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You may have picked up on this by now,

but over the last few weeks, we've been trying to put a spotlight on people who have helped others.

So what better way to wrap this season up than by celebrating those who have given us one of the greatest gifts?

Music.

It's the StoryCorps podcast from NPR.

I'm Camilla Cushani.

Music lifts you up. It gets you on your feet.

Sometimes the right track just hits your soul.

It's the one thing most people can agree on.

And the faces and the voices behind some of our favorite songs are often women,

black women, whose names you might not have heard of.

So for our last episode, we're going to try and fix that.

Not to take anything away from the artist, but it all starts with a song.

In the early 1960s, Motown was changing the face of popular music.

It became one of the most successful black-owned businesses in American history.

It was huge because you knew the entire country was listening to music coming out of Motown.

That was homegrown.

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