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

Motown - the label, the music, the movement - made superstars out of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson. Two Houston natives are hoping "Motown: The Musical" will put them on the map, as ...

Music is played regularly. Everyone learns a dance or two. And a sock hop, complete with soul food, tops off the six-week summer course. But this class isn’t about parties. It’s about Motown and the ...

Motown motownrecords.com Initially founded in Detroit in 1959 as Tamla Records, Motown Records brought us “The Sound of Young America,” including hot artists like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the ...

Before Ethan Popp could land the job as musical supervisor and arranger for "Motown: The Musical," he had to meet the man in charge. The man who had been in charge for decades, in fact. When Popp ...

Barrett Strong, who scored a hit with 1959’s “Money (That’s What I Want)” and went on to pen many more Motown classics for other artists, has reportedly died at the age of 81. "I am saddened to hear ...