Occupation Singer Name Abdul Fakir Music group Four Tops (Since 1953) | Years active 1953–present Role Singer Movies The Four Tops: Reach Out | |
Born December 26, 1935 (age 88) ( 1935-12-26 ) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Ethnicity People Ghana, Bangladeshi Similar People Renaldo Benson, Lawrence Payton, Levi Stubbs, Theo Peoples, Ronnie McNeir | ||
Abdul "Duke" Fakir (born December 26, 1935) is an American singer. He is best known as a member of the Motown act the Four Tops, from 1953 to the present day. A first tenor, Fakir is the group's only surviving original member.
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Biography
Fakir was born in 1935 in Detroit, Michigan. He is of Ethiopian and Bangladeshi ancestry.
Fakir attended the Motor City's Pershing High School, where he met Levi Stubbs.
He and Stubbs first met Lawrence Payton and Renaldo "Obie" Benson at a friend's birthday party in 1953. They so enjoyed singing together that night that they decided to start a singing group named "The Four Aims" which would later be renamed the Four Tops.
Fakir was a guest on the “Not My Job” segment of the NPR radio show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me” taped at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan on Thursday, January 19, 2012 and broadcast on January 21, 2012.
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Songs
I Can't Help Myself
Bernadette
Reach Out I'll Be There
Baby I Need Your Lovin'
Ain't No Woman
It's the Same Old Song
I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind
Loco in Acapulco
River Deep - Mountain High
Are You Man Enough
When She Was My Girl
Mean Green Mother From Outer Space
Walk Away Renee
Standing In the Shadows of Love
Ask the Lonely
I Believe in You and Me
Nature Planned It
Same Old Song
Keeper of the Castle
Strung Out for Your Love
Something About You
Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me
Back to School Again
LA
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
Do What You Gotta Do
I Like Everything About You
Don't Bring Back Memories
You Keep Running Away
Reach Out and Touch
Without the One You Love