Record producer, songwriter and founder of Motown record label
Founder of Motown Records and Tamla Records.
Sold Motown Records to MCA for $61 million in 1988.
Father, with Diana Ross , of Rhonda Ross Kendrick
Borrowed $800 to start Tamla Motown Records.
Grandfather of Jermaine Jackson II.
Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (under the category Non-Performer) in 1988.
Father of songwriter Stefan Gordy by producer Nancy Leiviska.
Father of Rockwell by ex-girlfriend Margaret Norton. Ex-father-in-law of Jermaine Jackson.
Jobete, the music publishing company that he founded was named after his three oldest children: Hazel JOy, BErry and TErry.
Has 8 children altogether: Hazel Joy, Berry, Terry, Kerry, Sherry, Kennedy, Rhonda and Stefan.
Brother of Anna Gordy Gaye , George Gordy and Robert L. Gordy.
Former brother-in-law of Harvey Fuqua and Marvin Gaye.
Is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in "The Jacksons: An American Dream" .
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Wrote the introduction to Michael Jackson s autobiography "Moonwalk".
Friends with Smokey Robinson.
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
