Levi Stubbs

Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles on June 6, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan) is most famous as the lead singer of Motown group The Four Tops from 1953 until 2000.

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Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles on June 6, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan) is most famous as the lead singer of Motown group The Four Tops from 1953 until 2000.

The Four Tops began as a supper-club act before finally signing to Motown in 1963; by the end of the decade, The Four Tops had over a dozen hits to their name. The most popular of the Four Tops hits, all of which featured Stubbs on lead vocals, include "Baby I Need Your Loving", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", "It's the Same Old Song", "Reach Out I'll Be There", "Standing in the Shadows of Love", "Bernadette", "Still Water (Love)", and "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)". Although Stubbs is a natural baritone, most of the Four Tops' hits were written in a tenor range to give the lead vocals a sense of urgency. Stubbs and the other Tops remained a team until Lawrence Payton died in 1997, at which point Theo Peoples took his place. The Four Tops were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.