Berry Gordy Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for Berry Gordy, based on 2 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

2 records1959–19602 events0 places

Chronological biography

1959

Motown Records1959

Arts / Popular Music

Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown record company to mass-market black music, the Miracles, "Shop Around"

1960

Little Stevie Wonder1960

Arts / Popular Music

Little Stevie Wonder, as he is called by Berry Gordy at Motown, is discovered singing & playing the harmonica

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.