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Bertha Barbee-McNeal, Co-Founder Of Motown's Velvelettes, Dies At 82

Bertha Barbee-McNeal, a co-founder of Motown hitmakers the Velvelettes, died on December 15 in Kalamazoo, Michigan at the age of 82. ....

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Bertha Barbee-McNeal of The Velvelettes Passes - Los Angeles Sentinel

Motown alum Bertha Barbee-McNeal (“Barbee Doll”) of The Velvelettes passed away December 15 at age 82. ....

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Bertha McNeal, co-founder of Motown group the Velvelettes, dies at 82

The group’s hit “He Was Really Saying Something” was covered by the British group Bananarama, and the Velvelettes were cited by singer Amy Winehouse as a major influence. ....

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The Velvelettes: A legendary Motown group born on Western's campus

KALAMAZOO, Mich. It all started with the keys.
Music is my life. It still is and it was when I was a kid, says
Bertha Barbee-McNeal, co-founder of legendary Motown group The Velvelettes. At 9 years old, she remembers, I would sit on my curb (in Flint, Michigan), and I would listen to this gal play the piano. My parents let me take lessons, and I would walk four of five blocks every day … I don t think I missed a lesson until I was 22.
That passion for piano is what led Barbee-McNeal to Kalamazoo in the early 1960s. She was already an accomplished classical pianist when an organist from her father s church recommended she pursue a music degree at his alma mater Western Michigan University. ....

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