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Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), also known 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.
Sep 16, 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.
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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.
Jan 1, 1994 · Berry Gordy is transparent, frank, intimate and personal in his autobiography. He does not hold back in sharing the joy, heartbreak, good, bad and ugly of Motown. Berry is careful to acknowledge the people behind the scenes, working quietly in the background, who are just as much a part of Motown's success as the people upfront, in the spotlight.
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Feb 17, 2016 · In 1994, he wrote his autobiography, To Be Loved, and it is that book that forms the basis of his most recent project, a stage production, Motown: The Musical. Written by Gordy, it charts the story of Motown's rise, packing more than 40 hits into two-and-a-half hours.
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.
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Relocating to Los Angeles in 1972, Gordy produced the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross, while Motown continued to produce big hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a nonperformer in 1988 and published the autobiography To Be Loved in 1994.
