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Berry Gordy
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American record producer, founder of Motown Records
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Berry Gordy Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, film producer, and autobiographer. Born Berry Gordy III in Detroit, Michigan, on November 28, 1929, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War. His professional career began in 1957, and he is associated with the Motown record label. Gordy has worked within the genres of rock music, rhythm and blues, soul, and pop music.
He has received the Grammy Trustees Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors, and holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is also recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame collection. Gordy is the father of Redfoo, Rockwell, and Rhonda Ross Kendrick. His unmarried partner was Diana Ross, and he is related to Jimmy Carter. He speaks American English and uses the pseudonym The Bear.
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Film & TV
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 — Self2020
- Marilyn and I — Self2019
- Hitsville: The Making of Motown — Self2019
- Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Self2017
- Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall — Self2016
- James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message — Self2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Palm Desert
- Active from
- 1929
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,040
- Total plays
- 7,892
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Genre
- doo-wop
- Record label
- Motown
- Sport
- boxing
- Conflict
- Korean War
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Image
- BerryGordyDec10.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1929-11-28
- Commons category
- Berry Gordy
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- name in native language
- Berry Gordy Jr.
- birth name
- Berry Gordy III
- pseudonym
- The Bear
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- unmarried partner
- Diana Ross
- relative
- Jimmy Carter
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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