Marvin Gaye
Composer and Musician
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Gingerbread Festival in Marblehead will feature more than 100 creations...a well-regarded soul and funk band with several gold selling albums and Grammy nominations. The six-piece band took the influences of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Donny Hathaway, and others to develop their own authentic sound. Thursday, 8 p.m.,... In this article: Grammy, Crooked Still, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and The Average White Band |
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Daily Mail | 10 hours ago
In a taxi with... Rising R&B star (and Oxford graduate) Mr Hudson
...women - but I was afraid of them when I was younger because I didn't understand them. At university, I would try everything, have Marvin Gaye music and flowers in my room, but none of it worked with girls. I was a real romantic, but...
In this article: Ben, Kanye West, Mr Hudson, R&B, Sting, A Tale of Two Cities, David Bowie, Birmingham, and 808s & Heartbreak
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St. Petersburg Times | 1 day ago
In concert, Cook keeps things cool
...adoring crowd, ambling on and cracking wise as if you were shooting pool with the dude. At one point, he improv-ed a snippet of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. ("Not even on the set list!" he mock-bragged.) And he had a warm, crowd-juicing...
In this article: (I Just) Died In Your Arms, I Did It, Shattered Dreams, Chris Daughtry, Johnny Hates Jazz, Cutting Crew, and Let's Get It On
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Detroit News | 2 days ago
Music renews the Christmas spirit
...for a guy who's made Motown covers a second career, he kicks off with "That's What Christmas Means to Me," co-written by Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy (and recorded by Stevie Wonder). Sometimes he veers into a more folksy vein, as when he...
In this article: Andrea Bocelli, David Archuleta, Motown, Jacksons, Britten Sinfonia, Christmas Collection, Christmas music, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and I'll Be Home for Christmas
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Independent.co.uk - Music | 2 days ago
Ways to say goodbye
...and, indeed, a "Requiem". Vocals float in and out like spectral visitors, indecipherable apart from a repeated snatch of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" - "Brother, there's far too many of you dying". Could the avoidance of lyrics reflect...
In this article: Vini Reilly, Tony Wilson, Sean Combs, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eric Clapton, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, The Notorious B.I.G., and Factory Records
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Independent.co.uk - Music | 2 days ago
Mayer Hawthorne - Haircut's worked it all out
...the score-writers of expensive TV adverts. Hawthorne's unique "sound" and manner combines the timeless elegance of Barry White or Marvin Gaye with the raised eyebrow of, say, the Divine Comedy. You don't have to take my word for it, either.
In this article: Peanut Butter Wolf, Barry White, John Mayer, Ashton Kutcher, Motown, Jarvis Cocker, and Los Angeles
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MTV.com | 5 days ago
Usher's Raymond Vs. Raymond Pushed Back
...on in his life, as any artist would," Cox said, referring to Usher's divorce from Tameka Foster-Raymond. "All the greats did it. Marvin Gaye did Here, My Dear. All the greats express where they are personally." Cox said the album will tell...
In this article: Usher and Here, My Dear
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Independent.ie | 7 days ago
Stars mark Motown's 50th birthday
...My Girl by The Temptations, The Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye. "The pleasure is mine to be here," Gordy said during a pre-concert reception. "I'm thrilled I got the...
In this article: Motown, Berry Gordy, Detroit, My Girl, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, The Tears of a Clown, Dave Bing, Detroit Pistons, and Otis Williams
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AP Online | 7 days ago
Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala
...Girl" by The Temptations, "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. Rock showed his affection for the Motown sound and city in his 2008 video for the song, "Roll On." It...
In this article: Detroit, Motown, Kid Rock, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Motown, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, and Aretha Franklin
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Daily Express | November 20, 2009
EastEnder Motown magic for Children in Need
EastEnders' Patsy Palmer, Sid Owen and Danniella Westbrook on Children In Need EASTENDER Ricky Butcher as Marvin Gaye anyone? Or how about his ex-wives Bianca and Sam as the Supremes? The EastEnders characters may be embroiled in a messy...
In this article: Patsy Palmer, Sid Owen, Danniella Westbrook, Terry Wogan, Justin Lee Collins, Tess Daly, and Albert Square
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ChicagoNow | November 08, 2009
Raheem DeVaughn's 'Bulletproof' is modern day version of Marvin Gaye's 'Inner City Blues'
...paying bills, increasing crime, war overseas and taxes. Sound familiar? Born on April 2, 1939 in , Marvin Gay aka Marvin Gaye (who later added the "e" to "Gaye" when he signed up with Motown) started off traveling with his father at the...
In this article: Raheem DeVaughn, Inner City Blues, R&B, Tax, Inflation, What's Going On, Motown, and Ludacris
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Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
Due to solo hits including "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, he was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul".
Notable for fighting the hit-making but restrictive Motown process in which performers and songwriters and producers were kept separate, Gaye proved with albums like his 1971 What's Going On and his 1973 Let's Get It On that he was able to produce music without relying on the system, inspiring fellow Motown artists such as Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson to do the same.
His mid-1970s work including the Let's Get It On and I Want You albums helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the late seventies, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death. Gaye was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984. He was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye #6 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked #18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
- Name At Birth:
- Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.
- Birth Date:
- April 02, 1939
- Birthplace:
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Death Date:
- April 01, 1984
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Occupation:
- Singer-songwriter, composer, musician, record producer
- Instrument Played:
- Vocals, keyboards, drums, percussion, clavinet, synthesizers, piano
- Record Label:
- Motown (Tamla-Motown), Columbia
- Years Active:
- 1958–1984
- Associated With:
- The Moonglows, Martha and the Vandellas, Tammi Terrell, The Originals, Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross, Harvey Fuqua
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