The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe had some success last season with a series of musical revues performed at Art Center Sarasota. Judging from the size of the crowd and their response to the first ...

You might say it was an album six decades in the making. "Temptations 60," the anniversary record that became a passion project for Tempts founder Otis Williams, arrived overnight Friday. It's the ...

Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. had a simple goal when he started the legendary record company 60 years ago in Detroit. “My whole dream was to make the world hear our music,” Gordy says in the new ...

The legend of Motown Records is one that is easily recitable to pretty much anyone even half-interested in music: Berry Gordy Jr. borrows $800 from his family, starts a record label, and transforms ...

Sister songstresses Chloe and Halle Bailey delivered a show-stopping performance at the Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration event in 2019 by taking the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" to new heights.

Otis Williams’ nickname is “Oak,.” Given that the 83-year-old singer is still a member of the Temptations, 64 years after the group’s founding, it’s not to figure where that came from. He’s been the ...

Imagine that The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye took the stage at the Barre Opera House for a concert. These and several other performers from the height of ...

Music has been a connecting force between Michigan and Ohio for decades. In 1959, Motown Records Corporation was started by Berry Gordy with an $800 loan from his family. The music that came out of ...