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

The Motown legend behind some of music's biggest hits is still performing and releasing new music.

Motown for many, many decades has been just a magical source of pride and inspiration,” said Robin Terry, Motown Museum chair and chief executive. “Visitors come to the lit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Levi Stubbs, the rough-but-soulful lead singer of the Four Tops, which became one of the harmonically dazzling Motown vocal groups of the 1960s with songs including "Baby I Need Your Loving," ...

DETROIT (AP) — 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 metal — as one of the most significant ...