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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 10, 2024 · Berry Gordy, American businessman who founded (1959) the Motown Record Corporation, which became the most successful Black-owned music company in the United States. Through Motown, he developed the majority of the great R&B performers of the 1960s and ’70s. Learn more about his life and accomplishments.
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Nov 28, 2023 · Berry Gordy: The Visionary Who Made Motown. The founder of Motown Records was born in the city he helped make synonymous with soulfulness, Detroit, on November 28, 1929. Published on. November...
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THE CHAIRMAN. After years at the helm of Motown Records, Berry took the role of board chairman, allowing the younger generation an opportunity to lead the company into a new era. He sold the company in 1988, but his connection to the “Sound of Young America” is unbreakable and eternal.
Aug 23, 1990 · Berry Gordy, Motown's Founder, Talks about Hitsville USA's Stars. Music. Berry Gordy: Motown’s Founder Tells the Story of Hitsville, U.S.A. In his first in-depth interview in 20 years, the...
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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...
Dec 2, 2021 · December 2, 2021 at 8:58 a.m. EST. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, at his Los Angeles home in late October, is among this year's Kennedy Center honorees. (Jessica Pons for The Washington...
