Stories tagged: "Motown"

History Diana Ross and the Supremes
History Daughters of Motown: 5 Michigan Women Who Shaped Music History

These five ladies didn’t need Los Angeles to make it big—all they needed was the Motor City. Relive Motown’s glory days with the stories of these Detroit divas.

Lisa Green Lisa Green March 3, 2023 8:39 am EST
Culture Smokey Robinson performs at Ryman Auditorium on December 16, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Keith Griner/Getty Images)
Culture Smokey Robinson, ‘King of Motown,’ to Release New Solo Album

It's been nearly a decade since Smokey Robinson's last album, but new music from the King of Motown is on the horizon.

Associated Press Associated Press January 30, 2023 12:40 pm EST
Culture Singer Diana Ross, second from left, joins songwriters, from left, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland after the writing team was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York on Jan. 17, 1990. Dozier, of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
Culture Motown Songwriter-Producer Lamont Dozier Dead at 81

Lamont Dozier, who helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81.

Associated Press Associated Press August 10, 2022 12:16 pm EDT

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