On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

Eventually, he found himself writing for singer Jackie Wilson and helping young singer William “Smokey” Robinson and his band, best known as the Miracles, sell records. The limited returns ...

Each orchestra has been paired off with an artist or company, and there are some impressive names among them including William Kentridge ... know Motown icon Smokey Robinson will be performing ...

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Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; TGE: Today’s Game Era (1998-present) committee; VC: Elected by ...

The label’s first group was The Miracles, featuring a kid called William “Smokey” Robinson who not only had an unusual, oddly vulnerable high tenor voice, but also wrote his own songs.

Four new headliners have been announced for the Rochester International Jazz Festival — one of whom is a Grammy-winning ...

By Jessica Lynch The 2025 American Music Honors is set to celebrate a powerhouse lineup of legendary artists, with Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely being ...

Motown legend Smokey Robinson, singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, Grammy-winning multi-genre bassist Thundercat and roots band The Wood Brothers and will take the stage at RIJF. Dates of ...