Sylvia Moy

Sylvia Moy is an acclaimed former Motown songwriter and record producer, notable for being the first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts. According to Berry Gordy's auto-biography "To Be Loved" Moy was directly responsible for the label keeping Stevie Wonder. Gordy wrote that, after Stevie's voice began to change as a result of puberty, he was going to drop him from the label. It was then that Moy went to Berry and asked "if she could come up with a hit for Stevie would he reconsider"; he agreed and the rest is history. Among the hit singles Moy wrote and/or produced while at Motown are "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" by The Isley Brothers, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" and "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder and "Honey Chile" and "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" by Martha and the Vandellas among others. She was recently inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame alongside fellow Motown songwriter and producer Henry Cosby. Sylvia continues to write and produce at her studio in Detroit.