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Abdul Kareem "Duke" Fakir (December 26, 1935 – July 22, 2024) was an American singer. He co-founded the Motown quartet the Four Tops and performed in an ensemble ...
The first follow-up single, "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" ... Abdul "Duke" Fakir – first tenor vocals (1953–2024; retired, died 2024)
Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir of the Four Tops in the UK on 9 September 1976 (Getty) Fakir, born to immigrant parents of Ethiopian and Bangladeshi descent, grew up in Detroit, in a particularly rough ...
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows ...
The Four Tops -- Lawrence Payton, Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir and Renaldo Obie Benson -- pose for a portrait circa 1965 in New York City, New York.
The pair met Levi Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir while singing at a friend's birthday party in 1954 and decided to form a group called the Four Aims. [2] Roquel Billy Davis, who was Payton's cousin, was a fifth member of the group for a time and a songwriter for the group. [2]
More recently, Fakir had been working on a planned Broadway musical based on their lives and completed the memoir “I’ll Be There,” published in 2022. Fakir was married twice, for the last 50 years to Piper Gibson, and had seven children. (Six survive him). In the mid-1960s, he was briefly engaged to Mary Wilson of the Supremes.
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of Motown legends the Four Tops, died on Monday at his home in Detroit, his family confirmed to the New York Times. The cause was heart ...