Marv Gaye's Sister Zeola Fiv Her Father For Killg The R&B Legend | HuffPost Voic

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• TIL MARV GAY SR. ABED AND VICLY BEAT HIS SON THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. MARV II SAID THAT IF WEREN'T FOR HIS MOTHER HE WOULD HAVE MTED SUICI. HE ADD THE "E" TO HIS NAME TO DIFFERENTIATE HIMSELF OM HIS FATHER. MARV SR WOULD MURR MARV II 1984 DURG A FAY DISPUTE
• MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
• LOST HISTORY – WHY DID MARV GAYE’S FATHER KILL HIS SON?
• “I GOT WHAT I WANTED” – WHY MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN DAD WH A GUN MARV BOUGHT FOR HIM
• MARV GAY SR.
• MARV GAYE WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER ON THIS DAY 1984 (EUR VIO THROWBACK)
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

TIL MARV GAY SR. ABED AND VICLY BEAT HIS SON THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. MARV II SAID THAT IF WEREN'T FOR HIS MOTHER HE WOULD HAVE MTED SUICI. HE ADD THE "E" TO HIS NAME TO DIFFERENTIATE HIMSELF OM HIS FATHER. MARV SR WOULD MURR MARV II 1984 DURG A FAY DISPUTE

TiL that Marv Gay Sr., after havg shot and killed his son Marv Gaye, when asked if he loved him only rpond "Let's say I didn't dislike him". It was bee of this, add wh mors of Marv's own homosexualy, that Marv add an "e" to his last name when he beme famo. TIL that Marv Gaye's father shot and killed his famo son, but had the first-gree murr charg dropped due to the disvery of a walnut-sized bra tumor that may have impaired his judgement.

Twenty-eight years ago this week, Marv Gay, Sr., received a six-year spend sentence and five years of probatn for the voluntary manslghter of his son, the R&B legend Marv Gaye.

The elr Gay was a profoundly fucked-up man who had grown up a vlent abive hoehold as a child, and he readily passed that vlence down to his own son.

MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME

Acrdg to Gaye's mother, Alberta, the elr Gay "never wanted Marv, and he never liked him, " makg him que possibly the only person history who hated Marv Gaye. By the time he found fame as an adult, Marv Gaye had add an 'e' to his last name, not only to flect possible spicns about his own sexualy, but to distance himself om the paternal si of his fay. But 1984, Gaye moved to his parents' home Los Angel to re for his ailg mother and battle his e addictn after a long tour.

LOST HISTORY – WHY DID MARV GAYE’S FATHER KILL HIS SON?

While Marv Gay, Sr., reprents the unspeakable worst of rock-star parentg, Marv Gaye was hardly alone endurg a shty childhood.

To the horror of fans across the world, Marv Gaye Jr, the undisputed prce of soul, was fatally shot ont of his mother by his btal father, Marv Sr. Still, the motiv of Marv Gaye Sr for slghterg his namake and the circumstanc around his famo son’s ath are still strangely imprecise and unrstated. Photo Cred: legendary mician was born Marv Pentz Gay Jr 1939 to a church mister father and a domtic worker mother.

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

In Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye, a 1991 bgraphy about the sger, thor David Rz noted that Gaye’s growg up nsisted of his father’s “btal whippgs” for wrongdogs. Rz also rerds that Gaye thought of life wh his father as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg”.

Rz tells the story on page 13 as Gaye had narrated: “If wasn’t for Mother, who was always there to nsole me and praise me for my sgg, I thk I would have been one of those child suici s you read about the papers”. Gaye’s story is that of a man mold by vlence and this characterised his relatnship between himself, others and particularly, Marv Sr. Gaye n be seen as a man who had nstantly been nng away om the volatily of his childhood and not jt an acrimon relatnship wh his father.

When he beme famo, the sger add an “e” to his last name Gay bee of qutns of his sexualy and jok kids had ma of him while he was a boy. Gaye went on to w two Grammys and a host of other regnns all the while torturg the mother of his kids and snortg as much e as he uld fd.

MARV GAY SR.

He was not groomed for the glz and glamour and by all acunts of his life, Gaye did not have the love and affectn that would have kept him ground the chaos. For Gaye, the moments of life – the nasty, btish, betiful and pure – were sentially g om the same source: him and his clamour for self-termatn.

His brother Frankie said Gaye told him while dyg: “I got what I wanted… I uldn’t do myself, so I had him do … ’s good, I ran my race, there’s no more left me”.

The father of Marv Gaye said a jail cell terview published here today that he did shoot his son, but thought the weapon that killed the soul sger was load wh BBs or blanks and "I regret what happened to this moment. ' " In the terview, published today's Los Angel Herald-Examer, Gay, a retired ordaed mister, also said his son was heavily g e, which turned him to "somethg like a beastlike person... " The elr Gay--whose name is spelled differently bee his son add an "e" to the fay name when he began his reer--said his son was troubled and prone to vlent outbursts.

MARV GAYE WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER ON THIS DAY 1984 (EUR VIO THROWBACK)

Gay plead nocent to a murr charge Wednday, and was orred held li of $100, 000 bail while psychologil tts requted by his attorney are nducted. Gay said the sger-poser, who had lived his parents' home for four months, feared someone was tryg to kill him and kept guns the home.

He said the gun that fired the fatal shots belonged to Gaye, and that his son rried a gun his robe the morng of the argument that end his ath.

Gay said the argument began early April 1 when he went lookg for his wife to ask her where to fd one of the uple's surance polici.

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

"He took me om the back, " Gay said, "and he grabbed me and he slung me to the floor and he started beatg me, kickg me. Robert Mart, manr of tectiv handlg the se, said physil evince and statements om Gay's wife, Alberta, pat a different picture. " The two were separated by the mother, Mart said, and Gaye was on the bed talkg to her when the father appeared at the doorway wh a gun his hand and fired one round.

" Gay said he had seen no news acunts of the ath of his son, whose hs ranged om the 1960s Motown sound of "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" to the 1983 Grammy-wng "Sexual Healg. He was the father of Amerin rerdg artist Marv Gaye and beme famo after shootg and killg him on April 1, 1984 followg an argument at their Los Angel home.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

Gaye’s father never approved of his reer secular mic and eply rented that his son had a closer relatnship wh his mother, Alberta. Gaye’s sister Jeanne later said an terview that Marv liberately fought his father, knowg full well that he had threatened to kill him if he ever did. There were reportedly brief flash of peace between the Marv and his father, particularly after the succs of Gaye’s masterful soc-polil album “What’s Go’ On” 1971.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

The vio below ptured one of their rare moments of détente and clus nversatn about the time Gaye tried out for the NFL’s Detro Lns. Charged toward her bedroom door anyway, promptg Gaye to physilly shove his dad out of the room and to the hallway before punchg and kickg him. 38 special pistol, which Gaye had given to his father for Christmas months earlier so that he uld fend the home om trs.