Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939. He started singing at the age of five in his father’s Apostolic church. In his teens, Marvin was already playing piano and drums and he discovered “do-wop” music. He joined several groups, including the Dippers and The Tones. After a brief stint in the ...
Motown Records has been, admittedly, one of the largest and most successful independent record labels in the history of music. Founded by Berry Gordy Jr., an inspirational and insightful leader, who assembled a diligent group of musicians, producers, songwriters, and artists, Motown has changed the sound of music in the 1960s, not only in the ...
The 1960’s was the era of social and cultural revolution as well as the doorway to radical change in the music industry. Breaking down conservative walls and paving the road to music as we know it today, it was the decade in which Motown made its debut featuring such artists as Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, ...
Motown. Who doesn’t love it? The storied Detroit-based record label run by Berry Gordy, Jr. fused pop, r&b;, soul, and gospel, and whatever else was around, into bite-sized two or three minute songs handed down to the fans by stylish, ultra-talented African-American singers the likes of which white America (and if you take Oprah’s word ...
