• Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and incorporated...
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  • Universal Motown Records was an American record label that operated as a division of Universal Motown Republic Group. It was the contemporary incarnation...
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  • became the first UK rap act on Motown records". Entertainment & Arts. BBC News. Retrieved May 26, 2023. Dahl 2011, Part 1: Motown 1959–1972: Defining the Sound...
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  • UMRG was formed in 1999 by pooling together Universal Records, Motown Records, and Republic Records, (the first of the three is now defunct), but which...
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  • Universal Motown. Gordy Records Motown Records Tamla Records Tamla-Motown Records Check-Mate Records Miracle Records Motown Yesteryear MoWest Records Soul...
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  • alongside the Universal Motown Republic Group, Verve Label Group and Interscope Geffen A&M Records. In the United Kingdom, Island Records handled its own operations...
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    Berry Gordy (category Motown)
    retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label...
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  • founded by Berry Gordy Jr., in 1968, as Motown Productions, the film and television arm of Gordy's Motown Records label. It became de Passe Entertainment...
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    [page needed] Stax Records, founded by siblings Estelle and James Stewart, was the second most successful record label behind Motown Records. They were responsible...
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  • American rhythm and blues record label Motown as well as its subsidiaries and imprints. Dahl, Bill (February 28, 2011). Motown: The Golden Years: More Than...
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  • Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group. The label has been dormant...
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  • Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope Geffen A&M, Island Records, Motown Records, Polydor, Republic Records, Verve...
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  • and Atlantic Records. In October 2004, Rhone was appointed president of Motown Records and executive vice president of Universal Records. Prior to her...
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    1972, Jackson released his debut studio album Got to Be There through Motown Records, while still part of The Jackson 5. It peaked at number 14 on the US...
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    was initially an imprint of the Universal Motown Republic Group, and was renamed Universal Republic Records after a reorganization in 2006 before going...
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    purchased Golden World Records and its recording studio became Motown's Studio B. In 1972, Gordy relocated the Motown Records headquarters to Los Angeles...
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  • Biv 10 Records was founded by Michael Bivins in 1992, through a joint venture with Motown Records. In the early 1990s, Bivins’ Biv Entertainment management...
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  • Motown (1994), and on the history of his founding and running of the Motown record label, and his personal and professional relationships with Motown...
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  • He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their...
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    the new record labels independently. Barry Weiss, who previously moved from Sony Music to lead Island Def Jam Music in 2012 when Motown Records was incorporated...
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  • Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special, produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown, to commemorate Motown's 25th anniversary (Motown...
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  • Motown Magic is an animated children's television series, created by Josh Wakely, and produced for Netflix. The series follows Ben, described by Netflix...
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    Diana Ross (category Universal Motown Records artists)
    actress. She was the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling...
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  • Horvath, Zachary (January 26, 2024). "Kevin Gates Drops Nearly Featureless Record "The Ceremony"". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved March 18, 2024. Skelton, Eric....
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    Smokey Robinson (category Motown artists)
    on his role as Motown Records vice president. Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year. He left Motown in 1999. Robinson...
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  • music executive who served as the chair and chief executive officer of Motown Records from 2021 to 2022. She is Ethiopian-American. She was born in Berkeley...
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  • The Miracles were the Motown Record Corporation's first group and its first million-selling recording artists. During their nineteen-year run on the American...
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  • Dallas Austin (category Universal Motown Records artists)
    Austin, in 1994. Rowdy Records: Founded by Austin in 1992. The label was distributed by Arista Records and later, Motown Records when it was reactivated...
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  • Calling (Columbia Records, 1978) With Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, 1976) With Syreeta Wright One to One (Motown Records, 1977) The Spell...
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  • album for Uptown Records, The Show, the After Party, the Hotel. Later in 1995, Harrell left Uptown to become CEO of Motown Records, while Heavy D, executive...
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