Coming this fall, “Motown The Musical” is going back to the place where Motown was born, Detroit. It was announced Thursday that the show will play the Fisher Theater for a four week engagement. The hit Broadway musical features music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalogue and a book by Berry Gordy. Mr. Gordy […]

Richard Street, who served with the Temptations during the group’s prolific second heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, died Wednesday morning in Las Vegas of a pulmonary embolism. He was 70. Street, a Detroit native, formally joined the Tempts in 1971 after a long association with the group, having performed with Otis Williams and Melvin […]

Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) The Hitsville Museum 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48208 When: April 14, 1960 What: Originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., “Hitsville” became one of the first black-owned record labels. With its iconic artists and songwriters like Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Supremes and The Jackson 5, […]

June is Black Music Month so The Urban Daily put tgether the top 10 black musicals.