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*Super producer Berry Gordy recently reflected on his first encounter with deceased pop icon Michael Jackson. Berry admits that he never liked children’s groups, but that changed the day he saw a very young Michael Jackson audition for Motown with the Jackson 5. During Berry’s upcoming appearance on “Oprah’s Master Class,” he vividly recalls watching [...]
*This weekend, the curtain will rise at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles (Hollywood) for the highly anticipated stage play “My Brother Marvin.” The eagerly anticipated production was written by renown director and producer Angela Dunlap, and inspired entirely by Zeola Gaye, sister to the late music icon Marvin Gaye. Zeola once again gave another [...]
*“A Band Called Death,” the Audience Award Winner at this year’s SXSW Festival, is set to hit movie theaters in the U.S. on June 8, 2013. [Scroll down to watch the trailer.] It tells the story of Detroit brothers Bobby and Dannis Hackney and their friend Dobbie Duncan who formed proto-punk band Death, despite Motown [...]
*Three women left in the shadows of Motown finally get their due recognition. The Andantes, made up of singing trio Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow-Tate, and Louvain Demps, gathered recently to check out the exhibit, “Motown Girl Groups: The Grit, the Glamour, the Glory.” Demps was brought to tears. “It’s my heart, it’s my heart,” she told [...]
*Gospel recording artist veteran star CeCe Winans has become Motown Gospel’s first signing, with her inaugural Motown Gospel album. This will also mark Winans’ first record in five years which is not set for release early next year, says InlandValleyNews.com. Also on the roster are Detroiter Kierra (Kiki) Sheard, Smokie Norful, Tye Tribbett and Tasha [...]
*(New York, NY) — Motown Records takes a giant step into the ever-expanding Gospel music field as the result of a joint venture partnership with EMI Gospel, creating a new label Motown Gospel. The announcement was made by Barry Weiss, Chairman & CEO, UMG East Coast Label Group and Bill Hearn, President & CEO, Capitol [...]
*Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards – leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation – has died at a hospice at age 68. Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House, Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirmed Monday. He had been [...]
*Berry Gordy is making room for yet another award in his collection. The Songwriters Hall of Fame organization announced Tuesday that the Motown founder will receive the Pioneer Award at its 44th annual induction ceremony on June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The award was established last year to honor [...]
*(MAA News) – At about 6:30am (Detroit time) Sunday, after a long illness, Bobby Rogers of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles died at his Detroit suburban home, he was 73 years old. Rogers joined the pre-Miracles group The Matadors in the 1957. The group auditioned for Jackie Wilson and was turned down. But, Berry Gordy [...]
*One of R&B’s greatest singers is being remembered in a new theatrical drama, “My Brother Marvin,” based on the book by the same name. It’s the untold story of Marvin Gaye’s relationship with his family, as told by sister Zeola “Sweetsie” Gaye. “Through the years, I became taken aback and disappointed with everything that had [...]
*In a Chrysler ad that will soon hit the airwaves (and is posted now on YouTube), Berry Gordy – the founder of the Motown record label and the book writer of its upcoming Broadway musical – takes a drive through Detroit in the automaker’s new Motown 300 model, pre-loaded with classic Motown tunes. Gordy’s destination [...]
*Word has it that Ne-Yo is being considered for one of the two vacant “X Factor” seats next to Simon Cowell on the judging panel next season. The recording artist, born Shaffer Chimere Smith, currently heads up A&R at Motown Records. He confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that talks about replacing L.A. Reid have commenced, [...]
*Veteran R&B artist Bettye LaVette has taken her experiences in the music industry and compiled them into a juicy celebrity secrets book. The singer discusses the gossip, the lies, the sex, the affairs, and the answers to some curious circumstances the industry presented, including putting her on the backburner for her big break. “A Woman Like [...]
*Chrysler started something good when the company recruited Eminem for a memorable ad campaign during the 2011 Super Bowl. So, going for a similar, if not better effect, the company brought Motown Records founder Berry Gordy to the team. “We are Motown, and this is what we do,” the 83-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of [...]
*Over the last ten years, Kem has cemented his place atop the Urban/Adult Contemporary charts and in the hearts of many; from “Love Calls” to “You’re on My Mind”, he’s stirred from his soul emotional ballads and mid-tempo grooves that have become his signature. This time around, he’s applying his formula of smoothness and intimacy [...]
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