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Berry Gordy’s unparalleled contribution to music and popular culture is chronicled in his autobiography, To Be Loved: The Music, The Magic, The Memories of Motown. It is the basis for his play, Motown the Musical , which premiered on Broadway in 2013, garnering four Tony nominations, and The New York Times calling it Broadway’s “biggest ...
May 13, 1971 · 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 ...
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 ...
Nov 12, 2012 · Gordy resides in Palm Desert, California. Berry Gordy was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 17, 2012. Songwriter and music executive Berry Gordy was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929 to Berta and Berry Gordy, Sr. He attended Northeastern High School, but dropped out his junior year to pursue a featherweight boxing career ...
Jun 16, 2023 · In fact, Motown Records as we know it has only been around since 1960, but its influence is mighty. Much of that is thanks to Berry Gordy Jr., Motown's founder. Gordy was born in the Motor City in 1929 and his beginnings are a classic Great Migration experience. Born the seventh of eight children, Gordy's father moved the family from Georgia to ...
Sep 10, 2023 · Famously, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to launch the biggest African-American-owned business of its era. Considering that his background included boxing, running a record shop that went bust and ...
Dec 6, 2021 · WASHINGTON — Before he created a Detroit music juggernaut, Berry Gordy Jr. was a little-known songwriter with an $800 loan and a homemade studio. Sixty-two years later, alongside a black-tie ...
