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The Miracles

THE MIRACLES

YEAR

2012

INDUCTED BY

Smokey Robinson

CATEGORY

Performers

The Miracles could bring audiences to their feet or to tears with their satiny smooth vocals.

The first act in the budding Motown label, the Miracles were pure musicians. They didn’t rely on flash; with their superior blend and songwriting, they didn’t need to.

Bobby Rogers

Bobby Rogers

Claudette Rogers Robinson

Claudette Rogers Robinson

Marv Tarplin

Marv Tarplin

Ron White

Ron White

Warren "Pete" Moore

Warren "Pete" Moore

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Harry Weinger

In the beginning, there were the Miracles.

They were Berry Gordy’s first group, before he started Motown Records. They were his anchor and his talent scouts, the softly urgent choir behind his—and their—ambitions.

William “Smokey” Robinson was the Miracles’ lead singer, their chief songwriter, and eventually their producer. With him, behind him his “partners,” Smokey called them—were Warren “Pete” Moore, a bass singer whom Smokey had known around their Detroit neighborhood since they were 13; Ronald “Ronnie” White, a baritone, a harmony whiz, and intellectual nicknamed “Mr. Exact,” who introduced the group to modern jazz; Robert “Bobby” Rogers, the suave second tenor, lover o f life, and their choreographer; and Claudette Rogers, Bobby’s younger cousin, a soprano/first tenor/alto, smart, cute, their den mother and secretary— and future Mrs. Robinson

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