Actor/singer/songwriter Mark Arthur Miller appears in Soul Searching: The Motown Story You Never Heard on Thursday, July 27 at 7 PM at The Green Room 42. Music direction is by Peter Smith.
Miller, and son of the late Motown hit songwriter, Ron Miller; the show has played multiple times in Los Angeles to sold-out houses at Catalina Jazz. It includes original music by Mark Arthur Miller, along with familiar soul favorites, “For Once in My Life,” “Touch Me In The Morning,” “Heaven Help Us All” (all penned by his father, Ron Miller) and a string of other major Motown hits.
Growing up in Chicago with his sister, mother and grandparents and estranged from his dad, Miller had a visceral connection to soul music he couldn’t explain—until he heard Stevie Wonder’s 1968 single “For Once in My Life” and discovered it was Ron Miller’s song. Less than three hundred miles away in Detroit, the elder Miller was the sole white songwriter at Motown, creating the kind of music Mark describes as his “DNA.” In the 1970s, the Miller teenagers re-connected with their father and moved with him to Los Angeles when Motown relocated their headquarters. There, Mark often found himself in the company of his idols, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and other iconic performers.
Tickets for Soul Searching are available here: https://tinyurl.com/2sf4kcwj
The Green Room 42 is located at 42nd St. and 10th Avenue, on the 4th Floor of the Yotel in Manhattan
