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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 unparalleled contribution to music and popular culture is chronicled in his autobiography, To Be Loved: The Music, The Magic, The Memories of Motown. It is the basis for his play, Motown the Musical , which premiered on Broadway in 2013, garnering four Tony nominations, and The New York Times calling it Broadway’s “biggest box office hit of the year.”
2. Apr. 2014 · 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.
Berry Gordy III, anche conosciuto come Berry Gordy Jr. (Detroit, 28 novembre 1929), è un produttore discografico e autore di canzoni statunitense. È conosciuto soprattutto come fondatore dell'etichetta discografica Motown Records, prima etichetta a produrre e vendere dischi di artisti afroamericani al pubblico di tutto il mondo, e come padre del cantante Rockwell e del rapper Redfoo
2. Dez. 2021 · December 2, 2021 at 8:58 a.m. EST. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, at his Los Angeles home in late October, is among this year's Kennedy Center honorees. (Jessica Pons for The Washington Post ...
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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. In 1998 he was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame, and in 2013 he became the first living person to receive the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Pioneer Award. In 2016 Gordy received the ...
13. Mai 1971 · May 13, 1971. Motown boss Berry Gordy in his office, circa 1970. RB/Redferns/Getty Images. A s surely as Atlantic was the greatest independent record company of the Fifties, Motown was the ...
