Music · born 1948Ted Nugentguitarist, singer, songwriterThe “Motor City Madman,” Detroit-born hard-rock guitarist of the Amboy Dukes and “Cat Scratch Fever,” a fixture of the Grande Ballroom era.DETROIT / A living lexicon / ¼
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People who were born here, moved here or built their careers in Detroit: musicians, carmakers, athletes, writers, inventors, civil-rights leaders and a few notorious names. With their dates, their Detroit story and the places where they lived, worked and played, closed ones included.
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Clear filtersMusic · born 1948Ted Nugentguitarist, singer, songwriterThe “Motor City Madman,” Detroit-born hard-rock guitarist of the Amboy Dukes and “Cat Scratch Fever,” a fixture of the Grande Ballroom era.
Music · born 1955Niagarasinger, painterDetroit-born singer of the art-punk band Destroy All Monsters and a painter of pop-noir women whose shows made her the “Queen of Detroit” of lowbrow art.
MusicKaren NewmansingerSinger known as “the voice” of the Detroit Red Wings for more than 30 years of national anthems, and for the local holiday favorite “Christmas Eve on Woodward Avenue.”The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own. Famous people's places among the sights ↗