Marv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, ranked - Smooth

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• MARV GAYE
• ARTIST: MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE MIDIBAND
• FREE SOUL: THE CLASSICS OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
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• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S DEATH
• HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
• MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
• ARTIST: MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• FREE SOUL: THE CLASSICS OF MARV GAYE

MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye, byname of Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., (born April 2, 1939, Washgton, D.

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When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony. After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds.

Gaye, who also played dms and piano, bucked the Motown system and s emphasis on teen hs. Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]). Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy.

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Gaye also displayed dazzlg virtuosy by overdubbg (buildg sound track by track onto a sgle tape) his own voice three or four tim to provi his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rt of his reer. ”Other major artists—most importantly Stevie Wonr—followed Gaye’s lead and acted as producer of their own efforts. In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film Trouble Man, wh lyrics that mirrored his own sense of secury.

Let’s Get It On, released 1973, displayed Gaye’s sensuo si. Here, My Dear (1979) brilliantly alt wh Gaye’s divorce om Gordy’s sister Anna (the first of the sger’s two tumultuo divorc)’s growg addictn to e exacerbated his psychologil stggl.

On April 1, 1984, durg a fay dispute, Gaye iated a vlent fight wh his father, who shot him to ath. Gaye, who ced his chief fluenc as Ray Charl, Cly McPhatter, Rudy Wt (lead sger for the doo-wop group the Five Keys), and Ltle Willie John, was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987. He received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement an artist who employed urban soul mic to exprs social and personal ncerns, as well as a sger of exquise sensivy and romantic grace, Gaye left a legacy that has wined sce his mise, and his mic has bee a permanent fixture Amerin pop.

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Marv Gaye was a sger and songwrer, known for his proment role the Motown rerd pany. C, and was raised by his father, Marv Gay, Sr, a mister, and his mother, Alberta Gay.

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As Marv began his mil reer, he was teased for his surname “Gay”, so he add an ‘E’ to the end of , which created distance between him and his father, who had a rocky relatnship.

Gaye was pronounced ad at the hospal, the day before his 45th birthday. Gaye’s father stated that he killed his son self-fense, did not know if the gun was load, and even said, “I didn’t mean to do . Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marv Gaye.

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And Price’s rner, amid the televisn meras and cigar smoke, sat Price’s manager, Marv Gaye, feelg like his whole life was on the le. Gaye often spoke boxg metaphors, and 1979 — the wake of a stly divorce om his first wife, tranged om his send, gripped by e addictn, and badly bt to the IRS — the image of the pummeled prizefighter beme particularly potent to him.

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Gaye’s relatnship to boxg wasn’t merely metaphoril. Highly petive and seemgly lnal about his abili — never md that the whole thg was meant to be a lark — Gaye was tent on actually boxg Ali. In preparatn for the Ali “fight, ” Gaye traed at the Hoover Street Gym South Central Los Angel.

But if his own limatns as a boxer were now clear, Gaye had at least found a way to stay the rg, or near : He’d bee the Hawk’s manager.

Gaye’s partnership wh Price led to three victori, before Gaye sred Price that Vegas tle shot agast Leonard, boxg’s baby-face sensatn. It was the biggt fight of Price’s reer, and jt as huge a moment for Gaye. A victory, Gaye believed, would turn his life around.

HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE

“I thk Marv suffered om this magil-thkg syndrome, ” says Rz, who met Gaye 1979. Though much has been wrten about Gaye’s downward spiral the late Seventi and early Eighti, about the rurgence of his reer the wake of “Sexual Healg, ” and his 1984 murr at the hands of his own father at the fay’s home, ltle has been wrten about this event.

MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED

It’s a story that illtrat so much about Gaye — his fears, his misplaced ias of masculy, his charms, his abily to pull profundy out of pa, his celty, and his lns. Gaye once said that when he managed fighters, when he really put his heart to them, was as if were he himself the rg.

Gordy signed Gaye 1961, and the hs followed, one after another. But spe reachg dizzyg heights of succs together, the two were, as Gaye put , “sted to clash.

” A lot of their troubl, Rz believed, stemmed om the ght relatnship Gaye had wh his father.

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Marv Gay Sr., a Pentestal mister, was physilly abive and suffered om alholism. C., Gaye was huiated by his father’s double life, feelgs that led to a lifelong stggle wh his own masculy; he even add the “e” to his last name hop of dispellg mors about his sexualy.

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“Confn about manhood would bee another great theme Marv Gaye’s life, ” wrote Rz.

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Gaye’s relatnship wh Gordy was further plited when he, 24 at the time, married Gordy’s glamoro olr sister Anna, 41. “Marryg a queen might not make me a kg, but at least I’d have a shot at beg prce, ” Gaye told Rz years later. Gaye was one of Motown’s most reliable hmakers throughout the Sixti, but wh 1971’s What’s Gog On, he beme somethg more: an ner-cy bard and soul mic’s social nscience.