We’re accustomed to seeing Berry Gordy’s big smile, but his grin on the occasion of the Kennedy Honors ceremony Dec. 5 was so broad that his face was in imminent danger of splitting in two. The Motown ...

Motown's Marvelettes singer Wanda Young (center) died earlier this month from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease outside of Detroit. Getty Wanda Young, singer in the Motown doo-wop ...

Wanda Young, co-lead singer of popular Motown group The Marvelettes, died Dec. 15. She was 78. Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec. 15 in ...

She was the lead voice on “Don’t Mess With Bill” and other songs written by Smokey Robinson, who said she “had this little voice that was sexy to me.” By Richard Sandomir Wanda Young, one of the lead ...