Who founded Motown?

Berry GordyMotown / FounderBerry Gordy III, known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American former 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. Wikipedia

Who was Motown’s first artist?

the Supremes
Eventually, EMI created the Tamla Motown label (“Stop! In the Name of Love” by the Supremes was the first Tamla Motown release in March 1965).

Who founded Motown Records in 1959?

Berry Gordy, Jr.
Encyclopedia Of Detroit With an $800 loan from his family, Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, adding the Motown label later that year. Gordy’s first successful act was signed as The Matadors, but their name was quickly changed to The Miracles.

Who was the founder and president of Motown Records?

Ethiopia Habtemariam (Mar 1, 2021–)Motown / CEOEthiopia Habtemariam is currently the Chairman/CEO of Motown Records. She is Ethiopian-American.
She was born on 24 September 1979 in Berkeley, California. In 1994, at the age of 14, Habtemariam began interning at LaFace Records, a label created by former Chairman and CEO of Epic Records, LA Reid. Wikipedia

Who owned Motown?

Berry Gordy Jr., the former Detroit auto worker who built Motown Records into what was once the nation’s largest black-owned business, has sold the company for $61 million to MCA Inc.

What was Motown’s first number one hit?

Fifty years ago today (May 16, 1964) the Motown Records label celebrated its first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with Mary Wells’ “My Guy,” a song written and produced by Smokey Robinson.

Who is the vice president of Motown Records?

SANTA MONICA, June 1, 2021 – Motown Records announced today that music executive and change agent Jamila Thomas has joined the label’s marketing leadership as Vice President, Artist Marketing, effective immediately.

What is the biggest Motown hit of all time?

Readers’ Poll: The 10 Greatest Motown Songs

  1. The Temptations – ‘My Girl’
  2. Marvin Gaye – ‘What’s Going On’
  3. Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
  4. The Temptations – ‘Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone’
  5. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – ‘Tracks of My Tears’
  6. The Temptations – ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg’