Smokey Robinson recorded 37 top 40 Motown hits between 1960 and 1987, including the classics, You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, The Tracks of My Tears, I Second That Emotion and also two #1 solo singles Cruising and Being with You. Bob Dylan once pronounced him America’s “greatest living poet”, and through the decades, the rest of America has lived in love and heartbreak to the soundtrack of his music. Founded on devotion and constancy, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles released 15 albums in 15 years on the Motown imprint. Robinson was Vice President of the label from its third year of inception, and released another 16 solo albums until the label was sold to MCA in 1988. In addition to his own projects, Robinson wrote and produced dozens of hits for other artists, including Mary Wells’ My Guy and The Temptations’ My Girl and The Way You Do The Things You Do. Over the course of his 50-year career in music, Robinson has over 4,000 songs to his credit. Robinson has received numerous awards including the Grammy Living Legend Award, NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award, Honorary Doctorate (Howard University), and the National Medal of Arts Award from the President of the United States. And he’s also a Kennedy Center Honoree. He has also been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. In 1989, he released a book of his life titled, "In My Life," with McGraw-Hill Publishers. Still a popular entertainer, Robinson continues to perform live, and has made cameo television appearances in countless shows, including Days of Our Lives, The Young and The Restless, Hollywood Homicide, and Later with Jools Holland. He has been a guest judge on American Idol, and performed a medley of his hits with the top six male contestants on the finale of American Idol Season 6 on May 23, 2007. Robinson has been busy as a public speaker and is the spokesman of the Great American Smokeout, which takes place annually one week before Thanksgiving. Exploring new business opportunities, his new line of soul food entrees is called “The Soul is in the Bowl” and can be found in major supermarkets across the country. The Food Company also services the armed forces. Robinson has put out an album in recent times, Timeless Love, an album of standards about which Rolling Stone proclaimed “The Motown giant shows everyone how you do a covers album.” During his current “Timeless Love” tour Robinson continues to thrill audiences around the world with his high tenor voice, impeccable timing, and profound sense of lyric. Titles Presentations on music, Black America and on being a Black American Topics Celebrity, Music, Minority, Diversity, Entertainment Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range Please call us. Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State CA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.