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

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 ...

Exploring the work and importance of Maxine Powell, the forgotten figure who formed an essential part of the Motown story, training the label's performers.

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

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

MusiCares' Person of the Year dinner saluting Smokey Robinson and Motown's Berry Gordy featured Brandi Carlile, ... The record label impresario was frequently caught on camera with his fists in ...

*Berry Gordy launched Motown in June of 1958, but it wasn’t until the 60s when the Detroit record label began cranking out consecutive hits en route to becoming “the Sound of Young America ...