The Velvelettes were formed in Detroit in 1961 by two students at Western Michigan University, Mildred Gill and Bertha Barbee....

Lew Chudd was born Louis Cudnofsky in 1911 in Toronto, Canada. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia....

Ivy Jo Hunter was born in Detroit in 1940. He learned to play trumpet and baritone sax and played in...

Berry Gordy was always wary of adding another, more political, agenda to the music of Motown. He had allowed references...

When Berry Gordy started out in the music business as a songwriter, he may have been dreaming of setting up...