From Stevie Wonder to John Lee Hooker to Madonna to Alice Cooper to the White Stripes some of the biggest names in music have come out of our state.
Detroit's Motown Records dominated soul music for many years. Musicians included Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells and The Supremes. The Jackson 5 who also recorded on Motown were from Gary, Indiana, just a few miles from the Michigan border. Motown revolutionized soul and made Detroit one of the American centers of musical innovation.
Techno was primarily developed in basement studios by "The Belleville Three", a cadre of African-American men, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, and Juan Atkins, who were attending college, at the time, near Detroit, Michigan. Influenced heavily by George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Germany's Kraftwerk and the house music coming out of Chicago at the time, they created a new genre of percussive, entirely synthetic electronic dance music.
Detroit was a center of the 1960s garage rock scene, with such legendary bands as The Amboy Dukes (featuring guitarist Ted Nugent), The Bob Seger System, ? and the Mysterians, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. In the 1970s, Seger, Nugent, Alice Cooper, and Grand Funk Railroad (from Flint, Michigan) were popular rock stars.
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