 Detroit Music
Detroit has had tremendous
impact on the world of music. Detroit
bands such as McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the Jean Goldkette
Orchestra pioneered early development of big band jazz in the 1920s. And legendary bluesmen such as John Lee
Hooker moved to Detroit from the Mississippi Delta, working factories during
the day and at night belting out what has become known as Detroit Blues. In the 1960s, artists such as Diana Ross
and the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5 created
the infamous Motown Sound. The MC5,
Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Bob Seger, and Ted Nugent
thrust Detroit powerfully into the Rock and Roll scene of the 1970s. The musical ingenuity continued into the
1980s and 1990s as "The Belleville Three" fused disco, electronic
dance, and house music into Techno, now a worldwide phenomenon. And of course, we can't forget the
immensely popular fixtures of today's Detroit music scene, Kid Rock and
Eminem!
Visit the pages below to
find out more on Detroit's significant influence on the world of music and
the major performance venues where you can catch a show while you're in town.
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