The Motown Museum in Detroit has been resonating with a different signature sound — the rumble of trucks, the buzz of drills ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

Detroit's Motown Museum is one of the nation's top 10 music museums, according to readers who took part in USA TODAY's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. The music museum placed sixth among the top 10 ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The historic house on West Grand Boulevard where the Motown sound was born is growing its story without losing its soul. The Motown Museum is in ...

Black Music Month: Motown artists created the soundtrack of a generation. Years later, many were still fighting over the ...

It seems like every Detroiter has a Motown origin story. For Jamon Jordan, that story starts in his family living room, where his mother had an extensive stereo system and a sprawling collection of ...

The music of Motown Records was formative to a generation of Detroiters. NPR’s Don Gonyea would know — he was one of them. But he found himself wondering about the next generation of Detroiters: Do ...

In 1984, Stevie Wonder contributed the song 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' to the soundtrack of Gene Wilder's 'The Lady in ...

It is no secret that the music industry is cut-throat and not for the weak. Add to that it being incredibly sexist and racist. Another sobering fact: Those behind the scenes in the music business, ...

In this excerpt from Margena Christian's "It's No Wonder," a new biography of the late Motown songwriter Sylvia Moy, Christian details the Detroit native's no-nonsense approach inside Hitsville — and ...