Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Smokey Robinson was honoured for his contribution to music on Monday with an award named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. more info

ContactMusic — Smokey Robinson was honoured for his contribution to music on Monday 19Sep11 with an award named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald The Society of Singers Sos presented the King of Motown with the Ella Award at a glitzy ceremony at the Beverly Hilton ... more info

ContactMusic — Singers Smokey Robinson and Michael Buble are to headline a benefit concert in Las Vegas next month Oct11 to raise money for childrens education programmes The legendary singersongwriter and Canadian crooner Buble will be joined by country star Marti... more info

ContactMusic — Oscar winner Jamie Foxx will join Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green at the upcoming Michael Jackson tribute concert according to new reports Foxx will perform onstage at the October 11 show in Wales Smokey Robinson has also been lined up to ap... more info

Impose Magazine — Mayer Hawthorne can croon with a pillowy tenderness akin to Smokey Robinson, but before he found those soft pipes he was DJ Haircut - the deejay with an arsenal of funk, soul, disco and fledgling hip hop birthed from those genres. DJ Haircut gave Haw... more info

ContactMusic — Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson paid moving tributes to music mogul Berry Gordy's sister Esther Gordy Edwards at her funeral on Wednesday (31Aug11). Gordy Edwards, who founded the Motown Museum to preserve the legacy of the record label her brother... more info

Detroit Free Press — Esther Gordy Edwards' brother Berry Gordy Jr., Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and many other Motown artists are among the hundreds gathered at Detroit's Bethel AME Church for a warm farewell to Edwards, the label's former vice president ... more info

NME — She will not be joining Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Cee Lo Green and Smokey Robinson at the Cardiff show more info

Perez Hilton — Several Michael Jackson fan clubs have publicly condemned the tribute concert! Say what?? The event, Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert, which is set to take place Oct. 8th in Wales’ Millennium Stadium, will have artists like Christina Aguilera, ... more info

ContactMusic — Heavy rockers Kiss have been axed from the Michael Jackson tribute concert line-up over controversial comments made by bassist Gene Simmons last year (10). The band was invited to join acts such as Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Smokey Robinson an... more info