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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.
Berry Gordy. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy, Jr. was the seventh of Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy’s eight children. He tried many careers—boxing, record store ownership, assembly line worker and a tour in the U. S. Army during the Korean War—until he found a niche in the world of entertainment.
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Berry Gordy Gifts $5 Million to Establish New Music Industry Center at UCLA
Music industry legend and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. has pledged $5 million to establish The UCLA Berry Gordy Music Industry Center. The center — launched in affiliation with The ...
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$5M Gift Establishes Berry Gordy Music Industry Center at UCLA | KFI AM 640 | LA Local News
Motown founder Berry Gordy has pledged a $5 million gift to UCLA to establish the UCLA Berry Gordy Music Industry Center, it was announced Tuesday. The new center, launching in the 2024/25 academic ...
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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.
A man of vision, drive, talent, and determination, Berry Gordy became a boxer, songwriter, producer, director, entrepreneur, and founded Motown—the hit-making enterprise born in Detroit, Michigan. He discovered and nurtured the careers of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and The ...
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...
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...
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...