During the 1960s, women weren’t considered producers because of broader biases and norms in the male-dominated music industry. Even so, Miss Ray got credit for producing Jimmy Ruffin’s song “ Don’t ...

Otis Williams, the founder and, at 84, last surviving original member of the Temptations, remembers the night in 1964 when the group was performing at the 20 Grand Club in Detroit. Smokey Robinson ...

Reeves is set to appear at the New Orleans Jazz Market, giving fans a chance to experience a living piece of Motown history ...

The eighth edition of "Amplify," Sunday at Sound Board, will bring a new format to the Motown Museum's annual singing and ...

Detroit-born Motown is uniquely American, a melting-pot triumph with pop music craft at its heart and capitalist hustle in its gut.

The New School Studio Orchestra and the Motor City Groove Ensemble are presenting "A Motown Spectacular!" featuring music ...

Motown star Martha Reeves talks with the Free Press as she announces the release of her Detroit-meets-New-Orleans album, ...

Williams said his survival was a matter of discipline and a refusal to succumb to the vices that claimed his peers.

Berry Gordy was the mastermind of Motown, but it would have been nothing without the formative help he had from Jackie Wilson ...

An exhibit at the Motown Museum's Esther Gordy Edwards Centre spotlights a transformative era while offering a taste of 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 ...