Music
Motown great Smokey Robinson got tripped up by an alternate spelling of Hanukkah and delivered a hilariously botched Cameo holiday video for a fan.
Dec. 15, 2020
Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson has a new Audible memoir in which he performs intimate new renditions of some of his signature hits.
Nov. 18, 2020
At its annual Grammy weekend gala, the Recording Academy’s charitable organization saluted two of Motown’s pioneers.
Feb. 4, 2023
Smokey Robinson, the man who wrote such classics as “Tears of a Clown,” recently entered his fourth decade of crooning silky little love songs, still earning, as he has almost from the beginning, accolades from all kinds of folks.
Dec. 12, 1987
The title of Robinson’s new album, ‘Gasms,’ created a stir online and even with his family. Says Smokey: ‘A gasm is any good feeling you might have.’
April 27, 2023
Gather your best-known hits and divvy them up among your pals and admirers: It’s become a go-to move for musicians of a certain age, including John Fogerty, Tony Bennett and Lionel Richie, who scored an unexpected No. 1 album in 2012 with “Tuskegee.”
Aug. 18, 2014
Lifestyle
The latest installment of Shinola’s Great American series, which pays homage to Smokey Robinson, includes two timepieces, a journal, greeting cards and a turntable, all available starting Jan. 31.
Jan. 24, 2020
Could it be that Smokey Robinson--the man Bob Dylan once called “America’s greatest living poet”--finally will be better known as a sex symbol, something akin to a falsetto-voiced Tom Jones, than as the man who wrote and sang “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” and “The Tracks of My Tears”?
Nov. 22, 1993
Real Estate
The Encino estate where Motown legend Smokey Robinson once lived has sold for $8.253 million, or about $778 per square foot.
Oct. 6, 2017
Motown great Smokey Robinson parted with this Encino home 15 years ago after more than a decade of ownership.
Aug. 18, 2017