Singer Levi Stubbs, a longtime member of the Grammy Award-winning group The Four Tops who voiced the character of Audrey II in the 1986 film version of the musical Little Shop of Horrors died in Detroit on Friday, October 17. He was 72 and had been ill for many years.
The Four Tops, which originally formed in 1954, were one of Motown’s most popular acts during the 1960s, where their hits included “Baby I Need Your Living,” “I Can’t Help Myself,” “Reach Out (I’ll Be There,” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love.”
Even after leaving Motown in 1972, the group found commercial success with such songs as “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I Got)” and continued to tour. They were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Stubbs stopped performing in 2000, after suffering a stroke.
He is survived by his wife, Clineice, and their five children.
