Marv Gaye Drive Unveiled Detro Ahead of Jueenth Ftivi - Variety

Contents:

• ENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-GAYE
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW ANTWN GAY BROTHER OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S FAY FD AFTER $7.4M 'BLURRED L' PAYOUT
• A MISTRY MOMENT WH: MISTER ANTWN GAY! PART ONE
• MARV GAYE FACTS: MOTOWN SGER'S REER, WIFE, CHILDREN, PARENTS AND ATH EXPLAED
• FRANKIE GAYE - UPDATED JUL 2023
• LATE MOTOWN IN MARV GAYE REMEMBERED ON 75TH BIRTHDAY
• FRANKIE GAYE
• IS DREW CAREY GAY? A LOOK TO HIS PAST RELATNSHIPS!
• ANTWN GAY, YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE LATE MICIAN MARV GAYE, POS FOR A PORTRA AT THE MARV BAR AND RTRANT APRIL 2, 2014 WASHGTON, DC DURG THE 7TH ANNUAL MARV GAYE DAY CELEBRATN TO HONOR THE 75 BIRTHDAY OF SGER AND SONG WRER
• BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER SPOTLIGHTS MARV GAYE’S MIC, PLEX LIFE
• MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO AHEAD OF JUEENTH FTIVI
• 76 FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE

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ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-GAYEAntwn Gay, younger brother of the late mician Marv Gaye, pos for a portra at the Marv Bar and Rtrant April 2, 2014 Washgton, DC durg the 7th annual Marv Gaye Day celebratn to honor the 75 birthday of sger and song wrer. Gaye was shot and killed by his own father on the eve of his 45th birthday 1984, leavg behd a remarkable strg of hs -- led by "Let's Get It On, " "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" and "Sexual Healg" -- that rema pop, funk and soul classics. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo cred should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Imag)Antwn Gay, younger brother of the late mician Marv Gaye, pos for a portra at the Marv Bar and Rtrant April 2, 2014 Washgton, DC durg the 7th annual Marv Gaye Day celebratn to honor the 75 birthday of sger and song wrer.

Rtricted edorial rights elsewhere, please ll lol GO WITH AFP STORY: ENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-GAYE by Robert MacPhersonDate created:April 02, 2014. In what would have been his 83rd year, we take a look back at the great man, and exactly what happened wh Marv Gaye and his father. Marv Gaye was an Amerin sger, songwrer and was one of the ma sgers that created the Motown sound of the 1960s, first as an ssn performer and later as a solo artist.

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

Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marv Gay Sr, on April 1, 1984, at their home the Wt Adams district of Los Angel, sger was shot twice, followg an argument wh his father after he tervened an altertn between his parents. A Marv Gaye mil bpic wh the full backg of Motown is the worksMarv Gaye's isolated vols om 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' will give you tglHe was pronounced ad on arrival at the California Hospal Medil ath spired many mil tribut over the years. Alberta already had a son named Michael, but after sayg he uldn't raise another man's son, Gay sent Michael to live wh his had several children: dghter Jeanne, Marv Jr, son Frankie and dghter Zeola.

Gay also fathered a son named Antwn Carey, wh another woman followg one of his extramaral Gaye facts: Motown sger's reer, wife, children, parents and ath explaedMarv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, rankedGay was scribed as a strict father to his four children. In the days jt before his ath, Marv Gaye's parents had arguments over a misplaced surance policy day before his ath, arguments had spread to Gaye's bedroom.

However, his father charged upstairs to the bedroom to shout at Alberta, g Gaye to jump out of his orrg him to leave did not work, Gaye is said to have shoved his father out of the room, and began to kick and punch him.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW ANTWN GAY BROTHER OF MARV GAYE

Williams and Thicke were orred to pay the sum a groundbreakg pyright se which a judge led that their h Blurred L was a breach of Gaye's now Gaye's sisters have revealed the ugly rift the fay which has left one si wh the payout - and their si, they say, virtually pennils and entirely cut off om his and Jeanne Gaye told how his ex-wife Jan acced them of 'pickg on your brother's bon' and rebuffed attempts to make peace the wake of the settlement. Zeola told Daily Mail Onle that her brother would have fancially looked after all the fayThe sisters, who are 69 and 78, say they nnot even perform his songs - spe Zeola sgg the actual le Got to Give Up which was at the center of the legal what they say is a bter irony, Gaye's wife and children will receive the $7. 4m while Zeola and Jeanne are livg effectively poverty spe playg a key role Gaye's life, while his ex-wife and her children prof om the ground breakg legal se and the already rich legacy of his Jan Gaye, 55, who was married to the sger for 11 years, acced the sisters of beg 'sperate' and said she was eply hurt by an earlier book wrten by the youngt sister which acced her of fily wh soul sgers Rick Jam and Teddy exact sle of Gaye's fancial legacy has not been reliably lculated, but is clearly substantial.

4 ln over the fdg that Blurred L breached the pyright of Marv Gaye's tate bee of s closens to Got to Give Up Mil partners: Zeola Gaye (wh her brother) is the first voice to be heard on the rerdg of Got to Give Up - but nnot benef any form om the song, even a play about her brother THE BITTER TEXTS BETWEEN THE GAYES AFTER $7.

' Sad: Zeola Gaye, pictured wh a gold disc om Marv beg posthumoly ducted to the R&B Hall of Fame, says she and her sister and their children have lived relative poverty havg been cut out of his legacy Pri: Zeola Gaye keeps pictur of her and her fay wh their brother Prence: Zeola and Marv on holiday wh his children Nona and Frankie Jamai Her elr sister Jeanne, a pastor, said the dispute would have sadned their brother.

MARV GAYE'S FAY FD AFTER $7.4M 'BLURRED L' PAYOUT

Together: Marv Gaye (send om right, at a get-together wh his siblgs and their fai On path to greatns: Marv Gaye the 1960s Legacy: Nona Gaye, Marv's dghter, wh her mother Jan, and her children 2004'I always tell the tth, jt like Marv always did, ' she said there has been no ntact sce she sent the last msage and she remas 'baffled' as to what her ex-sister--law meant by 'disturbg' add: 'I have tried for to be a fay numero tim.

She was diagnosed wh ncer before his ath and he said he felt would be worse for him if she died than the other way round Mourng: Albert Gaye at her son's funeral Hollywood. MARVIN GAYE'S COMPLICATED FAMILY TIES Marv Gaye was named after his father Marv, who wh his wife Alberta had three other children: Jeanne, Frankie and 's father also had a son om an affair 1970 lled Antwn Carey Gay, who liv Maryland. The other day I got a chance to terview wh a very special person: Mister Antwn Gay, the youngt brother of Grammy award-wng and exceptnal artist Marv Gaye!!

However, he was bullied om a young age due to homophobia, and bee his father was known to be a more: Marv Gaye's 10 greatt songs, rankedDue to this, and mours of the sger's own sexualy, Marv add the 'e' to his last name when he beme was born Marv Pentz Gay Jr on April 2, 1939, Washgton DC.

A MISTRY MOMENT WH: MISTER ANTWN GAY! PART ONE

Marv's parents were church mister Marv Gay Sr and domtic worker Alberta Gay (née Cooper) grew up a public hog project, the Fairfax Apartments, at 1617 1st Street SW the Southwt Wateront area, which was a vast slum at the more: Marv Gaye's isolated vols om 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' will give you tglMarv was the send olst of the uple's four children. He had two sisters, Jeanne and Zeola, and one brother, also had two half-brothers: Michael Cooper, his mother's son om a prev relatnship, and Antwn Carey Gay, who was the rult of one of his father's affairs. Among Marv Gaye's most famo hs clu 'I Heard It Through the Grapeve', 'Let's Get On', 'What's Gog On', 'Inner Cy Blu' and 'Mercy Mercy Me' several years away om the charts, he had a huge eback 1982 away om Motown wh the album Midnight Love, and s lead sgle 'Sexual Healg'.

Her ath om a bra tumor 1970 sent Gaye to a more: Tammi Terrell - The tragic life story of a Motown sger and how Marv Gaye never got over her athGaye also dated Dutch mol Eugenie Vis, and was volved wh Brish sociale Lady Edh Foxwell durg the early 1980s. Some say was due to a s-long perd of abe that he endured om his more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legendOn the night of April 1, 1984, Marv was shot twice.

He also had two half-brothers: Michael Cooper, his mother's son om a prev relatnship, and Antwn Carey Gay, born as a rult of his father's extramaral affairs. After Gaye's funeral, his body was cremated at Fort Lawn Memorial Park at the Hollywood Hills; his ash were later sttered to the Pacific Ocean.

MARV GAYE FACTS: MOTOWN SGER'S REER, WIFE, CHILDREN, PARENTS AND ATH EXPLAED

"Uned Stat Cens, 1940, " database wh imag, FaySearch (: 6 March 2020), Marv P Gay hoehold of Marv Gay, Tract 49, District of Columbia, Police Precct 2, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, Uned Stat; cg enumeratn district (ED) 1-49, sheet 16A, le 26, fay 225, Sixteenth Cens of the Uned Stat, 1940, NARA digal publitn T627.

"Oh, County Marriag, 1789-2016, " database wh imag, FaySearch (: 1 January 2021), Marv P Gaye and Anna Birdsong, 08 Jan 1962; cg Marriage, Lus, Oh, Uned Stat, Frankl County Genealogil & Historil Society, Columb; FHL microfilm. "California Divorce Inx, 1966-1984, " database, FaySearch (: 27 November 2014), Anna R Gordy and Marv P Gaye, Mar 1975; om "California Divorce Inx, 1966-1984, " database and imag, Anctry (: 2007); cg Los Angel, California, Health Statistics, California Department of Health Servic, Sacramento. "California Death Inx, 1940-1997, " database, FaySearch (: 26 November 2014), Marv Penz Gaye, 01 Apr 1984; Department of Public Health Servic, Sacramento.

FRANKIE GAYE - UPDATED JUL 2023

"Uned Stat, GenealogyBank Obuari, 1980-2014, " database wh imag, FaySearch (: accsed 11 Febary 2021), Marv Gaye, San Diego, California, Uned Stat, 02 Apr 1984; om "Recent Newspaper Obuari (1977 - Today), " database, (: 2014); cg, born-digal text. 1 Early Life2 Death3 Frankie Gaye – Net Worth 20234 Career5 Personal Life6 Body Measurements7 Frankie Gaye – Social MediaFrankie Gaye was a popular Amerin rerdg artist. Frankie Gaye is also famo as the celebry brother of Marv Gaye, who was also a rerdg LifeFrankie Gaye was born on November 15, 1941.

He has two elr siblgs Mable Jeanne and Marv Pentz, Jr., and one younger siblg the other hand, his father weled another child named Antwn Carey Gay 1970 through an extramaral affair whout his mother’s knowledge. The bullets his father fired h his brother the lungs, heart, diaphragm, stomach, liver, and left hearg the gunshots om the outsi, Gaye shed si and found his brother on his bedroom floor. At the time of Gaye’s mise, there were no active and popular social media platforms like Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Facebook, etc.

Fay, iends and fans of Marv Gaye me together Wednday to pay joyful hommage the late Motown legend and native Washgtonian on what would have been his 75th birthday.

LATE MOTOWN IN MARV GAYE REMEMBERED ON 75TH BIRTHDAY

Gaye was shot and killed by his father on the eve of his 45th birthday 1984, leavg behd a remarkable strg of hs -- led by "Let's Get It On, " "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" and "Sexual Healg" -- that rema pop, funk and soul classics. "When to DC, there's nothg bigger, nothg better than Marv Gaye, " proclaimed lol rad DJ Guy Lambert, emcee of a birthday soiree at Marv, a bar-rtrant honorg the nearly two years Gaye lived Belgium. Spotted the diverse 200-strong crowd were Gaye's youngt sister Zeola, who sang backg vols on his 1977 dance h "Got to Give Up, " and his longtime iend and mic arranger Gordon Banks, who on guar led a lively jam ssn on Marv's al stage.

FRANKIE GAYE

Performg as well were members of Gaye's very first bo, the Marque, a doo-wop quartet that me together 1959 the Washgton basement rerdg stud of pneerg rhythm and blu guarist Bo Diddley. Fame awaed the young Gaye at Motown, the Detro rerd label found by Berry Gordy that revolutnized pop mic the 1960s, crankg out hs the same productn-le manner that General Motors turned out rs. Wh his smooth vol style, Gaye was a perfect f duets alongsi Mary Wells, Kim Wton and Tammi Terrell, wh whom he rerd "A't No Mounta High Enough" and "A't Nothg Like the Real Thg.

In the 1970s, reflectg the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war, Gaye's mic took a sharp polil and social turn wh powerful chart-toppers like "What's Gog On" and "Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler).

IS DREW CAREY GAY? A LOOK TO HIS PAST RELATNSHIPS!

But his private life, Gaye suffered a tortured relatnship wh his father Marv Gay (the "e" was add by the son), a ge-church clergyman Washgton who had no qualms btally beatg his children. Wrtlg wh dgs, drk and prsn, and refg to pay US tax prott at the Vietnam war, Gaye found ner peace the early 1980s seasi Ostend, Belgium, where he posed "Sexual Healg, " his last big h. The mic fell silent on April 1, 1984 when, the midst of a fay altertn, Gaye was fatally shot twice Los Angel by his father, who ed a.

I'm payg the price now, " said the elr Gay at his trial, where he got a six-year spend sentence after pleadg no ntt to voluntary manslghter. Gay died 1998, aged 84, but not before fatherg, by another woman, the last of his five children, Antwn Carey Gay, who until a few years ago kept his kship wh his famo brother -- who he never met -- a secret.

ANTWN GAY, YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE LATE MICIAN MARV GAYE, POS FOR A PORTRA AT THE MARV BAR AND RTRANT APRIL 2, 2014 WASHGTON, DC DURG THE 7TH ANNUAL MARV GAYE DAY CELEBRATN TO HONOR THE 75 BIRTHDAY OF SGER AND SONG WRER

"The more spirual part of Marv is that which I've clung to the most, " Gay, 44, as tall and handsome as his lost siblg, told AFP as "Inner Cy Blu" wafted through the birthday fete. Elsewhere Washgton, next door to Gaye's old junr high school where he sang a glee club, a hip younger crowd marked Wednday's anniversary at a former Baptist church turned ntemporary art space lled Bld Who.

BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER SPOTLIGHTS MARV GAYE’S MIC, PLEX LIFE

He physilly walked the streets, " said anizer April Watts, who regularly sps Gaye nuggets alongsi morn R&B tun on her weekend rad show.

In ntrast, whout his mother’s knowledge, 1970, his father had an adultero relatnship and as a rult, produced a kid wh that woman named Antwn Carey Gay.

Rtricted edorial rights elsewhere, please ll lol GO WITH AFP STORY: ENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-GAYE by Robert MacPhersonDate created:02 April, 2014. Antwn Gay, younger brother of the late mician Marv Gaye, pos for a portra at the Marv Bar and Rtrant April 2, 2014 Washgton, DC durg the 7th annual Marv Gaye Day celebratn to honor the 75 birthday of sger and song wrer.

MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO AHEAD OF JUEENTH FTIVI

The play "My Brother Marv, " which opened Tuday at the Fisher Theater and ntu through Sunday, has exposed flt l wh the survivg fay of the late Motown sger Marv a storied reer and many hs at Motown -- Gaye rerd the label's most popular sgle, "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" -- the sger was ught a downward spiral of dg abe and emotnal turmoil the late 1970s.

"His younger sister, Zeola Gaye, 67, wrote a memoir that forms the basis of "My Brother, Marv, " which was scripted by Angela Barrow-Dunlap. Most recently he's been exchangg angry msag wh his nt Zeola via Twter over the Gaye and Jan had two children -- sger/actrs Nona, 38, and Frankie, 37. It was March 1973, when Gaye was rerdg "Let's Get It On, " that he met Janis 17-year-old moved wh him almost immediately, and was a mi-sndal wh Motown circl, bee Gaye was still married to Anna.

"There have been many books wrten about Marv Gaye sce his 1984 ath; Jan Gaye dismiss most of them, cludg Michael Eric Dyson's "Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov and Demons of Marv Gaye" (Basic Civas, $13. Many knew his younger brother Frankie, who died 2001, but there was an olr brother as well, Michael, and a younger brother, Antwn Carey Gay, who was his father's child wh another woman. "She plans to go buy a ticket and see "Motown: The Mil, " Berry Gordy's Broadway narrative about his life and the glory days of Motown, although she wish that Gaye's children were ved to and other Motown Bryan Terrell Clark plays Gaye, and his first scene the mil, he's playg the piano at a Christmas party, where Berry Gordy first laid ey on him.

76 FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE

"Dpe their differenc, she crav healg the Gaye msage for Zeola: "Open your arms to the children of your ad brother and show them your love.

In celebratn of the 50th anniversary of Marv Gaye’s fluential album “What’s Gog On, ” a street Detro has been named “Marv Gaye Drive. Outer Drive, Marv Gaye Drive marks the rner of the hoe where Gaye lived durg the nceptualizatn of his 1971 album “What’s Gog On.

“Marv Gaye left an lible mark on the world, and honorg his meangful work and his impact wh the newly mted Marv Gaye Drive ensur his legacy liv on an important way wh his ntued prence Detro, steps away om the home where he lived and nceptualized the ‘What’s Gog On’ album 50 years ago, ” Rob Terry, chairwoman and CEO of Motown Mm, said a statement. Marv Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown the 1960s, first as an -hoe ssn player and later as a solo artist wh a strg of succs, earng him the nicknam "Prce of Motown" and "Prce of Soul".