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☆ Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, of Motown group the Four Tops, dead at 88
  + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Abdul “Duke” Fakir, a founding member of the Motown group the Four Tops, has died, according to his family. Born in Detroit, Fakir developed a love of music as a teen while performing with his local church and school choirs, according to a 2012 interview with NPR. In 1954, they formed the first iteration of their band in Detroit called the Four Aims, according to a Motown Museum biography of the group. “[O]nce we started singing, our whole perspective of life changed,” Fakir said in a 2022 interview with The Detroit News. In 2022, Fakir released his memoir “I’ll Be There: My Life With the Four Tops.”Fakir is survived by his wife, Piper Fakir, his children, 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Persons: CNN — Abdul “ Duke ” Fakir, Fakir, Piper, ”, ” Fakir, Honey, Levi Stubbs, Renaldo, Obie ” Benson, Lawrence Payton, Berry Gordy, “, Payton, Benson, Stubbs, Piper Fakir Organizations: CNN, Motown, Hall of Fame, NPR, Motown Records, Detroit News, Stone Locations: Detroit
☆ My Experience as a Black Dancer at the American Ballet Theater - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Gabe Stone Shayer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I am a ballet dancer and a Black man, in that order. I left the United States to train at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow at age 15 so that people would see my skill first and not my skin. My nearly 12 years dancing for the American Ballet Theater could not have been more different. Back in the United States, my skin color seemed to snap into the spotlight. The leadership of the American Ballet Theater does not agree with the way I am characterizing my tenure with the company.
Persons: Monet, Janis Joplin, fakir, Harlequin Organizations: Bolshoi Ballet Academy, American Ballet Locations: United States, Moscow, Russia, “ Swan, “ La
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