Marvin Gaye
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Detroit News | November 11, 2009
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...psychedelic acts Motown gave the world the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey, Stevie and Marvin Gaye, all being celebrated in this Motown 50th anniversary year, but there's another side to the Detroit-born record company. A hard-rocking,...
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Marvin Gaye - Classic Motown
Motown founder Berry Gordy encouraged Marvin to sing R&B, and once Gaye sang the ... His records—and his ringtones and his DVDs—are still going gold. ...
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Marvin Gaye , Singer / Songwriter Born: 2 April 1939 Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Died: 1 April 1984 (shot ... As Motown Records flourished, so did Marvin Gaye. ...
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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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