Anna Gordy Gaye, Motown Songwrer and Ex-Wife of Marv Gaye, Dead at 92 – Billboard

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• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92
• ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD -- MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD AT 92: MARV GAYE’S WIFE CSE OF DEATH REVEALED
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, FORMER WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE DI AT 92; MOTOWN RERDS FIGURE
• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY GAYE: WHAT REALLY TOOK PLACE AT HSVILLE U.S.A.
• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66

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

Anna Gordy Gaye, olr sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and ex-wife of Marv Gaye, died today at age 92, a Motown reprentative nfirmed.

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

Gordy Gaye played a key role Marv Gaye’s life, both personally and profsnally. Early his reer, Gaye worked as a dmmer for Anna Rerds, a rerd label found by Anna and her sister Gwen wh songwrer Roquel “Billy” Davis.

The Spir, the Flh and Marv Gaye. 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. Gordy Gaye’s marriage to Marv was one of the most turbulent mic, marked by equent fightg and fily.

(Gaye fell love wh 17-year-old Janis Hunter durg the rerdg of 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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92

Here, My Dear told specific stori about the duo’s past, g Anna to nsir a $5 ln vasn-of-privacy su agast Gaye. 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. Gordy Gaye and Gaye renciled the early 1980s, wh Anna by Marv’s si at the 1983 Grammy Awards.

Anna Gordy Gaye is survived by her brothers, Berry and Robert, her son, Marv Gaye III, and two grandsons, Marv IV and Dillon. Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and former wife of the late Marv Gaye, wh whom she -wrote songs for his "What's Gog On" album, died at her home Los Angel early…. Anna Gordy Gaye.

ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI

Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and former wife of the late Marv Gaye, wh whom she -wrote songs for his “What’s Gog On” album, died at her home Los Angel early Friday morng. An official fay statement said Gordy Gaye was surround by her son Marv Gaye III and other loved on.

Earlier, a fay publicist said Gaye passed away om natural . She married Motown artist Marv Gaye 1963 and worked as a songwrer for the Detro-based R&B/Soul label.

The hband-wife team penned several hs, cludg “Baby, I’m For Real” and “The Bells” for The Origals, and later “Fly’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” and “God Is Love” off Gaye’s landmark “What’s Gog On” album, released 1971. Their 1977 divorce was unique that a settlement was worked out givg Gordy Gaye the royalti of Gaye’s next album, which he filled wh personal songs about the failed relatnship. The pair later renciled and remaed iends until Gaye’s ath 1984.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 92

Gordy Gaye is survived by son Marv Gaye III. Motown founr Berry Gordy and his sister Anna Gordy Gaye arrive at the Cedars-Sai Medil Center Heart Foundatn for a tribute honorg the Motown founr Beverly Hills June 7, 2008.

REUTERS/G Ruelas/FilLOS ANGELES (Rters) - Anna Gordy Gaye, the ex-wife of late soul legend Marv Gaye and the olr sister of Motown rerd label founr Berry Gordy Jr., died Los Angel on Friday at the age of 92, the fay publicist said.

M., ” said Mreen O’Connor, executive vice print of publicists Rogers & songwrer and bswoman was married to Gaye om 1964 to 1977 and helped pose two songs, “Flyg High (In the Friendly Sky)” and “God is Love, ” on Gaye’s classic album “What’s Gog On. ”When Marv Gaye was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987, she attend the ceremony. The sger died 1984 at the age of 44 after he was shot by his uple had one son, Marv Gaye last public appearance was wh Berry Gordy 2008.

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

Her 14-year marriage to Marv Gaye end divorce. Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown’s founr and ex-wife of late legendary sger Marv Gaye, has died. Her 14-year marriage to Gaye end divorce, but not before she spired some of his songs, cludg “Pri and Joy” and “You’re a Wonrful One.

She is survived by a son, Marv Gaye III, and two brothers, cludg Berry Gordy, who found the Motown rerd label. Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and former wife of the late Marv Gaye, wh whom she -wrote songs for his What’s Gog On album, died at her home Los Angel early Friday morng. An official fay statement said Gordy Gaye was surround by loved on cludg her son Marv Gaye III.

She married Motown artist Marv Gaye 1963 and worked as a songwrer for the Detro-based R&B/soul label. The hband-wife team penned several hs, cludg “Baby, I’m for Real” and “The Bells” for The Origals, and later “Fly’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” and “God Is Love” off Gaye’s landmark What’s Gog On album, released 1971. Their 1977 divorce was unique that a settlement was worked out givg Gordy Gaye the royalti for Gaye’s next album, which he filled wh personal songs about the failed relatnship.

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

Gordy Gaye is survived by her son, Marv Gaye III. Marv Gaye's Ex-Wife. Anna Gordy Gaye -- Marv Gaye's ex-wife and olr sister to Motown founr Berry Gordy -- died early this morng Los Angel...

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92

They had one child together -- Marv Gaye III -- and eventually divorced 1977. When Anna Gordy divorced Marv Gaye 1975, the settlement was unual: she would receive the proceeds om his next album – $305, 000 om the advance and $295, 000 future royalti – li of matenance and child support. Gaye claimed to be broke, but sce he was enjoyg a perd of succs wh such hs as What's Gog On and Let's Get It On, Gordy, who has died aged 92, uld have looked forward to substantial pensatn for the end of their turbulent 12-year marriage.

She would have been equally unhappy about s relative mercial failure, but time has shown to be the last of Gaye's masterpiec for Motown, the pany found by Anna's younger brother was not the only imprt she left on the soul mic of the 1960s and 70s. The words of some of Gaye's early hs, notably Pri and Joy, were spired by the betiful and sophistited woman he had met when he was still a ssn dmmer. She beme his ocsnal songwrg partner, llaboratg on two songs – Fly' High and God is Love – for the classic album What's Gog On, and on The Bells and Baby I'm For Real, two of the ft soul ballads of the early 1970s, both rerd by the Origals, a Motown vol group, unr Gaye's third of the eight children born to Berry "Pops" Gordy II and his wife Bertha, Anna was not a year old when the fay moved om Onee, Geia, her birthplace, to Detro, a cy on whose worldwi reputatn the amb and entreprenrial fay would have much fluence.

ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD AT 92: MARV GAYE’S WIFE CSE OF DEATH REVEALED

At 18, after graduatg om high school, she moved to California, soon joed by Berry Jr, one of her younger brothers, who was then pursug a reer as a eventually returned to Detro, where Berry Jr would found the Motown group of labels, wh Gaye among s first artists. In 1973 Marv left Anna for the 16-year-old Janis Hunter, who beme his send wife and the mother of two more were amibly renciled the years immediately before Gaye was shot ad by his father 1984. Here, My Dear, wh s mixture of remembered joy and prent anguish, will rema as an extraordary is survived by Marv III and two grandsons, Marv IV and Dylan Gaye.

LOS ANGELES (Rters) - Anna Gordy Gaye, the ex-wife of late soul legend Marv Gaye and the olr sister of Motown rerd label founr Berry Gordy Jr., died Los Angel on Friday at the age of 92, the fay publicist said. M., " said Mreen O'Connor, executive vice print of publicists Rogers & songwrer and bswoman was married to Gaye om 1964 to 1977 and helped pose two songs, "Flyg High (In the Friendly Sky)" and "God is Love, " on Gaye's classic album "What's Gog On.

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

"When Marv Gaye was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987, she attend the ceremony. Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy who also was married to the legendary sger Marv Gaye, died at her Los Angl home today at the age of 92. Our ept ndolenc go out to the Gaye fay their time of grief….

ANNA GORDY GAYE, FORMER WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 92

Hunter Gaye spired several songs by the late Motown sger, cludg “I Want You, ” “Let’s Get On, ” and “After the Dance. ”Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife and ocsnal me of famed sger-songwrer Marv Gaye, has died at age 66.

She died her Rho Island home of an undisclosed Gaye’s fay announced news of her ath, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter.

ANNA GORDY GAYE DI AT 92; MOTOWN RERDS FIGURE

Her dghter, sger and actrs Nona Gaye, ma a statement about her passg.

“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.

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

”R&B sger Marv Gaye pos for a portra at an event wh his wife Janis Gaye on Oct. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag)Hunter Gaye began her relatnship wh Marv Gaye after meetg him 1973. Townsend was llaboratg wh Gaye on the follow-up album to his 1971 classic, “What’s Gog On.

Still married to his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, Marv began a romantic relatnship wh Hunter Gaye that produced two children, Nona and Frankie. 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! ” Marv even namedropped Hunter Gaye the album’s songs, cludg “I Want to Be Where You Are, ” and “Soon I’ll Be Lovg You Aga.

”In late 1978, Gaye released the album, “Here, My Dear, ” wrten about the dissolutn of his marriage to Gordy Gaye. The album’s penultimate track, “Fallg Love Aga, ” was dited to Hunter Gaye, as stated Gaye’s bgraphy, “Divid Soul. ”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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE: WHAT REALLY TOOK PLACE AT HSVILLE U.S.A.

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. ”Along wh Hunter Gaye’s two children, she is survived by sister Shawnn, brother Mark and grandson Nolan.

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

A public memorial honorg Hunter Gaye’s life will be announced at a later date. The post Janis Hunter Gaye, send wife of Marv Gaye, ad at 66 appeared first on TheGr. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anna Gordy Gaye, former wife of the late Marv Gaye and sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy, Jr, has died at her Los Angel home.