The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe had some success last season with a series of musical revues performed at Art Center Sarasota. Judging from the size of the crowd and their response to the first ...

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

Believing in your art takes patience. And in 1964, Otis Williams had plenty of that. While at this point in his storied career, the Motown legend and sole surviving founding member of The Temptations ...

Motown is one of the most prolific labels of all time, with a range of great labels attached, but who was the label's best ...

In the 1960s, Motown started a musical revolution that would result in some of the best soul music of all time.

Motown Records may still be largely associated with Detroit, Michigan. But in the early 1970s, the music empire made a shocking and strategic move — leaving Detroit for the West Coast. The backstory: ...

Chicago native Kenya LeNoir Messer arrives in the midst of a $75 million expansion at the Detroit cultural treasure.

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 ...

*Motown Records has appointed Courtney Lowery as Executive Vice President of Media Strategy and Lifestyle. In this new role, Mr. Lowery will oversee media strategy and execution for the label and it’s ...