Leisure Class (band)
A Detroit band that opened for others—and stopped there.
Detroit
Cars, then no cars, and the music that came out of the gap.
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The Supremes
James Jebbia · 1959
The Supremes were a Detroit-born vocal trio who became Motown’s most commercially successful act, delivering twelve Billboard Hot 100 number 1 singles between 1964 and 1970.
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