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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 ... solely to Black audiences. Those R&B tunes often only reached a white audience ...

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As the Motown sound was dominating airwaves in the 1960s and ‘70s, Hollywood took notice and started incorporating the music into its soundtracks. Ever since then, Motown has been an inescapable ...

Motown was founded in 1959 as Tamla Records, and it acquired the name Motown in April 1960 – the ideal time to launch a record company built on black music. In the early 60s, the music industry ...

Known as the King of Soul, Cooke bridged a gap between white and Black audiences, revolutionizing music before his murder at age 33 in 1964. He is still considered one of the most influential artists ...

January’s music losses include Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Wayne Osmond ...

Known as the King of Soul, Cooke bridged a gap between white and Black audiences ... “This is why Smokey Robinson is still around,” she said, also noting the likes of John Legend, Lionel ...

More than a decade after the release of her debut album, the veteran R&B singer is now a nominee at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. She’ll compete with Childish Gambino, Kehlani, NxWorries and Durand Bernarr ...