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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 18 april 2019

Berry Gordy fulfills dreams with Motown reaching 60 years

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. case their talents at a time
Associated Press when they struggled to get
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mo- their records played on
town Records founder Ber- mainstream radio stations.
ry Gordy looked out at the His label introduced and
audience at a 60th anniver- helped launch the careers
sary tribute to his ground- some of the biggest selling
breaking record label and music stars from Gaye to
saw his dream of making Lionel Richie.
music for “all people” in the His label paved a way for
world fulfilled. the Motown Museum to be
Gordy told the packed Mi- built in Detroit. It was the first
crosoft Theater at the “Mo- headquarters of Gordy’s
town 60: A Grammy Cel- music empire where Won-
ebration” that he wanted der, The Supremes, the Mir-
his label to bring people acles and other performers
together from all walks of recorded hits before Mo-
life through “a legacy of town moved to California in
love.” The pre-taped con- 1972. “We didn’t even real-
cert, hosted by Smokey ize the impact of Motown,”
Robinson and Cedric the said Gordy, who started
Entertainer, with an all- the label with an $800 loan
star lineup including Stevie from his family. “In those
Wonder, John Legend, Di- In this Tuesday, Feb.12, 2019 file photo, Berry Gordy, left, and Diana Ross speak onstage during early days, the unsung he-
ana Ross, Meghan Trainor Motown 60: A GRAMMY Celebration at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. roes had the courage to
and Tori Kelly, airs Sunday Associated Press follow me down a road
on CBS. “My dream came perstar artists such as Mar- fans, and your parents, me older than I want to that didn’t even exist.”
true,” said Gordy, who vin Gaye, Michael Jack- and their grandparents. All be.” Some of Motown’s great-
started the African Ameri- son, The Temptations, The around the world. I could When Gordy launched Mo- est hits were put on display
can label in 1959, building Supremes and Diana Ross. say their great grandpar- town, he gave black musi- during the concert, which
a roster that included su- “I want to thank all of you ents, but that would make cians the platform to show- was taped in February.q

‘Deeply candid’ Demi Moore memoir coming in September

BY HILLEL ITALIE marriages, among them mother, her marriages, her
Associated Press to Bruce Willis and Ashton struggles balancing star-
NEW YORK (AP) — Nine Kutcher. “Throughout her dom with motherhood,
years after her book deal rise to fame and during and her journey toward
was first announced, Demi some of the most pivotal open heartedness. ”
Moore is ready to release a moments of her life, Moore Moore, 56, was a high
memoir her publisher calls battled addiction, body im- school dropout who be-
“deeply candid and in- age issues, and childhood came a television star in
sightful.” trauma that would follow her early 20s on the day-
Moore’s “Inside Out” is her for years — all while jug- time soap opera “General
scheduled for Sept. 24, gling a skyrocketing career, Hospital” and later starred
HarperCollins announced celebrity status, and raising in such hit films as “St. El-
Wednesday. According to a family,” HarperCollins an- mo’s Fire,” ‘’Ghost” and
the publisher, she will write nounced. “In this emotion- “A Few Good Men.” She is
openly about everything ally charged memoir, she also a longtime activist for
from her “tumultuous rela- In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, actress Demi Moore opens up about her career children’s rights and is the
tionship” with her mother, poses at the premiere of the film “Corporate Animals” during and personal life — laying co-founder of Thorn, a non-
from whom she was long the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. bare her defining tumultu- profit which combats child
estranged, to her three Associated Press ous relationship with her sex trafficking.q