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Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), also known as Berry Gordy Jr., [5] is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film 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.
Rockwell is the son of Berry Gordy. Rockwell's paternal half-sister is actress Rhonda Ross Kendrick , the eldest child of Diana Ross . He is also closely related to the group LMFAO through his half-brother Redfoo ( Stephen Kendal Gordy , son of Berry Gordy and Nancy Leiviska) and his half-nephew Sky Blu ( Skyler Austen Gordy , son of his half ...
LMFAO (an initialism for Laughing My Freaking Ass Off) [4] was an American electronic dance music duo consisting of Redfoo [5] and Sky Blu. [6] [7] [8] Redfoo is the youngest son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and Nancy Leiviska.
The Motown founder connected with coach Dan Campbell, general manager Brad Holmes and owner Sheila Ford Hamp on Sunday ahead of the Lions-49ers game.
Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson will be honored as next year’s MusiCares Persons of the Year, celebrating the legacy of The post Gordy, Robinson named MusiCares’ 2023 Person of the Year ...
In the fall of 1960, the group auditioned for Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Gordy turned the act down, prompting the group to pay a visit to the home of Johnson's cousin, R&B star and Gordy associate Jackie Wilson. Wilson in turn got the Contours a second audition with Gordy, at which they sang the same songs they had at the first audition, the ...
Broadway veteran J. Daughtry has picked up a special skill: He’s really good at playing Motown Records mogul Berry Gordy. In some eras of musical theater, that wouldn’t be as useful a talent ...
In 1957, Ruffin met Berry Gordy Jr., then a songwriter with ambitions of running his own label. [6] Ruffin lived with Gordy's father, a contractor, and helped "Pops" Gordy do construction work on the building that would become Hitsville USA, the headquarters for Gordy's Tamla Records (later Motown Records) label.