Marvin Gaye skyrocketed to stardom as a leading Motown artist in the 1960s and 1970s. He become iconic for projects like "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing." His impact on the industry still lives ...
The Supremes were among Motown's most successful artists, but during their early years they provided backing vocals for other ...
Wanda Young, co-lead singer of popular Motown group The Marvelettes, died Dec. 15. She was 78. Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec. 15 in ...
For more than five decades, the idea of Meat Loaf of Motown has been a legend of almost mythic proportions. But it is, in fact, the truth, and was long a source of pride in the late singer's career.
NEW YORK — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters, who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single, “Money (That’s What I Want),” and later collaborated with ...
For a new Broadway production trying to carve out an identity, a link to a nationally recognizable brand can be a big leg up. So it’s quite a coup that upcoming tuner “Motown” has ties to not just one ...
The Black Forum label — founded by Berry Gordy and the Motown Corporation in 1971 — will relaunch in 2021, “providing a platform to a new generation of writers, thinkers and poets,” according to the ...
Visitors to the Wintergarden on the Greenfield Lawn in Center City this Saturday will have the opportunity to take in a live performance of some of Motown's biggest hits. Center City District will ...