Motown gave soul music broad appeal with its iconic beat, earworm hooks, and call-and-response gospel vocals. But it also rocked.

Motown redefined pop music with a signature sound blending soul, R&B, funk, and gospel. And of course, the deepest grooves.

It might be hard for today's pop music fans to imagine, but not that long ago, Black American popular music — though a fountain of inspiration for musicians everywhere — ran on a separate "race" track ...

*Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney has penned a text-book-style story of the Motown phenomenon titled “Rhythm Ride: A Trip Through the Motown Sound” (Roaring Brook Press 2015). Many books have ...

Feb. 5, 2006— -- The Motown sound has a beat and a melody that still resonates almost a half-century after it was born. It all began in 1959 when a songwriter named Berry Gordy founded a label, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Berry Gordy were each born in 1929. Both Black men helped shape the 1960s, King with his marches and powerful oratory and Gordy as the founder of the Motown record label.

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Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops will perform at Atlanta's Fox Theatre this Saturday, May 10. The groups are celebrating 60 years of blockbuster hits and 40 years of joint touring. "My ...

Lawrence Payton Jr. has spent his life in Detroit — the birthplace of the Motown Sound that his father helped shape as a founding member of The Four Tops. The legendary quartet had a hit in 1964 with ...

The Motown sound Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1959 as Tamla Records, introduced the world to a new and distinctive sound: a style of soul music with mainstream pop appeal that broke ...

Michael Jackson‘s “Billie Jean” is a song about a man who may or may not have fathered a child with a woman he doesn’t like. One of Jackson’s brothers explained the song’s connection to Motown founder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It might be hard for today's pop music fans to imagine, but not that long ago, Black American popular music — though a fountain of ...