Dance into summer with Shaded Soul Band July 22 at 6 p.m. at Waterford Beach Park. Free concert—bring chairs, blankets and friends ...

*In case you missed it, yesterday, Motown icon Martha Reeves celebrated her 85th birthday (July 18, 1941), marking more than ...

The Motown Museum in Detroit has been resonating with a different signature sound — the rumble of trucks, the buzz of drills and the pounding of ...

The whole point of Motown was to get listeners to sing and to dance. Hooks and rhythms and earworms are the DNA of Detroit’s iconic record label. When Motown moved its operations from Detroit to Los ...

The story of Motown Records is a quintessentially American story about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship — but it has a special significance in Detroit, where it all started.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

"To Know You Is to Love You," originally recorded by Syreeta Wright and Stevie Wonder in 1972, arrived June 26. It's from Reeves' upcoming album.

The music from Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism sounds very modern. Despite this, one of the album’s creators explained how Motown songs inspired it. He picked out one Smokey Robinson tune in particular as ...

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 ...