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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 III (born November 28, 1929), also known as Berry Gordy Jr., [5] is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film 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.
Best Known For: Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records, which propelled groups like the Supremes to success and became the largest Black-owned company in the United States in the 1960s....
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.
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. He discovered and nurtured the careers of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and The ...
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.
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.
Berry Gordy was born on November 28, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a composer and producer, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Charlie's Angels (2000) and Wild Card (2015). He was previously married to Grace Easton, Raynoma Singleton and Thelma Louise Coleman.
Former boxer Berry Gordy started writing songs to make some money and "get some girls". He became American music's star-making superpower.