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Ronald White

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Ronald Anthony "Ronnie" White (April 5, 1939 – August 26, 1995) was an American musician, best known as the co-founder of The Miracles and its only consistent original member. [1]

40 relations: A Fork in the Road, Berry Gordy, Billy Griffin, Bobby Rogers, Breast cancer, Broadcast Music, Inc., Brunswick Records, Claudette Rogers Robinson, Columbia Records, Detroit, Disco, Don't Look Back (The Temptations song), Doo-wop, Entrepreneurship, Funk, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Leukemia, List of signature songs, Love Machine (The Miracles song), Marv Tarplin, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Michigan, Motown, My Girl (The Temptations song), My Girl Has Gone, One More Heartache, Rhythm and blues, Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Singing, Smokey Robinson, Songwriter, Soul music, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles, The Temptations, United States, Warren "Pete" Moore, You Beat Me to the Punch.

A Fork in the Road

A Fork in the Road is an Australian travel television series airing on SBS and hosted by Pria Viswalingam.

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Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy III (known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer.

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Billy Griffin

William L. "Billy" Griffin (born August 15, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland)Whitburn, Joel.

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Bobby Rogers

Robert Edward "Bobby" Rogers (February 19, 1940 – March 3, 2013) was an American musician and tenor singer, best known as a member of Motown vocal group the Miracles from 1956 until his death on March 3, 2013, in Southfield, Michigan.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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Broadcast Music, Inc.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of five United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP, SESAC, Global Music Rights, &. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Claudette Rogers Robinson

Claudette Annette Rogers Robinson (born June 20, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Don't Look Back (The Temptations song)

"Don't Look Back" is a 1965 song recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Leukemia

Leukemia, also spelled leukaemia, is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal white blood cells.

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.

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Love Machine (The Miracles song)

"Love Machine" is a 1975 single recorded by Motown group The Miracles, taken from their album City of Angels.

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Marv Tarplin

Marvin "Marv" Tarplin (June 13, 1941 – September 30, 2011) was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mary Wells

Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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My Girl (The Temptations song)

"My Girl" is a soul music song recorded by the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) record label.

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My Girl Has Gone

"My Girl Has Gone" is a 1965 R&B single recorded by The Miracles for Motown's Tamla label.

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One More Heartache

"One More Heartache" is a 1966 single recorded by Marvin Gaye for Motown Records' Tamla label.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame

The Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization honoring the historical preservation of Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Jazz, and Hip-Hop music and culture.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Smokey Robinson

William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Warren "Pete" Moore

Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore (November 19, 1938 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members.

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You Beat Me to the Punch

"You Beat Me to the Punch" is a soul single by Motown singer Mary Wells, released on the Motown label in 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_White

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