” He and his siblings were raised in Hampshire by his socially conservative parents and he said that his father’s parents were wealthy and then his father’s generation screwed it all up.
Net Worth Of Frank Turner
Frank Turner has an estimated net worth of $6 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. He has tours schedule from mid-January to November of 2022. His tour tickets are already sold out for Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Nottingham in UK and Münster, Germany.
Turner has shared that this moment is the zenith of his career as he says "I try and be a realist. If you look at the number of people who want to be a full-time musician and compare it with the number of people who get to do it over a lifetime, as opposed to a couple of years in their early twenties, the odds are against me.”
He played for a crowd of 11,000 fans at London's iconic Wembley Arena which was over twice the number of people he’s performed for before.
Although coming from a conservative parent, Turner is living his dreams and says “I see playing music live as my job. My idols are people like BB King or Loudon Wainwright who are always touring: I almost feel that to call myself a musician, I need to be playing music every day. When I did my 1,000th show, I guess it was a big deal but the one that meant more to me was the 1001st because it was like well, on we go.”
Frank Turner Is Married To Jessica Guise
The folk singer Frank Turner got married to Musician Jessica Guise on 30 August 2019 as he shared on his Instagram a photo of them walking down the aisle. He wrote, “Got married to the most amazing person in the world @Jess.guise - now for Honeymoon. See you in a while.” They have been togerther for more than 6 years.
His wife, Jessica Guise has 12.4K followers on her Instagram with 551 posts. Her recent post was of the couple’s selfie ready to go to the wedding for the first time in million years as per her caption.
The pair got engaged in 2018 and after one year tied the knot.