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The Temptations - Frontyard Festival - Dr. Phillips Center - Orlando - 9 December 2021

Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name. Terry Wayne Weeks (born December 23, 1963) is an American R&B and soul singer who is currently one of the lead singers of the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations. Weeks was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Serving in the Air Force, including involvement with Tops In Blue for eight years. Upon his retirement in the early-1990s, Weeks began singing locally around his home base in Alabama. After giving an impromptu audition to Temptations member Otis Williams, he was placed in a Williams/Motown side project, For Lovers Only. Following that group's only release, he was a fill-in for the Temptations, taking the place of Temptations lead Ali-Ollie Woodson, who was battling throat cancer. He would replace Woodson permanently in 1997, joining the Temptations lineup that included Williams, Ron Tyson, Theo Peoples and Harry McGilberry in 1996. Weeks sung co-lead on the group's latter day hits, "Stay" (1998) and "I'm Here" (2000). Ron Tyson has been The Temptations' first tenor for the last 29 years. Born February 8, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was raised in Monroe, North Carolina. Ron was influenced at an early age by gospel music. While singing with his grandfather's gospel group, Southern Gospel Six, he recorded his first record at the age of 7. The grandfather of pop recording duo "K-Ci and Jo Jo," founding members of the group JODECI, also sang lead with Southern Gospel Six. Ron's grandfather, Horace Presson, Sr., had a radio show that promoted gospel music. Ron traveled around, performing with his grandfather. This experience enabled him to develop an appreciation for gospel music and taught him a great deal about the music business in general. Willie Greene, Jr. is the Temptations’ bass vocalist and has been with the group since 2016. Born in Birmingham, Alabama on August 28, 1955 to Maxine and Willie Greene, Sr., he grew up in South-Central Los Angeles, CA and graduated there from George Washington High School. Greene’s desire to be an entertainer was initially sparked at age six when he saw James Brown & The Famous Flames perform on the big screen. What sealed the deal for Greene however was when he watched The Temptations perform “The Way You Do the Things You Do” and what was then their newest song “Get Ready” on The Lloyd Thaxton Show, a syndicated pop music TV program based in Los Angeles. Says Greene, “When I saw The Tempts, and heard Melvin [Franklin] sing in his bass voice, I knew I wanted to be a Temptation. When my father asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said I want to be Melvin Franklin.” Greene—who has recorded and performed with an extraordinary array of music world luminaries including Lyle Lovett, Ry Cooder, Dolly Parton, John Fogerty, and George Harrison—first learned to perform on stage in Los Angeles singing with a quintet called The Formations and moved from there to The Fellas and then The Infallibles. “In all the groups, I’ve been in through my career,” says Greene, “we were always trying to be The Temptations – not The OJ’s, not The Miracles – The Temptations. They were the ones all other groups were measured against.” In fact, before joining The Temptations Greene had performed nationally and internationally in several Temptations tribute groups including one with former Tempts Ali-Ollie Woodson, Damon Harris, and Richard Street, “That was like being in Temptations University,” says Greene. “We’d rehearse the show three hours a day, five days a week, in Richard’s back yard. He’s the one who taught me all The Temptations choreography.” Another such group, which included former Temptation Barrington “Bo” Henderson, was part of the Legends in Concert show at Harrah’s Casino in Las Vegas. Greene is convinced what prompted Otis Williams to bring him into the group was a videotape of him performing in that Harrah’s show that Greene included in the audition package he prepared for Williams in December 2015. Says Greene, “The day after he got the package Otis called me. He said we reminded him of the original Temptations. I was floored. What a compliment.” Asked what stands out most in his mind about the group, Greene says “What I take from The Temptations is how humble, loving, and genuinely decent all these guys are. They’re family to me, a loving family, and I thank God my dream from the time I was a child, to be part of the Temptations family, has come true.”