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Renaldo "Obie" Benson (June 14, 1936 – July 1, 2005) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined in 1953 and continued to perform with for over five decades, until April 8, 2005.
Renaldo „Obie“ Benson (* 14. Juni 1936 in Detroit, Michigan; † 1. Juli 2005 in Detroit) war ein US-amerikanischer Soul - und R&B -Sänger. Benson wurde bekannt als Tenorstimme der Motown -Band The Four Tops, mit der er vor allem in den 1960er Jahren zahlreiche internationale Hits feierte.
- Benson, Obie (Spitzname)
- US-amerikanischer Soul- und R&B-Sänger
- 14. Juni 1936
- Benson, Renaldo
2.1 Studioalben. 2.2 Livealben. 2.3 Kompilationen. 2.4 Singles. 3 Auszeichnungen für Musikverkäufe. 4 Quellen. 5 Literatur. 6 Weblinks. Geschichte. 1953 wurde die Gruppe von Renaldo „Obie“ Benson, Abdul „Duke“ Fakir, Lawrence Payton und Levi Stubbs gegründet.
- 1953 als The Four Aims
- Soul
- Detroit
- Levi Stubbs († 2008)
5. Juli 2005 · Obituary. Renaldo 'Obie' Benson. Four Tops singer who wrote a classic soul protest anthem. Dave Laing. Tue 5 Jul 2005 07.11 EDT. One day in the early 1970s, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, who has...
5. Juli 2005 · July 5, 2005. Renaldo “Obie” Benson, a founding member of the Four Tops, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer; he was sixty-nine. Doctors discovered the cancer several weeks ago during...
2. Juli 2005 · July 2, 2005 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. Renaldo “Obie” Benson, a member of the legendary Motown singing group the Four Tops, died Friday. He was 69. Benson died at a Detroit...
The concert turned out to be bittersweet; it featured a brief appearance of Levi Stubbs using a wheelchair, and a memorial to Lawrence Payton, announced by Renaldo "Obie" Benson. Benson appeared on one more PBS special and died on July 1, 2005, from lung cancer.
