Marv Gaye's Murr: How the Motown Legend Was Killed by His Father - A&E Te Crime

Contents:

• ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER
• MARV GAYE FALLY GETS A STAR
• ALBERTA GAY
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• THE MURR OF MARV GAYETHE MOTOWN SGER OF TIMELS HS ‘HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE’ & ‘SEXUAL HEALG’ WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER.JSIE LONDON·FOLLOW8 M READ·FEB 10, 2021--8SHAREMARV GAYE 1973 — WIKI COMMON SOURCEA HOEHOLD NAME TO MANY, MARV GAYE’S MIL TALENT BROUGHT HIM WORLD FAME AND EARNED HIM THE NICKNAME, ‘THE PRCE OF SOUL.’ MARV WAS A PNEER AND SHAPED THE MIL GENRE, PAVG THE WAY FOR GENERATNS OF ARTISTS TO E. MARV HAD A TOUGH CHILDHOOD AND STGGLED WH FAME, BUT HE LOVED HIS FAY ARLY AND PROVID FOR THEM GENEROLY. RETURNG OM TOUR TO RE FOR HIS SICK MOTHER, MARV AND HIS FATHER ARGUED NSTANTLY. FOLLOWG A VERBAL ATTACK ON HIS MOTHER ONE EVENG, MARV TERVENED PHYSILLY AND HIS FATHER SHOT HIM TWICE AT POT-BLANK RANGE.FOLLOWG MARV’S ATH, HIS SISTER TO WHOM HE WAS VERY CLOSE, EXPLAED THAT THE MURR WAS FAR MORE PLEX THAN SEEMED.MARV, SHE SAID, KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOG THAT NIGHT.A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD
• WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S NET WORTH AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH?
• PARTNERS OF ALBERTA GAY

ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER

The mother of sla soul sger Marv Gaye, who tried to stop the 1984 argument that led to her son’s ath and her hband’s arrt, died Friday of bone ncer at St.

Joseph Medil Center Burbank at age an argument at the fay home Alberta Gay’s hband, Marv Gay Sr., shot their son twice the cht. 29, 1990 For the Rerd Los Angel Tim Saturday September 29, 1990 Home Edn Metro Part B Page 3 Column 6 Metro Dk 1 ch; 24 words Type of Material: Correctn Marv Gaye--To clarify a reference Thursday’s edn of The Tim, the mother of Motown rerdg artist Marv Gaye, Alberta Gay, died of bone ncer on May 8, 1987.

MARV GAYE FALLY GETS A STAR

Grammy award-wng rerdg artist Marv Gaye, popular for his timate reflectns on the ways of love and spirual salvatn, received a posthumo star Thursday on Hollywood’s Walk of award me after two years of tensive mpaigng by fans across the untry and by lol rad statns wh predomantly Ain-Amerin dienc. Friends and fans gathered around Gaye’s star on Ve Street adjacent to the Motown Buildg, which ho the pany he rerd wh durg most of his reer, turng out early hs such as “Stubborn Kd of Fellow, ” “Pri and Joy” and “A’t No Mounta High Enough. ” His versn of “I Heard It Through the Grapeve” is nsired one of popular mic’s biggt crowd of more than 400 remisced about the soul sger who was shot to ath 1984 by his father, Marv Gay Sr., durg an argument their Crenshaw district home.

(Gaye add an “e” to his fay name when he began rerdg for Motown 1962) remembered Gaye’s smooth tenor, which has for two s ed tears to well up the ey of the happy, the hurtg, the trospective, and those wh even the fatt stirrgs of ’s children, Nona, Marv III and Frankie, accepted the award on behalf of their father. And Gaye’s mother, Alberta, did not ’s father, who ttified urt 1984 that he was beaten repeatedly by his son, plead guilty to a voluntary manslghter charge and was sentenced to a jail term that later was rced to five years’ probatn. The probatn perd end last of the Ain-Amerin fans at Thursday’s ceremony said the circumstanc of Gaye’s ath, his reported abe of dgs and his penchant for ntroversy may have ed an undue lay his receivg a star.

They also speculated that the Chamber of Commerce selectn mtee was unfortable wh Gaye’s outspoken--some said strint--manner. “At first we were told that Marv didn’t get a star bee he was not a good role mol, ” said Joyce Miller, 26, a South Los Angel special tn teacher who began lobbyg two years ago for regnn of Gaye on the walk.

ALBERTA GAY

Bt known as the mother of legendary R&B sger and songwrer Marv Gaye, she wnsed her famo son’s 1984 murr at the hands of his father (and her hband), Marv Gay, Sr. Rulg Pla: Alberta Gay had a lg pla of Saturn and has a lg pla of Saturn and by astrologil associatns Saturday is led by Saturn.

Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art. That pa largely centered on Gaye’s relatnship wh his father, Marv Gay Sr., an abive man who never wanted his son and ma no secret of . But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s.

But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti.

HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR

It was there, the fay’s Los Angel home, that the tensn between Gaye and his father reached s tragic climax when Marv Gay Sr.

But as the Prce Of Motown’s brother, Frankie, later said his memoir Marv Gaye: My Brother, Marv Gaye’s ath seemed wrten stone om the begng. Gaye scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg.

That kg, Marv Gay Sr., hailed om Jsame County, Kentucky, where he was born to an abive father of his own 1914. By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of .

MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER

And as Gaye himself later said, “By the time I was twelve, there wasn’t an ch on my body that hadn’t been bised and beaten by him. Whether or not that’s te, the source of the mors was largely that he cross-drsed, a behavr that was — often erroneoly — lked wh homosexualy, pecially s past.

THE MURR OF MARV GAYETHE MOTOWN SGER OF TIMELS HS ‘HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE’ & ‘SEXUAL HEALG’ WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER.JSIE LONDON·FOLLOW8 M READ·FEB 10, 2021--8SHAREMARV GAYE 1973 — WIKI COMMON SOURCEA HOEHOLD NAME TO MANY, MARV GAYE’S MIL TALENT BROUGHT HIM WORLD FAME AND EARNED HIM THE NICKNAME, ‘THE PRCE OF SOUL.’ MARV WAS A PNEER AND SHAPED THE MIL GENRE, PAVG THE WAY FOR GENERATNS OF ARTISTS TO E. MARV HAD A TOUGH CHILDHOOD AND STGGLED WH FAME, BUT HE LOVED HIS FAY ARLY AND PROVID FOR THEM GENEROLY. RETURNG OM TOUR TO RE FOR HIS SICK MOTHER, MARV AND HIS FATHER ARGUED NSTANTLY. FOLLOWG A VERBAL ATTACK ON HIS MOTHER ONE EVENG, MARV TERVENED PHYSILLY AND HIS FATHER SHOT HIM TWICE AT POT-BLANK RANGE.FOLLOWG MARV’S ATH, HIS SISTER TO WHOM HE WAS VERY CLOSE, EXPLAED THAT THE MURR WAS FAR MORE PLEX THAN SEEMED.MARV, SHE SAID, KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOG THAT NIGHT.A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD

Acrdg to Marv Gaye, his father often wore women’s cloth, and “there have been perds when [my father’s] hair was very long and curled unr, and when he seemed que adamant showg the world the girlish si of himself. As he started to make a name for himself profsnally, Gaye wanted to distance himself om his toxic relatnship wh his father so he changed his name om “Gay” to “Gaye.

Gaye eventually moved wh a mil lleague of his to Detro and was able to secure a performance for the biggt name on that cy’s mic scene, Motown Rerds founr Berry Gordy. Though Gaye soon beme the Prce of Motown and enjoyed monumental succs for the next 15 years, his relatnship wh his father never tly healed.

By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle. Furthermore, even as a grown man, Gaye harbored troubled emotns related to his father’s cross-drsg and mored homosexualy.

WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE

While Gaye was talkg wh his mother his bedroom and tryg to lm down, his father reached for a gift that his son had once given him: a. That one shot was enough to kill Gaye, but after he fell to the ground, his father approached him and shot him a send and third time at pot-blank range. Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn via Getty ImagSome 10, 000 mourners attend the funeral followg the ath of Marv Gaye.

Alberta fled horror and her younger son Frankie, who lived a gut hoe on the property wh his wife, was the first one to enter the scene jt after Marv Gaye’s ath.

Kypros/Getty ImagAfter the funeral, which clud a performance om Stevie Wonr, Marv Gaye was cremated and his ash were sttered near the Pacific Ocean. In a jail cell terview before his trial, Gay admted that “I pulled the trigger, ” but claimed that he thought the gun was load wh BB pellets. Furthermore, his fense, Gay claimed that his son had bee “somethg like a beastlike person” on e and that the sger beat him terribly before the shootg occurred.

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

As for the nature of the argument that preced Marv Gaye’s ath, distrght neighbors claimed at the time that the fight was over plans for the sger’s 45th birthday, which was the next day. Later reports claimed that the fight had broken out over an surance policy letter that Alberta had misplaced, drawg Gay’s wrath.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S NET WORTH AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH?

Whatever the e and whatever the tth of Gay’s BB claims, he add that he was remorseful and that he didn’t even know his son had died until a tective told him hours later.

PARTNERS OF ALBERTA GAY

On September 20, 1984, Gay was allowed to enter a plea barga of no ntt to one charge of voluntary manslghter.

After learng about how Marv Gaye died at the hands of his own father, Marv Gay Sr., read about the ath of Jimi Hendrix. From the time Marv Gaye was a young boy, before he beme one of Motown’s brightt stars and was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he repeatedly heard om his father: “You’ll never be anythg.

” “It created nflicts when Marv…started to earn more than his daddy, and everybody ran to Marv, ” the sger’s “Let’s Get It On” -wrer Ed Townsend Gaye told Gaye bgrapher Turner. On April 1, 1984, the day before Gaye’s 45th birthday, he tervened an argument between his parents at their shared Los Angel home, acrdg to Turner’s Trouble Man.