332 Smokey Robinson (1940- ) and the Miracles “Got a Job” 1958

Robinson "was born and raised in Detroit, in the rough Brewster ghetto, where, as he recalled in People, 'you were either in a [music] group or a gang or both'"..."Robinson would not consider a professional career until he graduated from high school, and even then he tried barber school and courses in dentistry before giving his full attention to music. In 1954 he formed a rhythm and blues group called the Matadors; the name was changed to the Miracles three years later to accommodate a female singer, Claudette Rogers, who married Robinson in 1959" (Contemporary Black Biography, 2005). 

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles “Got a Job”