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Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929) known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.
May 13, 1971. Motown boss Berry Gordy in his office, circa 1970. RB/Redferns/Getty Images. A s surely as Atlantic was the greatest independent record company of the Fifties, Motown was the ...
Oct 23, 2020 · By Karen Corday / Oct. 23, 2020 4:59 pm EST. Iconic soul and R&B crooner Smokey Robinson has been called "the King of Motown ," a title well-earned over his 60+ years in the music business. He was a songwriter, producer, and frontman of the vocal group the Miracles, with hits like "The Tracks of My Tears" and "Shop Around."
Feb 10, 2017 · He was a huge hit-maker, 26 top 40 songs in the 1960s, at one of the great hit machines in pop music history, Smokey Robinson, his group, the Miracles, Motown, and a string of classics, like "You ...
Jan 9, 2019 · Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set up the hit factory of Motown. Arwa Haider looks at how an independent record label created one of the most influential sounds of the 20th Century. On 12 January ...
Feb 20, 2020 · Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is hard to find in full. But thanks to Motown Records, there's a new way to hear the speech.
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Apr 24, 2024 · Motown, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history. It gave its name to the hugely popular style of soul music that it created.
