Smokey Robinson

Genres:	R&B / Soul
Descriptive "tags":	soul
Decades Active:	1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

William Robinson, 19 February 1940, Detroit, Michigan, USA. A founding member of the Miracles at Northern High School, Detroit, in 1955, Robinson became one of the leading figures in the local music scene by the end of the decade. His flexible tenor voice, which swooped easily into falsetto, made him the group's obvious lead vocalist, and by 1957 he was composing his own variations on the R&B hits of the day. That year he met Berry Gordy, who was writing songs for R&B star Jackie Wilson, and looking for local acts to produce. Vastly impressed by Robinson's affable personality and promising writing talent, Gordy took the teenager under his wing. He produced a series of Miracles singles in 1958 and 1959, all of which featured Robinson as composer and lead singer, and leased them to prominent R&B labels.

In 1960 Gordy signed the Miracles to his Motown Records stable, and began to groom Robinson as his second-in-command. In Motown's...

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