Traveling Tunes: Motown

Episode 2

Gabe Kenyon and Jacob Fletcher

 

Jacob and Gabe introduce and explain the impact of Motown music. It was founded in 1959 in Detroit Michigan, AKA Motor City, by Berry Gordy. Motown was greatly inspired by jazz and blues and spread widely through the 1960’s with artists including Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, etc.