![]() He delivered a hot-off-the-press love letter, and the audience swooned with every line. Smokey rode its sensual rhythm smooth and slow as his body shook and he crooned in his trademark falsetto for six minutes. ![]() The performance – one of many that earned him approving screams from the multi-generational women of the audience at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan on August 31st – was his new, recently recorded, soon to be single from a Spanglish album set for winter release. The sight becomes easier to understand when you realize that the elderly sex symbol is also among America’s greatest songwriters and singers, and a monument of musical history – Smokey Robinson. It’s amusing and amazing to see a line of 30-something and middle-aged women holding their cell phones and cameras high in the air, aided by the tippy toes of their high heels, to snap pictures of a 71-year-old man in a sparkling purple jacket, tight jeans, and black cowboy boots, while he slowly shakes his hips and sings “ tu me besas muy rico” (“you kiss me so good”).
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