Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the “Motown sound” that remains popular today and the record company’s role in breaking down racial barriers in America.
Founded in 1959 in Detroit by songwriter and entrepreneur Berry [...]
He woos. He seduces. And then he celebrates — but with sincerity. That was the equation when Usher’s One Night Stand Ladies Only tour rolled in for a Wednesday “hump day” — appropriately enough — performance in Detroit, where the multi-platinum R&B singer, actor and activist had both the Motown and some dudes on his [...]
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Jheryl Busby, the former president and chief executive of Motown Records who helped foster the careers of Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, has died. He was 59.
Busby was found early Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu, said Los Angeles County Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter.
“It was a possible accident or [...]
Motown Records patriarch Berry Gordy Jr. and hundreds of others attended Monday’s funeral for legendary Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose stirring baritone made the group one of the most recognizable in American music during the 1960s and into the ’70s.
“He made us walk in his shoes, felt what he felt and loved what he [...]
Arguably the most powerful voice in Motown’s storied history has been silenced. Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs Jr. died Friday at his home in Detroit after a long series of health problems, including cancer and a stroke, that forced him to stop performing in 2000. He was 72.
Funeral arrangements were pending for Stubbs, who [...]
Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield, who helped create some of the legendary label’s most important anthems, including Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died in Los Angeles, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The hitmaker died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday, said Motown [...]
Grammy award-winning pop singer Lionel Richie said Saturday that he and the Commodores will reunite soon for a tour.
Richie said a reunion could happen in the next two years.
“We better do it now, or in the next 10 years nobody would care,” he told reporters before singing at Antigua’s Romantic Rhythms festival.
Richie, 58, said it [...]
Legendary Motown singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson is being honored for his contributions to the miracle of education.
Robinson, who helped put the fledgling Motown record label on the map in the early 1960s with his group the Miracles, is receiving the United Negro College Fund’s award of excellence.
“The award honors Smokey not only for his five-decade career [...]
El DeBarge is in an orange jumpsuit at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles after an arrest for domestic violence exposed several outstanding warrants.
The singer, born Eldra DeBarge, was initially taken into custody early Sunday accused of domestic violence. The L.A. County District Attorney rejected the charge, but the crooner had a [...]
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