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Biography

Name: Berry Gordy, Jr.
Birth Date: 1929
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman, songwriter, entrepreneur

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Biography of Berry Gordy, Jr.
1,328 words, approx. 4 pages
Berry Gordy, Jr. (born 1929), founded Motown, the fledgling record company of 1959 that grew into the most successful African American enterprise in the United States and was responsible for a new sound that transformed popular music. Berry Gordy, Jr.,...


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Gordy, Berry (1929—) Summary
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Founder of the Motown music empire, Berry Gordy was for many years America's most successful black businessman. Gordy was one of eight children from a middle-class family in Detroit; his father, Berry Gordy, Sr., was a contractor and...
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Gordy Jr., Berry Summary
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Born November 28, 1929Detroit, Michigan Music industry business manager;founder of Motown Records Berry Gordy Jr. In 1959, thirty-year-old Berry Gordy Jr. was a former...
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Berry Gordy Information
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Berry Gordy, Jr. (b. November 28 1929, Detroit, Michigan) is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label and its many...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The Berry Gordy of tropical Latin music
06/21/1998: 1,941 words, approx. 7 pages
NEW YORK -- There was a time when the term "Latin music" referred to music exported from Latin America. But in the past decade, Latin music has become a lucrative American business. The Latino population in the United States grew from 14.6 million...
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Michigan Chronicle
Berry Gordy Jr. is tired of printed allegations
09/06/1994: 896 words, approx. 3 pages
Steve Holsey Michigan Chronicle 09-06-1994 Berry Gordy Jr. is tired of printed allegations. by Steve Holsey Careless journalism recently resulted in prestigious Newsweek magazine having to print an apology to Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. An article that appeared in the...
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AP News
Motown honcho makes up with 'Dreamgirls'
2/23/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pages
The studios that released "Dreamgirls" have apologized to Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. for any confusion the film generated about the label's early days. DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures offered their apologies to Gordy, whose Motown Records and experiences are widely thought to be the basis...
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AP News
Songwriter Ron Miller dies at age 74
7/24/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
Songwriter Ron Miller, whose tunes included pop classics "Touch Me in the Morning" and "For Once in My Life," has died, his daughter said.Miller died Monday of cardiac arrest at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center after a long battle with emphysema and cancer, Lisa Dawn...
 


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