At the age of 82, Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. has announced his latest project. He is writing a Broadway musical about his life and his founding of the Motown record label in 1959.

Universal Music Group and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music aim to honor the cultural contributions of Berry Gordy with a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Motown Records founder Berry Gordy looked out at the audience at a 60th anniversary tribute to his groundbreaking record label and saw his dream of making music for "all ...

Motown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved Hits Berry Gordy’s record label used the ‘sound of young America’ to bring people together ...

Black Music Month: Honoring the legendary Smokey Robinson 04:53 (CBS DETROIT) - On Jan. 12, 1959, Motown Records was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit. Gordy used an $800 loan to start the ...

Smokey Robinson and Motown Records mastermind Berry Gordy made history together in the 1960s, when they were instrumental in creating what Motown billed as: “The sound of Young America.” Now ...

Universal Music Group and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music establish the Berry Gordy Music Industry Scholarship to honor ...

Motown founder Berry Gordy’s 95th birthday is on Nov. 28. ... Investing his profits back into a producing career, he launched his first record label, Tamla, in 1959 with an $800 family loan.

The Berry Gordy Music Industry Scholarship aligns with UMG’s ongoing Sounds of the Future campaign, launched by its Global ...

Established by music mogul Berry Gordy in 1959 (Gordy first founded Tamla Records in January 1959, and would add the Motown label to his repertoire later that year), Motown Records is single ...

Motown Founder Berry Gordy Files $10 Million Lawsuit Over Fiction ... Gordy said Timothy Bogart produced Spinning Gold which focuses on his father Neil Bogart’s record label Casablanca Records.

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and singer Smokey Robinson were honored as MusiCares Persons of the Year on Friday night. ... (Is Weak for You),” a hit on Motown’s Tamla label in 1966.