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Jun 28, 2021 · Berry Gordy Jr found fame and fortune as a record executive, producer, songwriter, film producer and TV producer. He founded the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which became the highest-earning African-American business for several decades.
Nov 28, 2023 · Berry Gordy: The Visionary Who Made Motown | uDiscover. The founder of Motown Records was born in the city he helped make synonymous with soulfulness, Detroit, on November 28, 1929. Published on....
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...
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May 13, 1971 · Music. The Motown Story: How Berry Gordy Jr. Created the Legendary Label. The label's best songs and how its writers, performers and producers created its singular sound. By Jon Landau. May 13,...
Berry Gordy. Motown founder, songwriter, producer, director. Honoree. The 44th Kennedy Center Honors. 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.
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...
Berry Gordy | Songwriters Hall of Fame. Berry Gordy's first success as a songwriter came with Jackie Wilson's 1957 hit "Reet Petite" Browse Song Catalog: ASCAP Listen Now. Berry Gordy. Inductee. 1929 Born. 2017 Inducted. Gordy formed a record company in 1959, Tamla Records, which would become Motown.
