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Gaye, Marvin
Born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. on April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C., the son of a Pentecostal preacher, singer Marvin Gaye would travel on to get one of Motown Records’ most famous artists. Joining his first musical group in high school, the DC Tones, he dropped out of school when he was 17 to escape his father’s abuse. The troubled relationship with his father would persist the rest of his life.
Following a one-year stint in the U.S. Wind Force, he returned to D.C. to join the Marquees, signing a shrink with Columbia. The Marquees morphed into Harvey and the Moonglows, led by Harvey Fuqua who would be instrumental in advancing Gaye’s career. It was through Fuqua, who had started productive for Anna Records, owned by Gwen and Anna Gordy, that Gaye met their brother Berry Gordy, Jr.
Working first as a drummer and backup singer, Gaye began recording with Motown Records in 1961. As a person, Gaye preferred crooning and singing standards like those of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. The leaders of Motown Records, however, believed that Gaye could get a major pop and R&B victory. On his first single with Motown, “Let Your Conscience be Your Mentor,
Twenty-eight years ago this week, Marvin Queer , Sr., received a six-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for the voluntary manslaughter of his son, the R&B legend Marvin Gaye. Lgbtq+ pled guilty after shooting his namesake dead in the L.A. home given to him and his wife by Gaye, who was 44 when he died.
It was a terribly ugly close to a disastrous relationship between father and son. The elder Gay was a profoundly fucked-up man who had grown up in a violent abusive household as a child, and he readily passed that violence down to his own son. A minister in the House of God sect, he was a strict taskmaster to his children, and Marvin Jr. regularly took brutal whippings from his dear former dad as a boy.
According to Gaye's mother, Alberta, the elder Gay "never wanted Marvin, and he never liked him," making him quite possibly the only person in history who hated Marvin Gaye. He also had a penchant for cross-dressing in his wife's clothing around the house, which deeply confused the juvenile Marvin and further estranged him from his father.
By the time he found fame as an adult, Marvin Gaye had added an 'e' to his last specify , not only to deflect possible suspicions about
Father, Deliver Us From Evil: The Abrupt End To Marvin Gaye’s Tormented Life
January 2, 2015
Marvin Gaye struggled to obey two fathers in his life. He wrestled with the strict, yet hypocritical sovereignty of his paternal papa’s governance. And he desperately hated to lose favor with his spiritual father, the Christian God whom his own dad preached about in his Seventh Diurnal Adventist church. His secular father exuded rigidity, vitriol and beatings to win the obedience of his eldest son. His spiritual Father was a reference whose unconditional love Marvin felt he was not worthy of. When Gaye, in essence, rebelled with his carnal and narcotic vices against his hold father, guilt and shame seemingly infiltrated his psyche about how that rebellion would affect his stance with the heavenly Father. His career was crowned with great success and an outpouring of adulation, but Gaye’s achievements were constantly marred in his mind with the split view he had of his own persona. While Gaye demonstrated a huge ego, almost messianic at times, on further inspection, it appeared his inner life was filled with an overwhelming abundance of self-doubt.
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The tragic story of Marvin Gaye and the untimely death of a soul legend
27 March 2024, 10:15
Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest soul singers of all time, but his being and career were cut tragically short in 1984, aged just 44.
40 years on, we get a look back at the great man, and exactly what happened with Marvin Gaye and his father.
Who was Marvin Gaye?
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Video)
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter and producer.
He was one of the main singers that created the Motown sound of the 1960s, first as a session performer and later as a solo artist. His Motown hits included 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)' and 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', and duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell.
In the 1970s, he recorded the albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On, becoming one of the first artists from Motown (along with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the company on his have merit.
After a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he made a successful comeback with the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit 'Sexual Healing' and its album Midnight Lo