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Duke Fakir was still a high school student in Detroit when he started performing songs with three friends in the 1950s. That was the beginning of the 40-year career of the Four Tops, one of Motown's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Duke Fakir, the stylish and genteel singer who nurtured the Four Tops’ legacy for seven decades, died at his home in Detroit on ...

Fakir, who co-founded The Four Tops in 1953, had been in poor health, most recently fighting bladder cancer. By Gary Graff Abdul Kareem “Duke” Fakir, the last of the original Four Tops and a stalwart ...