Abdul "Duke" Fakir
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Abdul "Duke" Fakir (born December 26, 1935; Detroit, Michigan) is an Ethiopian American best known as a member of popular Motown act the Four Tops from 1954 to the present day. Fakir, who sings first tenor, is now 76 years old and the only surviving original member of the group.[1]
[edit] Biography
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, who is of Bangladeshi and African ancestry, was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Pershing High School along with Levi Stubbs.
He and Stubbs first met Lawrence Payton and Renaldo "Obie" Benson at a friend's birthday party in 1954. They so enjoyed singing together that night that they decided to start a singing group named The Four Aims which would later be re-named the Four Tops.
Duke Fakir was a guest on the “Not My Job” segment of the NPR radio show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me” taped at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan on Thursday, January 19, 2012
[edit] References
- ^ Huey, Steve. "Biography: The Four Tops". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4300/biography. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
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