Tamla Records was once the pipeline for entrepreneur Berry Gordy’s earliest releases out of Detroit. The West Grand Boulevard-based Tamla Records was launched by Gordy in 1959 as he began to build ...

The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...

At the ripe old age of 89, Berry Gordy, who built Motown Records into a multimedia empire in the 1960s and 1970s, has announced his retirement. “I have come full circle,” he said onstage during Motown ...

Motown the Musical is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown founder Berry Gordy’s incredible ...

Bertha Barbee McNeal, who co-founded Motown’s Velvelettes, known for their songs “Needle in a Haystack” and “(He Was) Really Saying Something,” died Thursday, in hospice, in Kalamazoo. She was 82.

Motown the Musical is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown founder Berry Gordy’s incredible ...

As the Detroit Pistons strategized ways to strengthen their connection with hometown music history, a collaboration with the city’s most celebrated record label seemed like a layup. And so the Pistons ...

Many of the living luminaries of the Motown Records empire gathered on Monday morning in a glass-walled conference room above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood to honor one of their own — the man ...

Rockwell, the singer known for the Michael Jackson-assisted 1984 hit "Somebody's Watching Me," was born Kennedy Gordy, son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. As Billboard reports, Gordy the elder ...

The "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" singer died at age 78. Jimmy Ruffin is seen in a 1960s Motown Records photo. Motown Records Archives — -- Jimmy Ruffin wanted to go it alone. The singer – ...

One of the greatest songwriters ever, Smokey Robinson, looks back on his singular career in the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, breaking down his artistic process and telling ...