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 ...

Take a walk down memory lane, to a simple time when love and rhythm were in the air. That’s what Garfield Fleming and That Motown Band plan to deliver when they take the stage at the Mars Theatre on ...

Audiences can expect an unforgettable evening of Motown favorites, including Heat Wave, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Baby Love, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, and My Girl, performed in tribute to legendary ...

New York — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of ...

In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...

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 ...

A benefit for The Butterfly Effect Project, Saturday February 8th at 7pm The event includes a dazzling performance by The Motown Band, a 50/50 raffle, a merch table with a bounty of Butterfly Effect ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and an abundance of other hits that helped make Motown an ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93. Messina died at his ...