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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.
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.
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 uDiscover salute to a man who helped to shape the sound of the 20th century, Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr, born November 28, 1929.
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...
Feb 17, 2016 · Berry Gordy now lives at the top of the world, in a Beverly Hills mansion. He is the greatest record man in American music history.
Aug 23, 1990 · On a bright Los Angeles day, Berry Gordy Jr., the man who founded Motown Records and made stars of Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Diana Ross...
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.
Interview with Motown founder Berry Gordy, the entrepreneur who gave us Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and so many others.
Dec 2, 2021 · 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) 13 min. By Robin Givhan....
1 day ago · Motown founder Berry Gordy said in a statement that Fakir helped embody the Tops’ “showmanship, class and artistry. “Duke was first tenor — smooth, suave, and always sharp,” Gordy said.
Nov 12, 2012 · Biography. 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, where he fought just fifteen matches, winning twelve.
May 13, 1971 · Inside Motown Records: How Berry Gordy Jr., writers, producers, performers – including Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye – crafted their songs.
Berry Gordy's Motown Story. Subscribe to Motown and ring the bell to never miss an update: http://classicmotown.lnk.to/YouTubeSubscribeIt all began here. "Co...
17 hours ago · They later changed their name to the Four Tops and were signed to Motown Records in 1964 by famed record executive Berry Gordy, the biography read. “[O]nce we started singing, ...
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.
Discover how Berry Gordy changed the music industry forever by founding Motown Records. Learn about his journey, challenges, and lasting impact. #Motown #Ber...
Sep 10, 2023 · Berry Gordy turned Motown into the biggest African-American business of its era, paving the way for black-owned labels that followed.
1 day ago · Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. said in a statement he was “deeply saddened” to hear of Fakir’s passing, calling him “a special member of our Motown family,” and that the Tops “always ...
Feb 16, 2009 · Board of Education cleared the way for racial integration and four years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Gordy, an African-American, initiated a pop music revolution ...
Nov 28, 2018 · Berry Gordy is the founder of Motown, Motown, one of the most successful record labels of all time. Pic credit: Broadway Shows. He helped “create a trailblazing new sound in American music. As a...
1 day ago · Many of Motown’s greatest stars, from the Supremes to Stevie Wonder, came of age at the Detroit-based company founded by Berry Gordy in the late 1950s.
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth by taking a look back at some of Motown Founder Berry Gordy Jr.'s biggest musical achievements. To learn more about today’s st...
Jun 16, 2023 · Motown's founder, Berry Gordy Jr., was born in the Motor City in 1929, and his beginnings are a classic Great Migration experience.
Berry Gordy is the greatest record man in American music history. From that modest wood-frame house in Detroit he built Motown Records, which in the 1960s and ’70s grew to become the most...
1 day ago · After a few unsuccessful stints with labels, in 1963, a decade after initially forming following a performance at a neighbourhood party, they were signed to Motown by Berry Gordy Jr.
22 hours ago · The Tops had recorded for several labels, including the famed Chess Records in Chicago, with little commercial success. But Gordy and A&R man Mickey Stevenson paired them with the songwriting-production team of Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland and they quickly caught on, blending tight, haunting harmonies (with Fakir as lead tenor) behind Stubbs’ urgent, sometimes desperate baritone.
Apr 2, 2014 · Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records in 1959. The 1960s and '70s saw popular artists who Gordy developed — including the Supremes, the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye — dominate the...
Berry Gordy III 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...
