Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy

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 of hits including "Lonely Teardrops" and "That's Why" (Jackie Wilson), "Shop Around" (the Miracles), and "Do You Love Me" (the Contours), all of which topped the US R&B charts, as well as the international hit "Reet Petite" (Jackie Wilson). As part of the Corporation, he wrote many hit songs for the Jackson 5, including "I Want You Back" and "ABC". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Berry Gordy has received more than 7,154,893 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Berry Gordy is the 798th most popular musician (down from 777th in 2019), the 4,007th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,914th in 2019) and the 267th most popular American Musician.