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Mic legend Marv Gaye's send wife Janis Hunter Gaye died on Saturday at her home on Rho Island, her fay have said

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JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66

Jan Gaye, the send wife of Marv Gaye, died Saturday at her home. She sang background on 'Got to Give It Up' and wrote a book about their marriage. * marvin gay wife *

“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement after notg how “eply sadned” she was by her mother’s passg. Marv Gaye died at the age of 44 three years later after beg shot twice the cht by his father at the Crenshaw District home he shared wh his parents.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE DI AGED 66

Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown great Marv Gaye and the spiratn for several of his songs, died Saturday Rho Island. She was 66. * marvin gay wife *

Marv Gaye wrote his 1974 h “Jan” for the woman who would bee his send wife, featurg the lyrics, “See, Janis is unique/ One of a kd/ Who says she lov me/ When she go to sleep, I kiss her face/ And thk I’m the luckit man/ And I’m her greatt fan/ There is no sweeter girl all the land (Land)/ Than my Jan (Jan), Janis (Janis), Jan (Jan), oh Jan (Janis)/ Jan (Jan). Janis Hunter Gaye was the spiratn to several songs of her late hband’s durg the years they were together (Getty Imag)Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of sger Marv Gaye, has died aged 66, her fay has Gaye passed away on Saturday at her home Rho Island of an undisclosed beme the spiratn to several songs of her late hband’s durg the years they were together, after first meetg 1973 durg a rerdg ssn Los Angel, where he rerd his inic album Let’s Get It On, released that was married to Motown founr Berry Gordy’s sister at the time, and was 34 when he met 17-year-old Hunter Gaye.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66

Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife and ocsnal me of famed sger-songwrer Marv Gaye, has died at age 66. She […] The post Janis Hunter Gaye, send wife of Marv Gaye, ad at 66 appeared first on TheGr. * marvin gay wife *

The pair eventually married 1977 and had two 1974, the mician wrote the song Jan ditn to Hunter Gaye, clud his 1974 album Marv Gaye Live!, and his 1976 album I Want You was nsired by songwrer Michael Eric Dyson to be “a romantic and erotic” tribute to 1974, the mician wrote the song Jan ditn to Hunter Gaye (Leia Clancy, You've Got Three Mut)Hunter Gaye later featured background vols for Gaye’s 1977 dis h Got to Give It Up, which reached the top of the Billboard charts. The pair divorced was later shot and killed, aged 44, by his own father Gaye’s ath after Gaye’s album What’s Gog On was re-released this summer, celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the Gaye discsed her relatnship wh the famo mician memoir After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, released Gaye’s dghter Nona announced her ath a statement (Getty Imag)The late thor was brought up as a foster child, and left a children’s home to live wh her mother Barbara Hunter aged 17.

Dghter Nona Gaye gave tribute to her mother a statement, followg the news of her said: “From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early. Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and the spiratn for several of his songs, died Saturday of an undisclosed e at her home Rho Island, her fay announced. Hunter Gaye was troduced to the sger by producer Ed Townsend durg a 1973 rerdg ssn at Hsville Wt Los Angel for his album Let’s Get It On, which was released that year.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66

She was the spiratn behd several popular Marv Gaye songs. * marvin gay wife *

Gaye wrote the song “Jan” for his future wife and rerd for his 1974 album, Marv Gaye Live!, and his 1976 album, I Want You, has been scribed as “a romantic and erotic tribute” to her. Acrdg to her fay, Hunter Gaye put together the inic outf — red watch p, bead nim shirt and silver red-laced platform boots— that Gaye donned for his memorable 1974 ncert performance at the Oakland Colism. “From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement.

“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said.

After his divorce om Gordy Gaye was falized 1977, Janis and Marv Gaye would spire her hband to rerd numero songs about her, cludg “Jan” for his 1974 “Marv Gaye Live!

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SHE WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, HUNTER GAYE DIED ON SATURDAY (DEC. 2) OF AN UNDISCLOSED E AT HER HOME RHO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“FROM THE TIME SHE MET MY FATHER, SHE WAS EXPOSED TO THE WAY HE SAW THIS WORLD WAS ACHG, AND SHE DID HER BT TO PRERVE HIS LEGACY AS HE WAS TAKEN OM FAR TOO EARLY,” HER DGHTER, NONA GAYE, SAID A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ADDG, “SHE TOOK EVERY MOMENT TO SPEAK ABOUT EVERY WORD AND EVERY NOTE OF HIS MIC, AND SHE WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNEW THE MAN SHE FELL LOVE WH. I WILL NEVER GET TO SEE HER AGA THIS LIFE BUT KNOW SHE’S HEAVEN WH MY FATHER AND A SPOKPERSON FOR SPIR.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: IRENE CARA, OSR-WNG SGER OF ‘FLASHDANCE’ AND ‘FAME’, DI AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: R&B SGER JOYCE SIMS DI AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARV GAYE WROTE THE SONG “JAN” FOR HUNTER GAYE, THE RERD APPEARED ON HIS 1974 ALBUM, MARV GAYE LIVE!. HIS 1976 ALBUM I WANT YOU HAS ALSO BEEN LABELED AS A TRIBUTE TO HER AND 1977 HIS SGLE “GOT TO GIVE IT UP,” FEATURED HER BACKGROUND VOLS ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PAIR WERE MARRIED OM 1977 AND DIVORCED 1981. GAYE DIED 1984 AFTER BEG SHOT BY HIS FATHER LOS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2015, SHE PUBLISHED HER MEMOIR, AFTER THE DANCE: MY LIFE WH MARV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SURVIVORS ALSO CLU SON FRANKIE, SISTER SHAWNN, BROTHER MARK AND GRANDSON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DONATNS N BE MA TO ARMS AROUND THE CHILD, BREATHE WH ME REVOLUTN AND/OR FUND A MOM, HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MIC NEWSMARV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;HEIGHT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;TOP:306PX;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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”However, the marriage between Marv and Janis was short-lived, wh much of their relatnship marred by Gaye’s alleged physil and psychologil abe of Hunter Gaye. They separated the late 1970s and divorced 1981, two years before Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marv Gaye 2015, Hunter Gaye wrote a memoir about her tumultuo relatnship wh her late hband, “After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye.

THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE

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“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” her dghter, Nona Gaye, said a, “She took every moment to speak about every word and every note of his mic, and she wanted to make sure everyone knew the man she fell love wh. Marv Gaye was a tan of Motown soul durg s heyday, a pop perfectnist wh a voice like velvet who gave a generatn of lovers a soundtrack to exprs their feelgs. Janis Hunter was a mother of two her early 20s when her longtime lover, father of her children and one of the world’s most lted-after soul sgers, Marv Gaye, suggted an amoro liaison wh another uple.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Janis Hunter Gaye met the legendary at age 17, and they weled two children before divorcg 1982" emprop="scriptn * marvin gay wife *

Marv Gaye’s immense, unniable talent for sgg and songwrg, and his equally impossible-to-dismiss sex appeal, were acpanied by creasgly heavy dg e — eebasg e eventually did him — and erratic moods, a nstant tug of war between thrills, love, lt and terror. Soon after, they ma love for the first time Gaye’s sparse one-bedroom apartment, which had a “hio gold uch” where Gaye’s assistant, a junkie named Abe, had taken up rince. Gaye got over his body hangups (for a while), and they settled to fay life, spendg their days high on ke and pot as Gaye wrote and produced new mic.

MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY

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When Beverly me for a vis, Gaye not only booked him a room at a lol motel but booked the adjog room for Hunter, sayg he need her out of the hoe so he uld foc on mic. Gaye — now almost 40 — plaed to his 22-year-old wife about her saggg breasts and her stretch marks, explag, “There’s a big difference between pleasure and excement. Soon after, Gaye left Jan and the kids behd on a planned trip to Hawaii wh his fay, begng a pattern that would repeat over the years of Gaye leavg LA and his fay behd, only to implore them to jo him once at his statn.

ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD: MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92

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Courty of Jan Gaye The next five years saw Gaye, Jan and their children embroiled nasty back-and-forth battl, cludg, after Jan brought the kids to see Gaye Hawaii, his refg to let Frankie leave, g Jan to not see her son for over a year.

INSI MARV GAYE'S TOXIC MARRIAGE WH WIFE JANIS HUNTER

Fd out the tails of Marv Gaye's relatnship wh his send ex-wife, Janis Hunter, who had three children wh him and wrote a book to tell the tale of their love. * marvin gay wife *

The great sger would later reveal shortly before his ath that the boy was adopted, a revelatn that was later proven to be Gaye on stage at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 1, 1980. "Soul sger Marv Gaye hugs his children, Nona Gaye and Frankie Chirstian Gaye at an event cir 1981 | Photo: Getty ImagThe picture showed Marv Gaye III's three sons and his two dghters huddled together and sg wh a picture of himself and his wife photoshopped to Gaye III is also a mician, jt like his father; he released a track tled "Can't Take My Ey Off You" 2013 and posted a picture of the track ver on Twter wh a lk to watch the vio letter talked about how their father would handle the GAYEThe late Marv Gaye also had two more children, asis om his son Marv Gaye III. FRANKIE GAYEAlthough not much is known about his third child Frankie Gaye, he once joed his siblgs to pen down a letter to clear misnceptns about the succsful lawsus agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams's h song "Blurred L.

" The letter also talked about how their late father would have reacted to the said if he were alive, he would embrace the technology available to artists, but he would also be vigilant about protectg artist's rights and givg cred where is IS MARVIN GAYETheir late father, Marv Gaye, was a talented sger and is known for his ol jazz mic and his ntroversial lyrics. Acrdg to TMZ, sourc close to the fay revealed that Gordy Gaye died at her Los Angel home om natural and was disvered by fay members at around 3 a. The public spl spired the rerdg of Gaye’s double album "Here, My Dear" -- an album whose existence was mandated by the terms of the divorce settlement, which also required Marv to pay royalti om the project toward Anna's alimony.

JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

In 2007, tste for Anna forced Gaye III out of the rince an effort to sell the home, acrdg to ABC Gordy Gaye is survived by her brother Berry and her adopted son You GoNotable People We've Lost In 2014Popular the CommunyYou May Like. Includg his ath 1984 at the hands of his own father (an act his father claimed was self fense, but for which he was later nvicted of voluntary manslghter, per Bgraphy) Marv Gaye's personal life tells a different story. Though passnate, Gaye's marriage wh Hunter was filled wh substance abe, sexual impropriety, and trma, as Hunter rerd her memoir, "After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, " per New York Post.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

Gaye had also enuraged Hunter to engage sex acts wh other people for his enjoyment prr to their marriage, but she never agreed, per New York Post.

MARV GAYE’S 2ND WIFE JANICE HUNTER GAYE HAS DIED – SHE WAS 66 | WATCH MARV SG ‘JAN’

As Janis Hunter rells her memoir, she was her early 20s when Marv Gaye erced her to a nonnsensual sex act wh another uple, and she relented agast her will. It has been nfirmed that sger, thor, manager, stylist — and ex-wife of the legendary late sger Marv Gaye — Janis Hunter Gaye has passed at me to many of Marv’s songs died on Saturday (Dec. 3), at her Rho Island rince, their dghter Nona Gaye om To Pay Tribute To Marv Gaye Durg People's Choice Awards 2021Clarence Gilyard Jr., Famed Actor, Dead At 66'Flashdance' And 'Fame' Sger Irene Cara Dead at 63Jan Gaye attends Songwrers Hall Of Fame 47th Annual Inductn And Awards at Marrtt Marquis Hotel on June 9, 2016 New York Cy.

MARV GAYE III FIL FOR DIVORCE OM WIFE WENDY 2 MONTHS AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE ARRT

(Photo by Larry Bac/Getty Imag for Songwrers Hall Of Fame)Acrdg to UdisverMic, Nona issued the followg statement followg the ath of her mother:“I am eply sadned by the passg of my mother, Janis Gaye.

MARV GAYE'S WIFE JANIS HUNTER DI AGE 66 AFTER SPIRG IN'S ALBUM

(L-R) Nolan Shaheed, Jan Gaye, David Rz and Harry Weger speak durg An Eveng wh Marv Gaye’s “You’re The Man” at The GRAMMY Mm on April 02, 2019 Los Angel, California. She also red about so many people the world, and I will do everythg I n to put to actn the thgs she wanted and help ntue the Gaye legacy, ” add Nolan Pentz, her grandson.

Further mentg, Nona Gaye stated, “My mom was immensely proud of her grandson, Nolan, and how he stepped up as a young man, like a soldier, to help the fay and lend support tim of need. ” Asi om thorg her 2015 memoir After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye, she also managed the actg reer of Nona Gaye — who had rol The Matrix, Ali and sger Marv Gaye hugs his children, Nona Gaye and Frankie Chirstian Gaye at an event cir 1981. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag)Per Billboard, Hunter Gaye met Marv as a teenager when he was the procs of rerdg his sensual 1973 h “Let’s Get It On.

The late stylist put together Marv’s inic silver and red-laced platform boots, bead nim shirt and red p outf that he wore at his historil Marv Gaye Live!

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

"From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, " dghter Nona Gaye told the outlet a statement.

He and Janis first met the early 1970s, when she was jt 17 and Gaye was still married to Anna Gordy, the sister of Motown rerds founr Berry Gordy. In her 2015 memoir After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, Janis relled their first meetg, which took place after producer Ed Townsend, a iend of her mother's, brought the teenager to Gaye's rerdg stud.

Their unn was tumultuo at tim, and Gaye admted to PEOPLE 1983 that he'd once menaced Janis wh a knife after they separated, and also arranged for their then-4-year-old son to be kidnapped Hawaii. *Stylist, manager, thor, JANIS GAYE, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and the subject of several of his songs, died Saturday, December 3, at her home Rho Island. She also red about so many people the world, and I will do everythg I n to put to actn the thgs she wanted and help ntue the Gaye legacy, ” add Nolan Pentz, her grandson.

MARV GAYE'S 2ND EX-WIFE JANIS CHEATED ON HIM WH 2 FAMO SGERS AMID ABIVE RELATNSHIP THE 1970S

Further mentg, Nona Gaye stated, “my mom was immensely proud of her grandson, Nolan, and how he stepped up as a young man, like a soldier, to help the fay and lend support tim of need. Gaye acted as Marv’s stume signer, puttg together the inic outf he wore for the famed Oakland ncert—the silver red-laced platform boots, the bead nim shirt, the red watch p.

MARV GAYE’S EX-WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE AD AT 66

Marv Gaye III, the elst son of legendary sger Marv Gaye, has filed for divorce om wife Wendy, two months after he was arrted on domtic vlence charg. Wendy said her filg that Gaye grabbed her by the neck "and lifted her off the ground, " and when her Jasme Gordy me to her fense, he "began physilly attackg her as well. Wendy also alleged that Gaye abed her "multiple tim over [the] past 12 years, " and threatened her wh a gun on "multiple" ocsns, though she never lled the police.

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HE RERD SONGS BY SMOKEY ROBSON BEFORE BEG HIS OWN PRODUCER ON THE PROTT ALBUM WHAT'S GOG ON (1971). GAYE'S LATER RERDS VELOPED HIS PRODUCTN STYLE AND YIELD SEVERAL HS, CLUDG "LET'S GET IT ON," "SEXUAL HEALG" AND "I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE." GAYE WAS KILLED 1984 DURG A DOMTIC DISPUTE WH HIS FATHER.EARLY LIFESGER MARV PENTZ GAYE, JR., ALSO KNOWN AS THE "PRCE OF SOUL," WAS BORN WASHGTON, D.C., ON APRIL 2, 1939. GAYE WAS RAISED UNR THE STRICT NTROL OF HIS FATHER, REVEREND MARV GAY SR.—MARV GAYE JR. ADD THE "E" ON THE END OF HIS NAME LATER LIFE—THE MISTER AT A LOL CHURCH, AGAST A BLEAK BACKDROP OF WISPREAD VLENCE HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD, GAYE OFTEN FOUND PEACE MIC, MASTERG THE PIANO AND DMS AT A YOUNG AGE. UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL, HIS SGG EXPERIENCE WAS LIMED TO CHURCH REVIVALS, BUT SOON HE VELOPED A LOVE FOR R&B AND DOO-WOP THAT WOULD SET THE FOUNDATN FOR HIS REER. IN THE LATE 1950S, GAYE JOED A VOL GROUP LLED THE NEW MOONGLOWS. THE TALENTED SGER HAD A PHENOMENAL RANGE THAT SPANNED THREE VOL STYL AND HE SOON IMPRSED THE GROUP'S FOUNR, HARVEY FUQUA. IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE GAYE AND FUQUA BOTH ME TO THE ATTENTN OF DETRO MIC IMPRAR {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BERRY GORDY JR. AND WERE SIGNED TO GORDY'S LEGENDARY MOTOWN RERDS.MOTOWN RERDSGAYE'S FIRST CERTIFIED H UNR HIS OWN NAME WOULDN'T E UNTIL 1962, BUT HIS EARLY YEARS AT MOTOWN WERE FULL OF BEHD-THE-SCEN SUCCS. HE WAS A SSN DMMER FOR MOTOWN LEGENDS SUCH AS LTLE STEVIE WONR, THE SUPREM, THE MARVELETT AND MARTHA AND THE VANLLAS. SHOWG HIS STRIP AS MOTOWN'S RENAISSANCE MAN, GAYE WENT ON TO BREAK TO THE TOP 40 FOR THE FIRST TIME ON HIS OWN 1962 WH HIS SOLO SGLE "HCH HIKE." THROUGHOUT THE 1960S, GAYE WOULD SHOW HIS IMMENSE RANGE, CHURNG OUT SOLO DANCE HS AND ROMANTIC DUETS WH H-MAKERS LIKE DIANA ROSS AND MARY WELLS. "CAN I GET A WNS" AND "I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE" WERE SOME OF GAYE'S BIGGT HS OF THE PERD, THE LATTER ACHIEVG S PLACE AS MOTOWN'S BT-SELLG SGLE OF THE 1960S. FOR THREE HIGH-FLYG YEARS, GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL WOWED THE UNTRY WH THEIR SOARG DUET PERFORMANC OF SONGS LIKE "A'T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH" AND "IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU." UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR REIGN AS THE ROYAL COUPLE OF R&B END WHEN TERRELL SUCCUMBED TO A BRA TUMOR 1970. HIS BELOVED PARTNER'S ATH HERED A DARK PERD FOR THE SGER, WHO SWORE NEVER TO PARTNER WH ANOTHER FEMALE VOLIST AND THREATENED TO ABANDON THE STAGE FOR GOOD.POLIL MSAGEIN 1970, SPIRED BY LATG VLENCE AND POLIL UNRT OVER THE VIETNAM WAR, GAYE WROTE THE LANDMARK SONG "WHAT'S GOG ON." DPE CLASH WH MOTOWN OVER THE SONG'S CREATIVE DIRECTN, THE SGLE WAS RELEASED 1971 AND BEME AN STANT SMASH. ITS SUCCS PROMPTED GAYE TO TAKE EVEN MORE RISKS, BOTH MILLY AND POLILLY. WHEN WAS RELEASED THE SPRG OF 1971, THE WHAT'S GOG ON ALBUM SERVED TO OPEN GAYE UP TO NEW DIENC WHILE MATAG HIS MOTOWN FOLLOWG. DEPARTG OM THE TRIED AND TE MOTOWN FORMULA, GAYE WENT OUT ON HIS OWN ARTISTILLY, PAVG THE WAY FOR OTHER MOTOWN ARTISTS LIKE WONR AND MICHAEL JACKSON TO BRANCH OUT LATER YEARS. BEYOND FLUENCG HIS PEERS, THE ALBUM GARNERED WISPREAD CRIL ACCLAIM, WNG THE ROLLG STONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD.CROSSOVER SUCCSIN 1972, GAYE MOVED TO LOS ANGEL AND SOON MET JANIS HUNTER, WHO WOULD LATER BEE HIS SEND WIFE. INSPIRED PART BY HIS NEWFOUND PENNCE, GAYE RERD ONE OF THE MOST REVERED LOVE ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME, "LET'S GET IT ON." THE SONG BEME HIS SEND NO. 1 BILLBOARD H, CEMENTG HIS CROSSOVER APPEAL ONCE AND FOR ALL. SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, MOTOWN PHED GAYE TO TOURG TO PALIZE ON HIS MOST RECENT SUCCS; RELUCTANTLY THE SGER-SONGWRER RETURNED TO THE STAGE. THROUGH MOST OF THE MID-1970S, GAYE WAS TOURG, LLABORATG OR PRODUCG. WORKG WH DIANA ROSS AND THE MIRACL, HE PUT OFF RELEASG ANOTHER SOLO ALBUM UNTIL 1976. HE NTUED TOURG AFTER THE RELEASE OF I WANT YOU (1976) AND, AFTER SRG A NO. 1 H 1977 WH THE DANCE SGLE "GOT TO GIVE IT UP," RELEASED HIS LAST ALBUM FOR MOTOWN RERDS (HERE, MY DEAR) 1978. (DES LATER, "GOT TO GIVE IT UP" WOULD BEE THE CENTER OF A BIG NTROVERSY. IN 2013, GAYE'S TATE ASSERTED THAT PRODUCER/SONGWRER PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND SGER/SONGWRER ROB THICKE HAD MTED PYRIGHT GEMENT BY TAKG MAJOR MIL ELEMENTS OM THE DIS TRACK FOR THE MEGA-H "BLURRED L." AFTER A SE WHICH THICKE TTIFIED THAT HE'D HAD LTLE TO DO WH THE WRG OF THE SONG, THE JURY LED FAVOR OF GAYE'S FAY, WHO WERE AWARD $7.3 LN DAMAG AND PROF SHAR. THE JURY ALSO LED THAT NEHER WILLIAMS OR THICKE HAD PURPOSELY MTED GEMENT.) AFTER TWO S AT MOTOWN, GAYE SIGNED WH CBS'S COLUMBIA RERDS 1982 AND BEGAN TO WORK ON HIS LAST ALBUM, MIDNIGHT LOVE. THE LEAD SGLE OM THAT ALBUM, "SEXUAL HEALG," BEME A HUGE EBACK H FOR THE R&B STAR AND EARNED HIM HIS FIRST TWO GRAMMY AWARDS AND AN AMERIN MIC AWARD FOR FAVORE SOUL SGLE.PERSONAL LIFEIN 1975, GAYE'S WIFE ANNA GORDY—BERRY GORDY'S SISTER—FILED FOR DIVORCE, AND TWO YEARS LATER GAYE MARRIED HUNTER, WHO HAD BY THEN GIVEN BIRTH TO THEIR DGHTER, NONA (BORN SEPTEMBER 4, 1974) AND THEIR SON FRANKIE (BORN NOVEMBER 16, 1975). GAYE ALSO HAD AN ADOPTED SON (MARV PENTZ GAYE III) OM HIS PREV MARRIAGE. THE SGER'S MARRIAGE TO HUNTER PROVED SHORT LIVED AND TUMULTUO, ENDG DIVORCE 1981.DEATH AND LEGACYDPE HIS SUCCSFUL EBACK THE EARLY 1980S, GAYE STGGLED BADLY WH THE SUBSTANCE ABE AND BOUTS OF PRSN THAT HAD PLAGUED HIM FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE. AFTER HIS LAST TOUR, HE MOVED TO HIS PARENTS' HOE. THERE HE AND HIS FATHER FELL TO A PATTERN OF VLENT FIGHTS AND QUARRELS THAT RELLED NFLICTS THAT HAD HNTED THE FAY FOR S. ON APRIL 1, 1984, MARV GAYE SR. SHOT AND KILLED HIS SON AFTER A PHYSIL ALTERTN; THE FATHER CLAIMED HE ACTED SELF-FENSE BUT WOULD LATER BE NVICTED OF VOLUNTARY MANSLGHTER. THREE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH, GAYE WAS DUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. CREATG BETIFUL ART OM A TROUBLED LIFE, GAYE AGA AND AGA BROUGHT HIS VISN, RANGE AND ARTISTRY TO THE WORLD STAGE. AT THE END OF HIS REER, HE ADMTED HE NO LONGER MA MIC FOR PLEASURE; STEAD, HE SAID, "I RERD SO THAT I N FEED PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT THEY FEEL. HOPEFULLY, I RERD SO THAT I N HELP SOMEONE OVERE A BAD TIME."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}NAME: MARV GAYEBIRTH YEAR: 1939BIRTH DATE: APRIL 2, 1939BIRTH CY: WASHGTON, D. C.BIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATGENR: MALEBT KNOWN FOR: MARV GAYE WAS A SOUL SGER-SONGWRER WH MOTOWN THE 1960S AND 1970S. HE PRODUCED HIS OWN RERDS AND OFTEN ADDRSED NTROVERSIAL THEM.INDTRIPOPASTROLOGIL SIGN: ARIINTERTG FACTSBEFORE MAKG AS A SOLO ARTIST, MARV GAYE PLAYED DMS FOR ARTISTS SUCH AS STEVIE WONR AND THE SUPREM.DEATH YEAR: 1984DEATH DATE: APRIL 1, 1984DEATH STATE: CALIFORNIADEATH CY: LOS ANGELDEATH COUNTRY: UNED STATFACT CHECKWE STRIVE FOR ACCURACY AND YOU SEE SOMETHG THAT DON'T LOOK RIGHT,NTACT !CITATION INFORMATIONARTICLE TLE: MARV GAYE BGRAPHYAUTHOR: EDORSWEBSE NAME: THE WEBSEURL: ACCS DATE: PUBLISHER: A&E; TELEVISN NETWORKSLAST UPDATED: APRIL 19, 2021ORIGAL PUBLISHED DATE: APRIL 2, 2014QUOTES

Mic legend Marv Gaye's send wife Janis Hunter Gaye died on Saturday at her home on Rho Island, her fay have saidMarv Gaye's wife Janis Hunter Gaye di age 66 after spirg in's albumMarv Gaye's send wife Janis Hunter Gaye has died age 66, her fay have said. Gordy Gaye herself wrote three of Marv’s songs: “God Is Love” and “Fly’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” om 1971’s landmark album What’s Gog On and “Jt to Keep You Satisfied” om 1973’s Let’s Get It On. Wh ltle sh to pay for back tax and Anna’s divorce settlement, Gaye agreed to pay Anna $600, 000, wh the first $307, 000 g om an advance agast royalti off his next album and the remag $293, 000 to be paid om any future royalti.

Gaye began work on Here, My Dear, a btally hont tobgraphil acunt of his relatnship wh Anna; s tl –”When Did You Stop Lovg Me, When Did I Stop Lovg You, ” “You Can Leave, But It’s Gog to Cost You” – exemplified the album’s personal them. Crilly maligned upon s 1978 release (dis fans did not want to hear a double-album about breakups and heartache), Here, My Dear has sce beme an sential album Gaye’s talog and is often ced as one of his bt works. Fd out the tails of Marv Gaye's relatnship wh his send ex-wife, Janis Hunter, who had three children wh him and wrote a book to tell the tale of their love.

Gaye's past romance had been filled wh ntroversi, and a story me to light when Hunter wrote a book tled "After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, " where she scribed tails of their relatnship. And were signed to Gordy's legendary Motown RerdsGaye's first certified h unr his own name wouldn't e until 1962, but his early years at Motown were full of behd-the-scen succs.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

"Can I Get a Wns" and "I Heard Through the Grapeve" were some of Gaye's biggt hs of the perd, the latter achievg s place as Motown's bt-sellg sgle of the 1960s. For three high-flyg years, Gaye and Tammi Terrell wowed the untry wh their soarg duet performanc of songs like "A't No Mounta High Enough" and "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You. Departg om the tried and te Motown formula, Gaye went out on his own artistilly, pavg the way for other Motown artists like Wonr and Michael Jackson to branch out later years.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MARVIN GAY WIFE

Jan Gaye, Marv Gaye's send wife, is ad at 66 - Los Angel Tim .

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