MusiCares Dinner for Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy Features Salutes From Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Samara Joy and More

“Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” was the unofficial theme of MusiCares’ annual benefit dinner Friday night. A handful of surviving and still musically active singers who date back to the original Motown era, not least of them Stevie Wonder, were joined by performers from the real-er side of contemporary music to pay tribute to Smokey Robinson and Motown founder Berry Gordy, being honored by the Recording Academy’s charitable wing as its Persons of the Year. The span of the bill at downtown L.A.’s convention center ran from appearances by Wonder, Valerie Simpson and ongoing editions of the Temptations, the… Read Full Article