Berry Gordy Jr.
Born November 28, 1929Detroit, Michigan
Music industry business manager;founder of Motown Records
Berry Gordy Jr. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.
In 1959, thirty...
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Gordy, Berry (1929—)
Founder of the Motown music empire, Berry Gordy was for many years America's most successful black businessman.
Gordy was one of eight children from a middle-class f...
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Berry Gordy, Jr. (born 1929), founded Motown, the fledgling record company of 1959 that grew into the most successful African American enterprise in the United States and was responsible for a new sou...
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Gordy Jr., Berry
Gordy, Berry (1929-)
Berry Gordy, Jr.