Motown Records is one of the most celebrated labels in music history. In 1959, an aspiring songwriter and record producer ...

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 Temptations turned “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” into a Grammy-winning epic.

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 Supremes of Motown did not suppress a need to go beyond a bubblegum romanticism and address the times, resulting in the ...

Just minutes after Ron Holland became the fifth pick in June’s NBA draft, the sports world learned there was something unique about the teenage Detroit Pistons rookie: He was an old soul with a deep ...

It is a show where you can be a Temptation one night and Smokey Robinson the next. Motown the Musical arrives at Bass Hall on Wednesday for a five-day, eight-performance run. The jukebox musical, ...

In an unusual twist, five vocal performers gave us an immersive journey through this time, portraying the actual individuals of Holland-Dozier-Holland (H-D-H), as well as the talent who performed ...

Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson and actress and singer Halle Bailey are set to host a special tribute in honor of Motown, the iconic Detroit label that spawned hits from ...