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.
How Berry Gordy built the legendary Motown Records that changed …
2018年11月28日 · Berry Gordy as a young songwriter in the 1950s — Telegraph. After co-writing hits for local singer Jackie Wilson and Smokey Robinson, Gordy, with an $800 loan from his family, purchased a...
Berry Gordy: the man who built Motown - The Daily Telegraph
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...
It Happened in Hitsville - Vanity Fair
2008年12月13日 · Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. has been described as brilliant, charismatic, genius, mentor, gambler, philosopher, gangster, ladies’ man, and father figure. At the age of five, Berry, the...
Berry Gordy Interview: The Man Who Made Motown - Best …
Interview with Motown founder Berry Gordy, the entrepreneur who gave us Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and so many others.
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.
Berry Gordy: The Visionary Who Made Motown | uDiscover
2023年11月28日 · 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.
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...
That Motown Sound: Berry Gordy, Jr. and the African-American experience
2009年2月16日 · In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr. started Motown Records in Detroit with an $800 loan from his family. Four years after Brown v. Board of Education cleared the way for racial integration and four years...
'Motown' - The New York Times
2003年1月12日 · Berry Gordy Jr. was the seventh of eight children, born in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1929, just at the onset of the Great Depression. His father was the son of freed Georgia...