Published December 13. 2020 12:01AM
By Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star Tribune Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
He s been cutting two records, one in Spanish, the other in English. Playing a little golf, too. And he checked on the grape harvest in the pre-fire Napa Valley for his eponymous wine company.
But during the pandemic, Motown legend Smokey Robinson has performing only one concert in a virtual gala for the PACER Center, the Bloomington, Minnesota-based nonprofit that works with children with disabilities and combats bullying. I rented out the Roxy, a little club here in Los Angeles, Robinson said. The film crew came in. I have a six-piece band and three singers. No audience. It was really weird without an audience, but we had fun because I hadn t seen everybody in a long time. The last actual concert that we did was in February. Robinson filmed the performance in early October.