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 ...

The Spinners made a surprise musical appearance to cap a lively Sunday afternoon outside the Motown Museum, where hundreds gathered for the institution’s annual Founder’s Day. The free community event ...

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.

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 ...

DETROIT, MICH (WXYZ) — The Motown Museum is welcoming the community to its annual Founder’s Day celebration from 12-5 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Community ...

The Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence — on West Grand Boulevard a few blocks from the historic Hitsville, U.S.A. — will be christened in honor of museum founder Edwards. She is the late ...

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, a founding member of the Motown group the Four Tops, has died, according to his family. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure in Detroit on Monday, surrounded by his wife Piper ...

The love was flowing strong in the room as Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated his 96 th birthday. At a party Saturday, Nov. 29, teeming with famous friends, fellow music executives and family ...

Joan Osborne has a long string of solo albums, a side project with Trigger Hippy, and a forthcoming album that's entirely focused on the songs of Bob Dylan, but the adventurous singer and songwriter ...

In this excerpt from Margena Christian's "It's No Wonder," a new biography of the late Motown songwriter Sylvia Moy, Christian details the Detroit native's no-nonsense approach inside Hitsville — and ...