Smokey Robinson's incredible family history journey

Who Do You Think You Are? returned to our screens last night, as the TLC series continued its strong season by bringing us the family history of much-beloved music legend Smokey Robinson, who came to the show with almost no knowledge of his family beyond his maternal grandmother. Robinson was incredibly close to his mother, and when she passed away when he was 10 he says that “the world stopped. That was it.” His mother’s tragic early death from illness meant that Robinson had never explored his family history, and this line was the focus of the show.