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Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929) known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., [5] 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.
Apr 25, 2024 · Berry Gordy (born November 28, 1929, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American businessman, founder of the Motown Record Corporation (1959), which became the most successful Black-owned music company in the United States. Through Motown, he developed the majority of the great rhythm-and-blues (R&B) performers of the 1960s and ’70s, including ...
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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.
Nov 28, 2023 · A company that was started with a loan of $800 went on to help shape the sound of the 20th century. We could only be talking about Motown Records, founded on January 12, 1959 by Berry Gordy Jr ...
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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 Post ...
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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 ...
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 ...
