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Ceo of motown records1/17/2024 ![]() Both Robert and Berry liked dancing and music, but Berry's greatest interest was in boxing. While his brothers Fuller and George were happy to work at jobs their father assigned to them in construction and printing, Berry and Robert, the younger boys, were less inclined to follow that path. Gordy's father opened a grocery store, owned a plastering and carpentry business, and a printing shop. Berry Gordy II was led to Detroit both by the job opportunities offered by the booming automotive businesses, and also by worries over the atmosphere in the American South where black men were lynched "with chilling regularity by the Ku Klux Klan" in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, 1,502 lynchings were reported, most in Southern states. His half-brother, James (son of the elder James and his legal wife), was the grandfather of President Jimmy Carter. His grandfather, named Berry Gordy I, was the son of James Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and one of his slaves. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.īerry Gordy III (also known as Berry Gordy Jr.) was the seventh of eight children (Fuller, Esther, Anna, Loucye, George, Gwen, Berry and Robert), born on November 28, 1929, in Detroit, to middle-class parents, Berry Gordy II (also known as Berry Gordy Sr.) and Bertha Fuller Gordy, who had relocated to Detroit from Oconee, Washington County, Georgia in 1922. ![]() Gordy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2016, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021. He was known for carefully directing the public image, dress, manners, and choreography of his acts. As a record producer, he launched the Miracles and signed acts like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Stevie Wonder. As part of the Corporation, he wrote many hit songs for the Jackson 5, including " I Want You Back" and " ABC". Īs a songwriter, Gordy composed or co-composed a number of hits including " Lonely Teardrops" and "That's Why" ( Jackie Wilson), " Shop Around" ( The Miracles), and " Do You Love Me" ( The Contours), all of which topped the US R&B charts, as well as the international hit " Reet Petite" ( Jackie Wilson). He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades. Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. ![]()
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