RICHARD ALLEN STREET

RICHARD ALLEN STREET (OCTOBER 5, 1942 – FEBRUARY 27, 2013) WAS AN AMERICAN SOUL AND R&B SINGER, MOST NOTABLE AS A MEMBER OF MOTOWN VOCAL GROUP THE TEMPTATIONS FROM 1971 TO 1993. BORN AND RAISED IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN, STREET WAS THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE TEMPTATIONS TO ACTUALLY BE A NATIVE OF THE CITY WHICH SERVED AS MOTOWN’S NAMESAKE AND HOMETOWN; ALL OF THE PREVIOUS MEMBERS WERE BORN AND AT LEAST PARTIALLY RAISED IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES.