Smokey Robinson show

Grammy Award-winner Smokey Robinson is performing at the Kettering Medical Center Foundation’s Heart to Heart on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m., at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, One W. Second St., in Dayton.

Tickets can be purchased at ticketcenterstage.com or by calling Ticket Center Stage at 937228-3630.

Robinson is a legendary singer-songwriter, record producer, record executive and co-founder of Motown Records.

Robinson and his group, the Miracles, met Berry Gordy after a failed audition for singer Jackie Wilson’s managers. Gordy was impressed with Robinson’s vocals and ambitious songwriting. With his help they released, “Got a Job.” It was the beginning of a successful collaboration and the beginning of Motown.

Robinson has been inducted into the Kennedy Center, awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a second star with the Miracles. He was awarded a medal at the National Medal of Arts, A Heritage Award at the Soul Train Music Awards and a BET Lifetime Achievement Award. Howard University conferred on Robinson the degree of Doctor of Music as did the Berklee College of Music.

Now spanning three decades, Heart to Heart has focused regional attention on Kettering Medical Center’s benchmark cardiovascular program and has raised over $7.5 million for advanced medical technology, patient-centered education and recovery, community cardiac and stroke screening and outreach, and advanced caregiver training.

All of this, and much more, has been made possible by the generous sponsors, donors, and patrons of Heart to Heart, as well as the thousands who have been part of the great concert audiences.

For more information, visit www.ketteringhealth.org.