Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It might be hard for today's pop music fans to imagine, but not that long ago, Black American popular music — though a fountain of ...

The eighth edition of "Amplify," Sunday at Sound Board, will bring a new format to the Motown Museum's annual singing and ...

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 ...

*Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney has penned a text-book-style story of the Motown phenomenon titled “Rhythm Ride: A Trip Through the Motown Sound” (Roaring Brook Press 2015). Many books have ...

The New School Studio Orchestra and the Motor City Groove Ensemble are presenting "A Motown Spectacular!" featuring music ...

Spanning a career that has lasted for more than four decades, The Prolifics repertoire represents a composite of the groups that inspired the legacy of Motown. Submitted photo LIMA – Do you love the ...

The “Motown sound” redefined soul music with pop hooks, orchestral sophistication, a legendary house band, gospel vocals, and an ever-present tambourine. All of it on top of a danceable rhythm ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Berry Gordy were each born in 1929. Both Black men helped shape the 1960s, King with his marches and powerful oratory and Gordy as the founder of the Motown record label.

The Motown sound Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1959 as Tamla Records, introduced the world to a new and distinctive sound: a style of soul music with mainstream pop appeal that broke ...

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Motown gave soul music broad appeal with its iconic beat, earworm hooks, and call-and-response gospel vocals. But the Detroit label, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in 1959, was much more ...

It might be hard for today's pop music fans to imagine, but not that long ago, Black American popular music — though a fountain of inspiration for musicians everywhere — ran on a separate "race" track ...