Levi Stubbs baritone, most Four Tops' hits were written in a tenor range to give the lead vocals a sense of urgency. Despite being the most prominent member of the group, Stubbs refused to have separate billing (in contrast to other Motown acts such as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and Diana Ross and the Supremes), and he also turned down several offers for a solo career, out of loyalty to his bandmates. Stubbs and the other Tops remained a team until Lawrence Payton died in 1997, at which point Theo Peoples took his place. The Four Tops were inducted into the
Shannon Stubbs and Citizenship Canada case-processing centre in Vegreville, Alberta, a town within Stubbs' riding of Lakeland, to Edmonton. Stubbs likened the relocation of the centre, which provided Vegreville with 280 full-time jobs, to the loss of nearly 300,000 jobs in Toronto, Canada's largest city with a population of 2.809 million people. MP Stubbs won a 2017 MacLean's Parliamentarian of the Year award for MP that best represents constituents for her efforts to keep open the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada case-processing centre in Vegreville, Alberta. In April, 2016, Shannon went to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to visit the town where her grandmother,