fakir
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Gordy noted that the original Four Tops — Fakir, Levi Stubbs, Lawrence Payton and Renaldo “Obie” Benson — “always amazed me with their showmanship, class and artistry.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving member of beloved Motown group The Four Tops, has passed away at the age of 88.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
Fakir, born in 1935 in Detroit, was the son of a factory worker from what’s now Bangladesh and a Black mother who was a musician and a minister’s daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
"It's a nest of vipers," said Ebrahim Fakir of Auwal, a South African socio-economic research institute.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2022
Fakir, fa-kēr′, or fā′kėr, n. a member of a religious order of mendicants or penitents in India, &c.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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