Berry Gordy – Founder Of Motown Records

The Motown story is the story of Berry Gordy, Jr., who was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. His father ran a plastering contracting business and his mother sold insurance and real estate. When Berry got out of the Army 1953, he opened a jazz-oriented record store called the 3-D Record Mart that was financed by the Berry family. By 1955, the store had failed and Berry was working on the Ford automobile assembly line. While working on the line, Berry constantly wrote songs, submitting them to magazines, contests and singers. Gordy decided to take total control of his songs, so on January 12, 1959, he borrowed $800 from his family’s loan fund to start his own record label (not Motown). In 1959, Berry started his 2nd record label called Motown. Motown went on to become a stable in American music.

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