Berry Gordy (born November 28, 1929, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) American businessman, founder of the Motown Record Corporation (1959), which became the most successful Black-owned music company in the United States. Who: Grammy-nominated record executive and Motown founder Berry Gordy, 91, and Grammy and Oscar-nominated singer and occasional actress Diana Ross, 77. How They Met: Ross and her singing.
Diana Ross and Berry Gordy's First Time Was so 'Embarrassing' She Had to Laugh It Off
Berry Gordy was "madly in love" with Diana Ross, the Motown founder told CBS Sunday Morning yesterday as he prepares for the official Broadway opening April 14th of his Motown: The Musical.. The "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" singer welcomed her eldest daughter, Rhonda, 52, with Motown legend Berry Gordy in 1971. The same year, Diana married her first husband, music executive. GRAMMY-nominated iconic songstress Diana Ross performed a moving medley of songs from two Motown-produced films she starred in; 1972's Lady Sings The Blues,. Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., [4] 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. [5]
Diana Ross & Berry Gordy at the May 4, 1985 taping of the TV special, Motown Returns to the
Diana Ross played her part so well it would be ludicrous to suggest that anyone else could have done it justice. The Motown Story: How Berry Gordy Jr. Created the Legendary Label , Page 1 of 3. GRAMMY-nominated iconic songstress Diana Ross performed a moving medley of songs from two Motown-produced films she starred in; 1972's Lady Sings The Blues, where she portrays the legendary Billie Holiday and sings her classics, and 1975's Mahogany.She dedicated the performance, from the Motown 60: A GRAMMY Celebration, to fellow living legend, Motown founder Berry Gordy. After signing the Supremes to his Motown record label, Berry Gordy Jr. planned to show off the group's broad musical range by adding Dean Martin's "You're No. Published February 13, 2013. ( The Root) — When Berry Gordy began Motown Records in Detroit in 1959, few people thought he would be successful, he now says. But decades after ruling the.
Diana Ross's Two Marriages and Five Children — inside the Iconic Singer's Family
Diana Ross' daughter believed Berry Gordy was her 'uncle' until she was 13 During the 1960s and 1970s, Ross and Gordy had a secret on-again, off-again relationship. According to. Diana Ross and Berry Gordy were involved in a celebrity relationship during the 1960s. The pair started their romance when Ross was the lead singer of the Supremes. Before they decided to be.
Berry Gordy and Diana Ross appeared to be an unstoppable pairing during the Supremes' rise to fame through Gordy's legendary Motown record label. As Ross' star grew, so did her relationship with Gordy, who says he had big ambitions for the all-female R&B group from the very beginning. In his biography Diana Ross, J. Randy Taraborrelli argues that Gordy coached Ross to bring up the subject of Holiday in the interview to signal her interest, even though the Motown impresario had.
Berry Gordy On Diana Ross Motown Founder Describes Fateful Moment With Supremes Singer (VIDEO
Backed by an eight-piece band, this love child of music royalty Diana Ross and Berry Gordy returns to the Iridium Sunday night to perform her own songs, an amalgam of R&B, funk and jazz she. Music mogul Berry Gordy is known as the father of Motown, but he's also a father to eight children. His eldest child, Hazel, was born in 1954. Nearly 20 years later, his youngest, Stefan, was.
