Motown founder Berry Gordy donates $4M to museum expansion
DETROIT - Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is donating $4 million toward a project to expand a museum housed in the Detroit building where he built his music empire, officials announced Wednesday. Gordy's gift, which coincides with the company's 60th anniversary, is the largest individual donation to the project officially announced in 2016, the Motown Museum said. "I'm excited about the future of Motown Museum and happy to support it," Gordy said in a release. Gordy launched Motown in 1959, moved the label to Los Angeles in 1972 and sold it in 1988. Museum officials say they are not releasing fundraising totals.
Motown founder Berry Gordy donates $4M to museum expansion
DETROIT - DETROIT (AP) - Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is donating $4 million toward a project to expand a museum housed in the Detroit building where he built his music empire, officials announced Wednesday. Gordy's gift, which coincides with the company's 60th anniversary, is the largest individual donation to the project officially announced in 2016, the Motown Museum said. "I'm excited about the future of Motown Museum and happy to support it," Gordy said in a release. Gordy launched Motown in 1959, moved the label to Los Angeles in 1972 and sold it in 1988. Museum officials say they are not releasing fundraising totals.
Detroit's Motown Museum sharing key founding document for company
DETROIT - A copy of the original land contract for Motown Records' Hitsville U.S.A. in Detroit will be unveiled as part of the music company's 60th anniversary celebration. Officials with the Motown Museum, located where Berry Gordy Jr. launched his music empire, say they will share the rarely seen document via Facebook at 3 p.m. Tuesday. That coincides with the 1959 date that Gordy purchased the house on West Grand Boulevard. Museum CEO and Chairwoman Robin Terry called it "the start of a journey that would ultimately rock the world." The Supremes, the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and many others recorded hits there before Motown moved in 1972 to California.
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