When architect Zena Howard met for the first time with the Motown Museum's executive team in 2015, she quickly grasped the scope and significance of the mission ahead. The Detroit institution was not ...

Motown Records’ first 13 years of existence were a time when pop music was changing for the better, and the various acts going in and out of the complex built out of a residential neighborhood in ...

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The Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence — on West Grand Boulevard a few blocks from the historic Hitsville, U.S.A. — will be christened in honor of museum founder Edwards. She is the late ...

In January 1959, a little-known songwriter named Berry Gordy took $800 he scrounged together from family — along with meager royalties he earned writing "Lonely Teardrops" for Jackie Wilson — to found ...

Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.” Having Gordy as executive producer has its pros and cons – there ...

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The remarkable story of the legendary Motown Records is told through new and exclusive interviews with the label’s visionary founder, Berry Gordy, and many of its superstar artists and creative ...

DETROIT — The historic section of Detroit where Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. built his music empire six decades ago is now looking better than ever. Motown legend — and Gordy's best friend — ...