Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops will perform at Atlanta's Fox Theatre this Saturday, May 10. The groups are celebrating 60 years of blockbuster hits and 40 years of joint touring. "My ...
The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the legendary Motown group the Four Tops, has died after retiring from the group earlier this month. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure at ...
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last living founding member of the popular Motown group the Four Tops, has died. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure Monday at his home in Detroit. “Our hearts are heavy as ...
Bertha Barbee McNeal, who co-founded Motown’s Velvelettes, known for their songs “Needle in a Haystack” and “(He Was) Really Saying Something,” died Thursday, in hospice, in Kalamazoo. She was 82.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the stylish and genteel singer who nurtured the Four Tops’ legacy for seven decades, has died. He was 88.
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—It all started with the keys. "Music is my life. It still is and it was when I was a kid," says Bertha Barbee-McNeal, co-founder of legendary Motown group The Velvelettes. At 9 years ...
Sometimes it just feels good to sing, to belt out familiar lyrics into the clear, blue sky. Human beings were made for music, made to sing. Music resonates with our bones, right down to our cells. It ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...