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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 under that name from 1953 until shortly before his death.
NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, ... 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 ...
Farah Fakir Cook, center, speaks about her father, the late Four Tops member Duke Fakir, during his funeral held at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024.
Payton had 11 children. One of his sons, Lawrence Jr., nicknamed "Roquel", went on to sing with the Four Tops who continue to perform as of 2024, and still featuring original member Duke Fakir until his death in 2024.
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.
Duke Fakir made one final visit to Hitsville, U.S.A. Thursday, on the grounds where he and the Four Tops once made Motown magic, fans and family members commemorated the late Detroit singer in a ...
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]
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the last founding member of the Four Tops, has died. He was 88.Fakir died of heart failure surrounded by his wife and loved ones early Monday in Detroit, Michigan, according to ...