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 ...

At the ripe old age of 89, Berry Gordy, who built Motown Records into America's largest black-owned business, has announced his retirement.

Marva Hicks, who made her Broadway debut in 'Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music' and most recently appeared in 2013's 'Motown The Musical,' has died.

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 ...

Berry Gordy, the Detroit native who built Motown Records from a shoestring operation into a music, film and television empire, told a hometown crowd Sunday night that he is at last retiring.

Wonder had been with Motown since 1961, when, at the age of 11, he got signed by Berry Gordy Jr. After a legendary six-decade run, Stevie Wonder is leaving the famed Motown Records. Wonder made ...

Joan Osborne's Five Essential Motown Songs: It's completely impossible to do justice to the phenomenon of Motown by choosing a paltry five songs.

You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Many of the living luminaries of the Motown Records empire gathered on Monday morning in a glass-walled conference room ...

The Motown Museum’s big expansion now includes SiriusXM’s satellite radio waves. The broadcast company has announced a new weekly radio show, “Live from Motown Museum,” set for SiriusXM ...

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, center, is flanked by Smokey Robinson, left, and Stevie Wonder during a ceremony Monday in Hollywood.

The Motown legend explains how he wrote "My Girl" and many other classic songs on Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.