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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.
May 10, 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.
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.
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 January...
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...
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.
Interview with Motown founder Berry Gordy, the entrepreneur who gave us Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and so many others.
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.
