Related: This Music Trivia Quiz Is Deceptively Hard, So Let's Put Your Knowledge To The Test From the 1960's through the 1970's, Motown launched the careers of many musicians. Stevie Wonder, Gladys ...

It seems like every Detroiter has a Motown origin story. For Jamon Jordan, that story starts in his family living room, where his mother had an extensive stereo system and a sprawling collection of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left: Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., songwriters Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland, the Four Tops (Obie Benson, Duke Fakir, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Platinum Pied Pipers, or Triple P, aims to bring new sounds to soul music. The group's front man Robert O'Bryant, also known as Waajeed, talks about their latest album, Abundance. When most people ...

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 Norman ...

Martha Reeves took the world by storm in the 1960s. And in 2026, she proved she is still the Queen of Motown by recording new ...

Motown combined elements of blues, gospel, swing, and pop with a thumping backbeat for a new dance music that was instantly recognizable. Competing for teen attention primarily against records by the ...

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 ...