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Jaleel Ahmad White (born November 27, 1976)[1] is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor while making guest appearances on dozen of television sitcoms before portraying Robert Richmond on the short-lived sitcom Charlie & Co (1985-1986) and also gained a lot of prominence for portraying Steve Urkel, his cousin Myrtle Urkel, and then even his alter ego role as Stefan Urquelle on the sitcom Family Matters (1989–1998),[2] where he was originally intended to make one appearance. White eventually became the main protagonist of the show. White was the first American actor to voice the Sega video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, doing so in the animated series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (also known as Sonic SatAM) and Sonic Underground. After Family Matters ended, White starred in the short-lived UPN comedy series Grown Ups (1999–2000) and appeared in supporting roles in the films such as Who Made the Potato Salad? (2006), and also an additional supporting role as Detective Hamer in the two films including The Wrong Woman (2013) and Mommy, I Didn't Do It (2016); and even as James Black in the film The Preacher's Son (2017) and its 2018 sequel The Choir Director, and even reprising his role as Steve Urkel in the film Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie (2023).
Motown is an American Record Company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has also become a nickname for Detroit. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the most succesful proponents of what came to be known as the Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence. Those artists who signed to Motown were Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5. During the 1960s, Motown achieved spectacular success for a small record company: 79 Records in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 record chart between 1960 and 1969. For many decades, Motown was the highest-earning African American Business in the United States.
