By Music News
Happy Birthday to Motown legend
Martha Reeves, who turns 80 on Sunday (July 18th)!!!
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas are best remembered for their string of 1960 s hits including “Dancing In The Street,” “(Love Is Like A) Heatwave,” “Nowhere To Run,” and “Jimmy Mack.” In 2016, Reeves spoke about her emotions at hitting 75, telling The Detroit Free Press: “A lot of the Motown artists didn t reach the age of 75. So I feel like I m a survivor. Life has been so good to me, and people have been so kind. We owe a lot of our fame to the acceptance of Detroiters people who came to the 20 Grand and the Fox for three and four shows a day, stood in those lines, and let us rehearse on them until we could go to (national) theaters.”