Detroit Music Hall fire: Erykah Badu tribute goes on after sixth-floor blaze

DETROIT – A tribute to singer Erykah Badu went on as scheduled Monday night at Aretha’s Jazz Café, just hours after firefighters battled a fire in an office on the sixth floor of Detroit’s historic Music Hall.

The fire was reported around 10 a.m. after a passerby saw smoke and called 911, according to Vince Paul, the Music Hall’s president and artistic director.

Cellphone video showed flames shooting from a sixth-floor corner office shortly before firefighters contained the blaze…

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