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Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, [2][3] and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. [4] . Its name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered.
Gordy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2016, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. Early years.
16 Νοε 2018 · During the first half of the ’60s, Motown earned six Grammy nominations. The groundbreaker was 1962’s “You Beat Me To The Punch” by Mary Wells, not in contention as an R&B recording but in the soon-to-be-scrapped Rock & Roll category. She and four other nominees (Sam Cooke, the Four Seasons, Neil Sedaka, the Drifters) lost out to Bent ...
9 Ιαν 2019 · Pop music. Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set up the hit factory of Motown. Arwa Haider looks at how an independent record label created one of the most influential sounds of the 20th Century.
16 Σεπ 2024 · Motown, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history. It gave its name to the hugely popular style of soul music that it created.
26 Οκτ 2024 · Berry Gordy, American businessman who founded (1959) the Motown Record Corporation, which became the most successful Black-owned music company in the United States. Through Motown, he developed the majority of the great R&B performers of the 1960s and ’70s.
28 Σεπ 2009 · In 1961, the single became Motown’s first song to occupy the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Notwithstanding Ales’ success, it was three black teenage girls from a Detroit housing ...
