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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, 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 a surgery to...
6 de jul. de 2005 · Renaldo Obie Benson, que hacía las voces graves en los Four Tops, falleció el viernes 1 de julio en un hospital de Detroit, víctima del cáncer de pulmón. Obie, de 69 años, había sufrido un ...
Founded as the Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, performing from 1953 until 1997 without a change in personnel.
Levi Stubbs, Renaldo Benson, Lawrence Payton y Duke Fakir 2 fundaron el grupo y empezaron a cantar juntos en la escuela secundaria en Detroit, Michigan, originalmente llevó el nombre de The Four Aims, pero en 1956 cambiaron su nombre a Four Tops para evitar ser confundidos con los Ames Brothers. 1 Ese mismo año grabaron su primer ...
2 de jul. de 2005 · DETROIT — Renaldo “Obie” Benson, who for more than 50 years provided the bass vocal foundation to the Four Tops’ lush harmonies, died yesterday at Harper University Hospital in Detroit. He had...
2 de jul. de 2005 · Obie Benson, an original member of the Motown singing group the Four Tops and a lyricist best known for the antiwar song ''What's Goin' On,'' died here this morning. He was 69.
