Duke Fakir was still a high school student in Detroit when he started performing songs with three friends in the 1950s. That was the beginning of the 40-year career of the Four Tops, one of Motown's ...

Dreamgirls, directed by Bill Condon, screenplay by Condon, based on the musical by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger Although it is well known that Hollywood generally perceives reality to be less ...

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 ...

Standing in the Shadows of Motown, directed by Paul Justman, produced by Justman and Allan Slutsky and based on Slutsky’s 1989 book, Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary ...

Motown mogul Berry Gordy gave African-American singers an unprecedented spotlight as he sought to produce pop music for everyone, said a trustee of Detroit’s Motown Museum. Gordy’s story is told in ...