James s gordy biography
James s gordy biography
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Gordy family
American family of business people
The Gordys are an African-American family of businesspeople and music industryexecutives. They were born to Georgia-reared parents Berry "Pops" Gordy Sr.
(born Berry Gordy II) and Bertha (née Fuller) Gordy and raised in Detroit, where most of the siblings played a pivotal role in the international acceptance of rhythm and blues music as a crossover phenomenon in the 1960s. The accomplishment is attributable to the creation of Motown, a company founded by the seventh-oldest sibling, Berry Gordy Jr.
(born Berry Gordy III).[2]
Origins
Berry Gordy I was the son of Georgia slave owner James Thomas Gordy and one of his female slaves, Esther Johnson. In addition, James Gordy had a son, James Jackson Gordy, with his legal wife; as the father of Lillian Gordy Carter, the younger James was the maternal grandfather of former U.S.
president Jimmy Carter, making Jimmy and Berry III and his siblings second half-cousins.[3