Four Tops singing for 44 years with the Four Tops who, unlike many Motown groups, never had a single lineup change until then. At first, Levi Stubbs, Obie Benson, and Duke Fakir toured as a trio called "The Tops". In 1998, they recruited former Temptation Theo Peoples to restore the group to a quartet. By the turn of the century, Stubbs had become ill from cancer; Ronnie McNeir was recruited to fill the Lawrence Payton position and Peoples stepped into Stubbs' shoes as lead singer. Stubbs later died on October 17, 2008 at his home in Detroit. The group also did commercials
Shlomit Levi Shlomit Levi Shlomit Levi (; born March 9, 1983) is an Israeli singer. She is a member of the folk metal group Orphaned Land, performing on their albums "Mabool" (2004), "The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR" (2010) and "Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs" (2018). She currently performs with American guitarist Bruce Burger in the world music duo Shlomit & RebbeSoul. Levi was born in Kiryat Ekron to a Yemenite Jewish family before moving to Rehovot when she was 10. Her parents came to Israel from Yemen as teenagers during Operation Magic Carpet. She began singing at the age of three