Motown News

If you're looking for the all-time number one purveyor of mainstream romantic soul, Smokey Robinson may well be the man, in the face of some towering competition.

In this Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, file photo, Artist Whitney Houston performs onstage at the 37th Annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles.

If you're looking for the all-time number one purveyor of mainstream romantic soul, Smokey Robinson may well be the man, in the face of some towering competition.

Quicken Loans is excited to support the Motown Winter Blast for the sixth year and is proudly sponsoring the Quicken Loans Taste of Detroit tent featuring flavors from some of Detroit's local eateries.

The beauty of beach music is that it's nothing new - and neither are the members of TheA GrainsA of Sand.

In honor of Black History Month, Cal State San Bernardino will present a lecture remembering Motown.

When President Barack Obama crooned the first line of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at a fundraiser last month, it turned out to be the prelude for the new soundtrack of his re-election campaign.

Ice skating at Campus Martius will be free this weekend as part of the Motown Winter Blast.

"Rescue Me." "Baby Love." "I'll Be There." No, these aren't the canned affirmations you find on those tiny pastel confectionery hearts.

When we elected to do Soul Week for this week's "Variations on a Theme," I don't think I realized just how daunting a subject it could be.

THE Humberston Lions are gearing up for another successful year of fundraising and a big change to their famous summer event.

If you're looking for the all-time number one purveyor of mainstream romantic soul, Smokey Robinson may well be the man, in the face of some towering competition.

IN the past few weeks Rob Green's profile has been in a rapid ascendency locally.

"Don was always a smart man, but in recent years he'd made a lot of poor choices in business and in his relationships with women,'' said one friend of 30 years.

WHEN Kevan Turner puts the needle in the groove of the first record at A Night Of Soul at Hartlepool's Grand Hotel on Saturday, the Northern Soul fanatic will be keeping alive a scene that has been played out across the country for more than 50 years.

Australian-native Walter De Backer, also known as Gotye, is taking America by storm in 2012.

The Temptations, five decades into a career, have achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records.

Producer Don Cornelius arrives at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Heart Foundation for a tribute honoring Motown founder Berry Gordy Don Cornelius, creator of the syndicated hit dance show "Soul Train" committed suicide in his Sherman Oaks, Calif.

From cleaner to singing superstar, Martha Reeves has seen it all. As she appears in Glasgow for two Celtic Connections concerts this year, she looks back on five decades as the diva of detroit Detroit, Michigan, 1961.

Time and legions of other soul superstars have obscured the fact that for a brief moment, Mary Wells was Motown's biggest star.