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Smokey
Robinson speaks
to following
your dreams
(A P) — M usic legend Sm okey
R obinson reached out to a new gen
eration o f perform ing artists Friday,
telling them they w ere starting out
as he did: "w ith a love for doing
som ething creative."
my m om ." He sang in various bands
R o b in s o n , 7 2 , v is ite d D u k e in h ig h s c h o o l, in c lu d in g T h e
E llington School o f the A rts in M iracles. Just after high school, he
W ashington, D .C ., nam ed for the co nnected w ith B erry G ordy, w ith
ja z z great w hose m usic R obinson w hom he w o u ld la te r form the
said w as the first he heard in his life M otow n label. T he label's first hit
because it w as alw ays playing in his w as R obinson's "Shop A round."
D etroit hom e.
He w ent on to m ake hits such as
W ith students standing nearby, "C ruisin',"" You've Really G ot a Hold
R obinson said any o f them could O n M e," "Tracks o f M y Tears" and
follow him as a singing sensation, "Tears o f A C low n."
because "everybody starts w ith a
"1 thank G od for my life b ecause
love for doing som ething creative." as a baby w hen I w as 3 and 4 and 5-
"If you see som ebody and they years-old, I w anted to be a singer,
are 15 and you say 'O h, there's a new but I grew up in the 'hood in D etroit
artist.' N o, they've been doing it and I didn't know if that w as p o s
since they w ere 6. E verybody starts sible, so I am living m y w ildest child
w ith that love, so o f course, som e o f hood dream right now ," he said.
these kids w ill do that," R obinson
C ornelius W illiam s, 17, w as one
said.
o f a handful o f students w ho p er
R obinson said he started singing fo rm ed a so n g w h ile R o b in so n
the day he w as bom "according to w aited to en ter the new s confer-
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Singer Smokey
Robinson speaks
to students Friday
at the Duke
Ellington School o f
the Arts in Wash
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ence. He said he belongs to the
school's show choir, w hich has a
"Sm okey R obinson/M iracles-kind
o f group."
"I feel like he definitely is an
inspiration to me to keep doing what
I'm doing, to keep learning," W ill
iam s said.
Students shrieked and cheered
w hen R obinson appeared onstage,
and the enthusiasm didn't die dow n
w hen he lectured them to m ake sure
they didn't neglect their oth er stud
ies for their art or give in to peer
pressure.
R obinson said he grew up in a
house o f 11 kids and w as raised by
his sister after his m other died. Som e
o f his close friends w ere "gang
sters," he said. But he said he re
fused to jo in them , w hen they asked
him to help rob a gas station.
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