The
Commodores are an American
funk/
soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly
freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now
Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with
Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for
The Jackson 5 while on
tour.