The Miracles/History

==1955-1959: Origins==
Detroit teenagers William Robinson, Pete Moore and Ronald White were longtime childhood friends and began singing together while in fifth grade. In 1955, Robinson, nicknamed "Smokey" by his uncle; Moore, and White started a doo-wop vocal group they named The Five Chimes while attending Northwestern High School. Singers Clarence Dawson and James Grice completed the original lineup. Within a year or two, Dawson and Grice would be replaced by singing cousins Emerson and Bobby Rogers, leading to the group's first name change to The Matadors. Robinson and Rogers were born in the same hospitol on the same month, date and year but didn't actually meet until fifteen years later.