Berry Gordy - Wikipedia
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.
Gordy family - Wikipedia
They were born to Georgia-reared parents Berry "Pops" Gordy Sr. (born Berry Gordy II) and Bertha (née Fuller) Gordy and raised in Detroit, where most of the siblings played a pivotal role in the international acceptance of rhythm and blues music as a crossover phenomenon in the 1960s.
Gordy Family | Motown Museum | Home of Hitsville U.S.A.
Like many other African Americans in the early 20th century, Berry Gordy, Sr. and his wife, Bertha Fuller Gordy, came North from Georgia to find a better life for themselves and their family.
Berry Gordy | Motown Museum | Home of Hitsville U.S.A.
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.
Berry Gordy's Biography - The HistoryMakers
2012年11月12日 · 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.
Motown founder Berry Gordy's brother Robert Louis Gordy Sr., …
2022年10月23日 · Recording artist, songwriter and music executive Robert Louis Gordy Sr., the youngest brother of Motown founder Berry Gordy, died Friday of natural causes at his home in Marina del Rey,...
Berry Gordy | Biography, Diana Ross, Career, & Facts - Britannica
2024年9月16日 · 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. Learn more about his life and accomplishments.
At 60, Motown set to celebrate cultural legacy - The Detroit News
2019年9月19日 · Gordy was in Detroit because his parents, Berry Gordy Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy, had moved their growing family north from Georgia in 1922, where “Pops” Gordy picked cotton and eventually...
'Motown' - The New York Times
2003年1月12日 · Berry Gordy Sr. was thirty-mature by local standards-when he married Bertha, a short, cute nineteen-year-old schoolteacher of African and Indian descent. In 1922, three years into their marriage,...
Motown: The music that changed America - BBC
2019年1月9日 · 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...