MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

Contents:

• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• WHEN MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS FATHER
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• “I GOT WHAT I WANTED” – WHY MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN DAD WH A GUN MARV BOUGHT FOR HIM
• MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

At the peak of his reer, Marv Gaye was the Prce of Motown—the soulful voice behd hs as wi-rangg as “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy).” Like his label-mate Stevie Wonr, Gaye both epomized and outgrew the crowd-pleasg sound that ma Motown famo.

That life me to a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when Marv Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday.If the physil e of Marv Gaye’s ath was straightforward—”Gunshot wound to cht perforatg heart, lung and liver,” acrdg to the Los Angel County Coroner—the events that led to were much more tangled.

HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR

Marv Gay, Sr., (the “e” was add by his son for his stage name) was a preacher the Hebrew Pentestal Church and a proponent of a strict moral he enforced btally wh his four children. Clearly harbored unrolved feelgs toward his abive father.Those feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta.

Only one year removed om his first Grammy w and om a triumphant return to the pop charts wh “Sexual Healg,” Marv Gaye was horrible physil, psychologil and fancial shape.After an argument between father and son lated to a physil fight on the morng of April 1, 1984, Alberta Gay was tryg to lm her son his bedroom when Marv Sr. Marv Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary sger durg his fal mut, later wrote his memoir that Marv Gaye’s fal, disturbg statement was, “I got what I wanted….I uldn’t do myself, so I ma him do .”Also on This Day History April | 1.

But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home.

WHEN MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS FATHER

13Marv Gaye was shot ad by his own father 1984Cred: Redferns. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday. 13Marv Gay Sr was arrted for the shootgCred: AP:Associated Prs.

At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad. As Gaye’s fame grew, so did his pennce on dgs and his creasgly erratic behavur.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. The moment Marv Gaye's dad is sentenced after shootg him ad.

On April 1, 1984, mician Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his own father. Here, we break down Marv Gaye’s ath and why his father was never punished for the murr of his son.

Marv Gaye always had a straed relatnship wh his father. Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. ” Throughout his childhood, Marv Gaye suffered abe at the hands of his father nearly every day.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

Even Marv’s mother, Alberta Gaye, knew that her hband hated her son. Dpe beg a succsful mician, Marv Gaye moved back to his parents’ home late 1983.

“I GOT WHAT I WANTED” – WHY MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN DAD WH A GUN MARV BOUGHT FOR HIM

At this time, Marv Gaye was stgglg wh bt, prsn, and a e addictn. Marv Gaye wh his parents, Marv Gaye Sr., and Alberta Gay, cir 1972.

On Christmas Day, 1983, Marv Gaye had given his father a Smh & Wson. Alberta Gaye wh fay durg Funeral Service for Marv Gaye at Fort Lawn Mortuary Hollywood, California. The first shot was enough to kill Marv, but after he fell to the ground, Gaye Sr.

Pl Bearers for Marv Gaye’s funeral service, April 5, 1984. However, police officers quickly disputed the claims that Gaye was vlently beaten after they found no ditn of bis on his head or any physil ditn that he had been kicked or punched multiple tim. After reviewg the documents associated wh the murr, cludg the amount of dgs Gaye had his system, the judge pridg over the se agreed to grant Marv Gaye Sr.

MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art. That pa largely centered on Gaye’s relatnship wh his father, Marv Gay Sr., an abive man who never wanted his son and ma no secret of . A vlent alholic, Gay took out his anger on his children — pecially Marv.

But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s.

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti. Wikimedia Commons“He wanted everythg to be betiful, ” a iend once said of Gaye.