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Esther Gordy
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(AP) — Esther Gordy Edwards,
who helped build Motown Records
alongside her brother Berry Gordy
Jr. and led efforts to turn its original
Detroit headquarters into a museum,
died Aug. 24 at the age of 91.
Edwards was a Motown execu
tive for nearly three decades, hold
ing numerous leadership positions
within the music company whose
artists included Stevie W onder,
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles,
The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The
Temptations and The Four Tops.
Motown Records, which Berry
Gordy started with a family loan in
would become Motown memorabilia
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and set to work on preserving the old
1959, churned out scores of global
hits from the building it dubbed
"Hitsville, U.S. A." in Detroit.
Wonder has praised Edwards for
being like a mother to him when he
joined the label as a child. She is
credited with helping Wonder en
roll in the Michigan School for the
Blind, as well as managing and guid
ing the careers of Robinson, Gaye,
Diana Ross and others.
"She believed in me — when I
was 14 years old and many other
people didn't or could only see what
they could at the time, she champi
oned me being in Motown," Won
der said in a statement. "I shared
with her many of my songs first
before anyone else."
When Motown and most of her
family moved to California, Edwards
stayed behind. She amassed what
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headquarters, including the label's
famed Studio A. The large stately
former house on West Grand Boule
vard opened as a museum in 1985.
"I always thought I was the vi
sionary in the family but I missed the
biggest thing of all when Esther
turned the so-called trash left be
hind after 1 sold the company in 1988
into a phenom enal w orld-class
m onum ent at the spot w here
Hitsville started — the Motown
museum," Berry Gordy said in a
statement Thursday.
Gordy also said Edwards gave
him "the hardest time" when he
sought to get the family loan to start
w hat w ould becom e M otow n
Records. She became, he said, "one
of my biggest assets at Motown."
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the sixth annual Sum m er in Sep
tem ber Jam balaya Festival and
Barbecue on Saturday, Sept. 10,
from noon to 6 p.m. at Dawson
Park in north Portland.
Live musical entertainment will
be featured, as well as dance les
sons by the Cascade Zydeco Club.
Presenting sponsors are Dignity
Memorial, NW Natural, the Albina
and East Portland Rotary, and
Varsity Blue BBQ.
The culinary team for this event
is headed by Loaves & Fishes Cen
ters Board Member Teletha Ben
jam in and Loaves & Fishes Centers
Executive Director Joan Smith, both
of whom have connections to south
ern Louisiana. The pair will be using
a traditional Creole-style jambalaya
recipe passed down in Teletha’s
family. Proceeds from the event will
provide hot meals to seniors served
by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Loaves
and Fishes Center in northeast Port
land.
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Luther King Jr. Center has evolved
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