{"id":726,"date":"2026-09-18T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:49:44","slug":"rosalind-ashford-original-martha-and-the-vandellas-singer-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Ashford, original \u2018Martha and the Vandellas\u2019 singer, dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosalind Ashford is gone, and with her, a piece of Motown\u2019s soul. The original Martha and the Vandellas singer who powered \u201cDancing in the Street\u201d and \u201cHeat Wave\u201d has died at 83, and the music world is reeling. Friends are grieving, fans are remembering, and one final, heartbreaking tribute has left Motown fa\u2026 <strong>Continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She was still a Detroit schoolgirl when she stepped up to a microphone with friends and unknowingly helped invent a sound that would circle the globe. As one of the original Martha and the Vandellas, Rosalind Ashford\u2019s harmonies turned simple pop songs into anthems, giving joy and defiance to a generation dancing through chaos and change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>From \u201cCome and Get These Memories\u201d to the immortal \u201cDancing in the Street,\u201d her voice threaded through nearly two dozen R&amp;B hits and carried her all the way to the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, only the second all\u2011female group to be honored there. Offstage, she worked a regular job, raised a family, and kept performing with former Vandellas, never chasing the spotlight she so clearly deserved. Now, as tributes pour in and Martha Reeves\u2019 words echo with grief, the records remain \u2014 proof that Rosalind Ashford\u2019s voice will never truly fall silent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosalind Ashford is gone, and with her, a piece of Motown\u2019s soul. The original Martha and the Vandellas singer who powered \u201cDancing in the Street\u201d and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}