Berry Gordy
American record producer, founder of Motown Records
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1888
- Died
- 1978
- Works
- 5
Top works
- The memoirs of Berry Gordy, Sr
- The Motowm Album
- Movin' up
- To Be Loved
- Pop Gordy Tells His Story
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Film & TV
Production · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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. 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. As a songwriter, Gordy composed or co-composed a number…
Known for
- Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan — Self2023
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2021
- Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over — Self2021
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — Self - Founder of Motown Records (archive footage)2021
- Unfiltered: Paris Jackson & Gabriel Glenn — Self
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