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The major genres represented in Detroit's music include classical, blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, rock, pop, punk, soul, electronic music, and hip hop. The greater Detroit area has been the birthplace and/or primary venue for numerous platinum-selling artists, whose total album sales, according to one estimate, had surpassed 40 million units by 2000.
The Detroit Wheels were an American rock band, formed in Detroit in 1964. They served as Mitch Ryder 's backup band from 1964 to 1967. The band had a number of top twenty hits in the mid-1960s before lead singer Ryder was enticed away by Bob Crewe with offers of a solo career, after which the group quickly dissolved.
The band formed amid a thriving musical era in Detroit that also gave rise to groups like MC5 and The Stooges. Fans of progressive and psychedelic rock continued to like SRC's music even after the band broke up in the early 1970s. Their records have developed a cult following over time, and they are acknowledged with their peers as pioneers of ...
S. San Remo Golden Strings; Scandroid; Search the City; Seduce (band) Shotgun (funk band) The Sights; The Silent Years; The Sillies; Sky (American band) The Skylarks (vocal group) Slingshot (band) Snow Strippers; Solid Frog; The Spinners (American group) Sponge (band) Squid the Whale; SRC (band) SSM (band) Stevie Wonder's Superego; The Stooges ...
More on Saturday night’s three Detroit-related Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: ... was in eloquent form as he honored the Detroit band. “The MC5 crystalized (the) ‘60s counterculture ...
The Frost were one of the top Detroit area bands of the era; however, substandard album cover artwork and poor distribution and promotion by Vanguard hampered the band, causing them to miss the national success that other bands like Ann Arbor's Bob Seger, Detroit's Ted Nugent and Flint's Grand Funk Railroad were to achieve.
The band was also a pivotal influence on Detroit compatriot George Clinton, who fused the band's spirit into his Funkadelic work in the ‘70s. “Wayne set the bar for Detroit rock ‘n’ roll ...
In September 2011, 57 years after forming in Detroit and 50 years after "That's What Girls Are Made For", the group was announced as one of 15 final nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, their first nomination, they were also nominated in 2014, 2015, and 2023. [22] Lead singer Bobby Smith died on March 16, 2013. [23]