Although Motown dealt predominantly in funk and soul, they had a flirt with rock and roll during the late 1960s, in the form of etroit outfit Rare Earth.

Motown and Mo's production of 'Rocking Around the Clock' will take place at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. The performance is ...

Powell was in charge of the artists' personal development. And Robinson, a bard of the American romantic songbook and one of the chief architects of "the Motown sound" produced in Detroit from the ...

Marvin Gaye penned and performed some of the greatest soul and R&B classics of all time, but he once labelled his post-Motown material as being "contrived".

From the late 1950s through the 1980s, the “Motown Sound” was the kind of music that moved the nation. More than three decades later, East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance is ...

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving member of the iconic Motown Records group The Four Tops, has died. He was 88. According to Deadline, Fakir passed in his Detroit home of heart failure.

Diana Ross became a pop music icon during the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, she helped amplify Motown Records as the lead singer of The Supremes. Eventually, Ross went solo and rose to stardom with ...

Friday night’s MusiCares Persons of the Year gala marked the first time the Recording Academy’s charitable organization honored the work and philanthropy of two musicians instead of just one at its ...

Motown’s Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson have been chosen as the 2023 MusiCares Persons of the Year, the organization announced Thursday. Gordy and Robinson, close friends who propelled Motown to the ...