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• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: 5 MEMORABLE LIVE PERFORMANC
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE!
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A LEGEND, MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S FAY SAYS PHARRELL'S HAPPY IS ANOTHER PY
• MARV GAYE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARV GAYE: 5 MEMORABLE LIVE PERFORMANC

Today would have been masterful soul sger Marv Gaye’s 81st birthday had he not been tragilly shot and killed by his father one day shy of his 45th birthday April 1984. Gaye performed “The Star Spangled Banner” before the 1983 NBA All-Star Game at The Fom Los Angel. One of the most memorable rendns of the anthem, Gaye had the crowd swayg and clappg along by the end of song.

In 1980 Gaye appeared at the Montrx Jazz Ftival Swzerland. This cut of “What’s Gog On” was filmed durg Gaye’s 1976 European tour.

Gaye was a performer 1983 at the Grammy Awards show. This clip om Gaye’s standout ncert held on January 4, 1974 at the Oakland Colism California. Marv Gaye's fluence on mic is profound, which is why a mon argument agast the "Blurred L" verdict is that a majory of R&B songs created by artists are liable to be sued jt like Pharrell and Rob Thicke bee his sound is everywhere.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARV GAYE!

Gaye should be one of your first thoughts if you're talkg about the most fluential sger-songwrers of all time. He would've been 76 years old today (April 2) he beme the legend that he is, Gaye was known as one of Motown's (then known as Tamla) talented artists.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A LEGEND, MARV GAYE

The sger even felt that Tamla was unsympathetic to her passg and treated her as a Gaye emerged out of that darkns and chaos wh 1971's What's Gog On, one of the greatt, pathos-reachg achievements morn mic. At s re a cry for human empathy, the greatns of the What's Gog On album still ronat (and, some ways, hnts) bee of how s unrlyg turmoil and bluy look at urban y ("Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler)") are still relevant 's Gog On is Gaye's greatt work, but not his lone sential. Gaye's greatns is here to Marv Gaye Perform "What's Gog On" & "What's Happeng Brother"See 10 Mic Milton From Great Black Artists.

Marv Gaye was a staple of the Motown era and he ntu to be an in for the hs that he lent to popular culture. Although his life me to a vastatg end on April 1, 1984, today, April 2, is the day to celebrate his birthday and the joy that Gaye’s mic has brought to lns around the world. Gaye is nsistently regard as one of the greatt soul and R&B sgers of all time, and his seemgly endls list of inic songs are still spirg mic and young artists today.

MARV GAYE'S FAY SAYS PHARRELL'S HAPPY IS ANOTHER PY

In 1987, Gaye was posthumoly ducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwrers Hall Of Fame 2016. Here are some of Gaye’s biggt hs to get you through the day:. 4m the procs – the fay of Marv Gaye appear to have cid to take a look at the rt of Williams’s next song their sights is another huge global h, one that will likely have generated enormo amounts of revenue after more than 10m sal.

I do thk they sound alike, ” Gaye’s dghter Nona told CBS News of the siari between Williams’s worldwi smash Happy and Gaye’s 1966 song A’t That Peculiar. “I heard the mash-ups – but I didn’t really need to hear them, ” said Gaye’s ex-wife Janis. Marv Gaye, byname of Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., (born April 2, 1939, Washgton, D.

Gaye sang his father’s Evangelil church Washgton, D. When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony. After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds.

MARV GAYE

Gaye, who also played dms and piano, bucked the Motown system and s emphasis on teen hs. Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]).

Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy.

Gaye also displayed dazzlg virtuosy by overdubbg (buildg sound track by track onto a sgle tape) his own voice three or four tim to provi his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rt of his reer. ”Other major artists—most importantly Stevie Wonr—followed Gaye’s lead and acted as producer of their own efforts. In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film Trouble Man, wh lyrics that mirrored his own sense of secury.