Levi Stubbs, Abdul Fakir, Renaldo Benson and Lawrence Payton began singing in 1953 while attending high school in [[Detroit]] under the name “The Four Ames”, but would change their | Levi Stubbs, Abdul Fakir, Renaldo Benson and Lawrence Payton began singing in 1953 while attending high school in [[Detroit]] under the name “The Four Ames”, but would change their |