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music had always been prevalent. Back in the day this was a jazz town... And when I was born we went to church, just like a couple of the other guys, so we sang all our lives pretty much... my mother worked at church and my cousins and I, we all went to choir, we grew up there." Both Renaldo Benson
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By 2008, the other three Tops had died; Fakir controlled the Four Tops intellectual properties and was responsible for assembling the touring version of the band that would carry on the group's legacy. He had stated an intention never to retire and indeed continued to tour with the group until less
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They became a popular local performing group, but recording success eluded them until they signed with the newly established Motown Records in 1963. They soon became one of the biggest recording groups of the 1960s, with 14 charted hits through the early 1980s. They are listed at number 77 in
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and Fakir received scholarships to attend the same college and were preparing to enter. However, the group received their first professional singing engagement during the summer of 1954 in Flint, Michigan, took a gamble, and decided to pursue their music career instead.
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band, the band announced a talented young singer whom Fakir recognized as the boy he played football with. They became closer friends and Stubbs even traveled with Fakir to his sporting events, where they enjoyed singing and engaging teammates in sing-alongs.
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until her death in 2021. The two were romantically linked and briefly engaged in 1964; however, their music careers were still developing and they decided it would be best to call it off. They appeared on Chicago's
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section of Detroit with his second wife. As of 2024, he had seven children (one of these having preceded him in death), thirteen grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
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Fakir attributed his upbringing in Detroit as a strong influence in his choice to pursue his music career. Detroit is "full of churches. It's one of those cities in which
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After the group had completed their tour of Europe in December 1988, Fakir and the other Tops were originally scheduled to return to the U.S. from London via the
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was a very popular singing quartet, and it was suggested that they change their own name to avoid confusion. After some discussion, their musical director
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and performed in an ensemble under that name from 1953 until shortly before his death. He was the group's last surviving original member.
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through neighborhood football games; at that time he was not aware Stubbs was a singer. Later, attending a variety show featuring the
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With their shared love of singing, they tried working with a few other singers, then decided to ask
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than a month before his death. Shortly before his death, he named Michael Brock as his successor.
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My father was a factory worker who came from the part of India which is now Bangladesh.
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Fakir died of heart failure at his Detroit home on July 22, 2024, at the age of 88.
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Abdul 'Duke' Fakir interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' February 2010
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The Four Tops – Inductees – The Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation
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Mary Wilson Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests The Four Tops
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As a member of the Four Tops, Fakir was inducted into the
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was published. A musical based on the book, also titled
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broadcast on January 21, 2012. In 2022, Fakir's memoir
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Index

Abdul "Duke" Fakir
Fakir at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019
LBJ Presidential Library
Detroit, Michigan
Soul
R&B
The Four Tops
Motown
Four Tops
Detroit, Michigan
Bangladesh
Sparta, Georgia
Pershing High School
Levi Stubbs
Lucky Millinder
Lawrence Payton
Renaldo "Obie" Benson
it girl
Chess Records
Ames Brothers
Maurice King
Four Tops
Billboard magazine
NPR
Palmer Park
gospel music
jazz
Pan Am Flight 103
Lockerbie
Top of the Pops

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