Smokey Robinson is a legend. Music icon Bob Dylan calls him America’s ‘greatest living poet’. The singer-songwriter’s career spans over 4 decades of hits. He…
Smokey Robinson has written some of the most beautiful and tender pop songs of the modern age, but he didn’t get where he is today…
Smokey tells a great story of how the song came to be and why the tune’s famous guitar lick was almost ditched.
Edwards served as senior vice president, corporate secretary and director of Motown International Operations, where she was charged with exposing the famed “Motown sound” to international audiences.
Smokey Robinson to receive the Ella Award for 2011. Smokey Robinson's life-long commitment to music and charity over his career makes this a perfect honor.
via bcnn1.com heologians and clergy members of every religious stripe may debate the existence of God until the cows come home. Mavis Staples in a documentary history of black gospel music. But
If negotiations work out, Halle Berry will take on the role of a young Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic based on the Queen of Soul’s New York Times best-selling autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”
At the White House Civil Rights Concert, Obama joined Smokey Robinson in singing the Negro National Anthem “Lift Every Voice And Sing” written by James Weldon Johnson. In this clip you can also see Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Hudson and Bob Dylan. Obama Sings “Lift Every Voice” at 1:31 moment. (Via:NewsOne.com)
