On Desert Island Discs, the former Motown Records boss Berry Gordy selected the one track he couldn't live without, which had been a hit for his label in 1965.
Berry Gordy's Motown Records defined American pop and soul music during the 1960s, but the label still exists to this day, now owned by Universial Music.
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...
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How $800 Berry Gordy Borrowed From Family At Age 29 Led Him To Eventually Sell Motown For $61M ‘To Take The Legacy And Put It In Stronger Hands’Berry Gordy became a music force thanks to an investment ... he decided to launch his own record label. Gordy would lean on ...
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Diana Ross Had A Secret Child With Her Record Label's Founder And Kept The Truth From Her DaughterRoss was romantically involved with her label founder Berry Gordy and had a secret daughter together. Rhonda Ross Kendrick, the secret child, has maintained good relationships with both her parents.
In the 1960s, Motown founder Berry Gordy reached out to Martin Luther King Jr. to see if the record label could help the civil rights leader in his cause for equality. “I saw Motown much like ...
But perhaps the most surprising relation in Mr. Carter’s extended family tree is Berry Gordy ... examined the available records of Mr. Carter’s and Mr. Gordy’s ancestry.
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