Levi Stubbs

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Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles) (born June 6, 1936) is most famous as the lead singer of the Motown group, The Four Tops, from 1954 until 2000 when he fell ill due to bouts with diabetes and cancer. <p>Born in Detroit, Michigan, Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career after hooking up with friends Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton to form the Four Aims in 1954. Two years later, the group changed their name to the Four Tops. The group 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)". <p>Although Stubbs is a natural baritone,...