{"id":16131,"count":3,"description":"Rockwell (born Kennedy William Gordy on March 15, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan) is an R&B; performer who was signed to the Motown label.\nRockwell is the son of Motown founder and CEO Berry Gordy and Margaret Norton. His father named him Kennedy William Gordy after John F. Kennedy and William \"Smokey\" Robinson. To avoid seeming nepotistic, he secured his record deal without his father's knowledge. Motown actually came up with the name Rockwell and the young Gordy agreed to the change because he believed he \"rocked well.\"\nIn 1984, Rockwell released his biggest hit single, \"Somebody's Watching Me\", featuring childhood friends Michael Jackson on guest vocals (notably in the chorus lyrics), and Jermaine Jackson singing back-up. \"Somebody's Watching Me\" became a Top 10 pop hit in both the US and UK, and a #1 R&B; hit. Follow-up singles underperformed, however, with single \"Obscene Phone Caller\", being Rockwell's only other Top 40 single. This follow-up single reached #35 on the Billboard Hot...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/rockwell\/","name":"Rockwell","slug":"rockwell","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}