“My Brother, Marv,” a stage play based on the memoirs of his sister Zeola Gaye, stars Lynn Whfield
Contents:
- BEHD THE LEGEND OF MARV GAYE
- MARV GAY SR.
- MARV GAYE CROSS DRSG
- MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
- IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’
BEHD THE LEGEND OF MARV GAYE
Marv Pentz Gay Sr. was an Amerin Pentestal mister. He was the father of rerdg artists Marv Gaye and Frankie Gaye and gaed notoriety after shootg and killg his son Marv on April 1, 1984, followg an argument at their home. * marvin gaye sr cross dressing *
But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home. 13Marv Gaye was shot ad by his own father 1984Cred: Redferns. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday.
13Marv Gay Sr was arrted for the shootgCred: AP:Associated Prs. At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad.
As Gaye’s fame grew, so did his pennce on dgs and his creasgly erratic behavur.
MARV GAY SR.
Twenty-eight years ago this week, Marv Gay, Sr., received a six-year spend sentence and five years of probatn for the voluntary manslghter of his son, the R&B legend Marv Gaye. Gay pled guilty after shootg his namake ad the L.A. home given to him and his wife by Gaye,... * marvin gaye sr cross dressing *
Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. The moment Marv Gaye's dad is sentenced after shootg him ad.
TIL Marv Gaye’s real last name was “Gay”. It was bee of this, add wh mors of Marv's own homosexualy, that Marv add an "e" to his last name when he beme famo.
Marv Gaye's life end 20 years ago when his father shot him on April Fools' Day. But Gaye's mil legend has never stopped growg. And Tupac Shakur, go beyond the ual historil muckrakg to unrstand the faial factors that shaped Gaye's life.
MARV GAYE CROSS DRSG
He also explor Gaye's ongog impact on the Amerin mic Mercy, Mercy Me, Dyson exam Gaye's inic stat and why the man who asked What's Gog On remas as relevant now as he was when he was se Gaye as a highly nflicted artist whose searg sexualy was rooted his ep-seated spirualy.
MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
Gaye had a strg of broken relatnships, battled dg addictn and bristled unr rtrictns imposed by the Motown terviewed dozens of people associated wh Gaye and ftly weav a tale of the Trouble Man's tortured life. Along the way, there are revelatns that the teenaged Gaye was likely raped by an uncle, that his long-thought platonic relatnship wh sgg partner Tammi Terrell was an timate one, and that the son Gaye had wh his first wife, Anna Gordy, who was 17 years his senr, actually was one he fathered by her 15-year-old as revealg is the look to the sger's creative procs as he veloped his early R&B hs (A't That Peculiar, I Heard It Through the Grapeve), his classic duets wh Terrell and others (A't No Mounta High Enough and Your Prec Love) and his later erotic exploratns (I Want You and Sexual Healg), who had a jazz mician's knack for llaboratn and improvisatn, never bought to Motown's assembly-le methods. Gaye proved Gordy wrong.
IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’
It is now universally regard as one of the greatt albums ever nclus that Gaye ntu to fluence mic, and he draws parallels between the Motown star and his ntemporary unterpart, R. Kelly, another star whose art ris out of a fg of the sexual and the is hard to speculate what directn Gaye might have taken had he lived, but at the time he died, he was bieged by all manner of mons, cludg dgs and prsn.