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Contents:

• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW ANTWN GAY BROTHER OF MARV GAYE
• ENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-GAYE
• JEANNE GAY (SISTER OF MARV GAYE) PASS AFTER SHORT ILLNS – SHE WAS 87
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA SAID SHE MANAGED TO FIVE ALHOLIC FATHER FOR KILLG HER BROTHER
• A MISTRY MOMENT WH: MISTER ANTWN GAY! PART ONE
• DETROERS GATHER TO CELEBRATE STREET BEG RENAMED MARV GAYE DRIVE
• MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO AHEAD OF JUEENTH FTIVI
• MARV GAYE'S FAY FD AFTER $7.4M 'BLURRED L' PAYOUT
• ANTWN GAY
• MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO BY FAY MEMBERS, MOTOWN ALUMNI, DIGNARI
• MARV GAYE RECREATN CENTER OPENS WH FANFARE
• MARV GAYE
• OUR INTERVIEW WH MISTER ANTWN GAY: PART TWO
• MARV GAYE RECREATN CENTER OPENS WH FANFARE
• ANTWN COOK CALLS RICKEY SEY GAY
• TAG ARCHIV: ANTWN GAY

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW ANTWN GAY BROTHER OF MARV GAYE

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.

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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.

Jeanne Gay. *She had been ill the last several days, but unfortunately Jeanne Gay, 87, the elst sister of the legendary Marv Gaye, passed away Tuday morng (03/23/21) at 5:15am at St. Rose Domin Siena Hospal Henrson Nevada, acrdg to her now her now only survivg siblg, Zeola Gaye who remembers her big sis this way:.

Jeanne who cid not to add an “e” to our last name Gaye was so very funny..

JEANNE GAY (SISTER OF MARV GAYE) PASS AFTER SHORT ILLNS – SHE WAS 87

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Zeola Gaye and Jeanne Gay.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA SAID SHE MANAGED TO FIVE ALHOLIC FATHER FOR KILLG HER BROTHER

Jeanne Gay also served for several years as chairperson of the Marv P Gaye Jr Memorial Foundatn and was the admistrator of her brother, Marv Gaye’s Stud Hollywood California for several years. Marv Gaye's life was tragilly cut short after his own father shot him April 1984.

Marv Gaye was a Motown soul sger the 1960s and 1970s.

”Marv Gaye's sister Zeola Gaye viss FOX 29's "Good Day" to promote "My Brother Marv" | Source: Getty ImagSHE CARED FOR HER FATHERAlthough she exprsed regret over her dad killg Marv, the star's sister admted to beg one of the few fay members who red for her father when he need the time, Marv Sr. Marv Gaye performs live on stage at Jaap Enhal Amsterdam, Netherlands 1978 | Source: Getty ImagMARVIN GAYE'S CAREERThe R&B legend began his reer the late 1950s and spanned until his untimely ath 1984. He created art spe his troubled life, rerdg songs to su people's needs more than anythg Gaye performs on stage at the Holiday Star Theater Indiana | Source: Getty ImagREMEMBERING JEANNE GAYIn March 2021, Marv and Zeola's sister Jeanne passed away at 87 after a short illns.

A MISTRY MOMENT WH: MISTER ANTWN GAY! PART ONE

Zeola, the only survivg siblg of the Gaye fay, ma sure to remember her sister a sweet way, exprsg how much she would miss her. Antwn Gay, brother of legendary rerdg artist Marv Gaye! 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!!

Mister Antwn Gay: First that I am a Christian and that I love the Lord. Mister Gay: The challeng of workg the prison system is there are a lot of guys who are unbelievers. Mister Gay: Some of the biggt rewards is to be able to mister the Word first by my liftyle, by how I walk ont of them Christ.

Fifty years after his landmark "What's Gog On" album was released, legendary Motown soul sger Marv Gaye now has a street named after him than one hundred people stood the ra Saturday to watch as a portn of Outer Drive at Moni Street on the cy's northwt si was renamed Marv Gaye Drive. The tersectn is jt yards om the home where Gaye lived wh his first wife, Anna, for seven years and where the album art for "What's Gog On" was taken. "Here we are 50 years (after the album) and every word, every lyric and every msage is still relevant today, " said Miller London, a former Motown executive who was iends wh Gaye and remembers his stggle to get the prott album released.

DETROERS GATHER TO CELEBRATE STREET BEG RENAMED MARV GAYE DRIVE

"But the most important thg that we have to remember is that the legacy of Marv Gaye and this album, (is that ) meant so much to so many people. "Two of Gaye's relativ attend Saturday's renamg ceremony, Antwn Gay, Marv's youngt brother, and Dylan Holley, his grandson, along wh dozens of lol and state officials, cludg Detro Mayor Mike Duggan and U.

MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO AHEAD OF JUEENTH FTIVI

Antwn Gay said he was only 1 when "What's Gog On" was created but he remembers listeng to when he was 8. 20 "What's Gog On" Day earlier this year and special Marv Gaye-themed tours were held at the mm , a special one e walkg tour and exhib lled "What's Still Gog On" that leads om Woodward and Wt Grand Boulevard to the Motown Mm also is available.

It clus imag relevant to Gaye's album. "He shows you the thgs that are still stggl for and our muny, " said Rob Terry, CEO and chairwoman of the Motown lived wh Anna, Berry Gordy's sister, the light brown brick ranch at Outer Drive and Moni for roughly seven years, om the mid-1960s to the early 1970s when he reloted to Gordy bought the hoe origally the early 1960s and then gifted to Anna, said Pl Barker, director of velopment & muny activatn at the Motown shoot the album art for "What's Gog On, " Barker said Gaye and photographer Jim Henson spent three days lookg for the right place. They settled on shootg the album ver Gaye's backyard  the, Gaye had to fight to release "What's Gog On, " said London.

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

Motown executiv worried about Gaye, known for sgg love songs, releasg a prott album. He was a teen when "What's Gog On" was released and remembers gog by Gaye's home all the time on his way to high school. He said Gaye's album me out the aftermath of the Detro's rts 1967 and the Vietnam War.

"Every teenager this untry was thkg when we turned 18 we were gog to be drafted and Marv Gaye was speakg out agast , " said Duggan.

ANTWN GAY

"When I was listeng to Marv Gaye at 13, 14, I thought he wrote that for teenagers the cy of Detro.

MARV GAYE DRIVE UNVEILED DETRO BY FAY MEMBERS, MOTOWN ALUMNI, DIGNARI

"As a ver was pulled om the new street sign Saturday, fans — many wearg Marv Gaye shirts — cheered and clapped. 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. The celebratn was attend by Gaye’s brother, Antwn Gay, along wh other members of his fay.

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. The fay of Marv Gaye is bterly spl over his fancial and mil legacy spe the $7.

MARV GAYE RECREATN CENTER OPENS WH FANFARE

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. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Divid: Jan Gaye and Marv together. She and his sisters are now on eher si of a bter dispute Uned: Marv and Zeola Gaye on stage together.

4ln Blurred L lg Vditn: Speakg after the trial Nona Gaye ( left) and her mother Jan (right) spoke of how they believe the $7. 4 ln verdict reprented jtice Spl: Zeola Gaye (left) and Jeanne Gaye (right) are at odds wh Marv Gaye's wife and children. 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.

MARV GAYE

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. 'The sisters and Jan Gaye have been repeatedly at odds sce his ath but the settlement earlier this month opened up h wounds.

' 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. 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. 'I jt don't want to reply to anythg that has anythg to do wh Zeola Gaye. 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.

OUR INTERVIEW WH MISTER ANTWN GAY: PART TWO

The sger was 44 when he was shot ad by his father at the Gaye fay home Los Angel on April 1 1984.

MARV GAYE RECREATN CENTER OPENS WH FANFARE

'The fay dispute is a sad footnote to Gaye's life - but reflective of his own fay difficulti. Marv Gay Sr.

Jeanne Gaye. Zeola Gaye.

ANTWN COOK CALLS RICKEY SEY GAY

Frankie Gaye. Marv Gaye. GrandparentsGee Gay Mamie Gay Niece.

Nona Gaye. Marv Gaye III.

TAG ARCHIV: ANTWN GAY

On a gray and ray day that add a ftg, cematic touch to a celebratory ocsn, Marv Gaye got his own stretch of street Gaye Drive was unveiled Saturday at the rner of Outer Drive at Moni Street by a group of Detro and Michigan dignari, along wh members of the late Motown star’s fay. A uple of hundred onlookers gathered for the ditn at the rner, where Gaye’s oime home sat as a backdrop.

The backyard of the property, which had been given to Gaye and his wife, Anna Gordy, by Berry Gordy Jr., was the scene of the photo shoot 50 years ago that produced the inic portra for Gaye’s “What’s Gog On” album ceremonial namg was spearhead by Detro Cy Councilman Roy McAlister and approved earlier this year by the uncil. It’s the latt area road to get a mil signatn, followg street ditns for Aretha Frankl, Stevie Wonr, Glenn Frey, David Ruff and Gaye's 'What's Gog On' still relevant and revealg, 50 years onMore:As world marked Marv Gaye's 'What's Gog On, ' Detro celebrated album's birthplaceGaye’s groundbreakg “What’s Gog On” was the domant theme at the Jueenth event, which clud speech by McAlister, Mayor Mike Duggan, U. Brenda Lawrence, Motown Mm head Rob Terry and former Motown exec Miller ’s younger brother Antwn Gay — the origal fay surname — was grac and grateful as he addrsed the crowd.

“To be here on this day is jt a betiful thg, ” said Gay, who was jt a year old when “What’s Gog On” was released 1971.