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

Contents:

• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• WHEN MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS FATHER
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

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

At the peak of his reer, Marv Gaye was the Prce of Motown—the soulful voice behd hs as wi-rangg as “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy).” Like his label-mate Stevie Wonr, Gaye both epomized and outgrew the crowd-pleasg sound that ma Motown famo. That life me to a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when Marv Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday.If the physil e of Marv Gaye’s ath was straightforward—”Gunshot wound to cht perforatg heart, lung and liver,” acrdg to the Los Angel County Coroner—the events that led to were much more tangled. Marv Gay, Sr., (the “e” was add by his son for his stage name) was a preacher the Hebrew Pentestal Church and a proponent of a strict moral he enforced btally wh his four children.

Clearly harbored unrolved feelgs toward his abive father.Those feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta.

MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

Only one year removed om his first Grammy w and om a triumphant return to the pop charts wh “Sexual Healg,” Marv Gaye was horrible physil, psychologil and fancial shape.After an argument between father and son lated to a physil fight on the morng of April 1, 1984, Alberta Gay was tryg to lm her son his bedroom when Marv Sr. Marv Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary sger durg his fal mut, later wrote his memoir that Marv Gaye’s fal, disturbg statement was, “I got what I wanted….I uldn’t do myself, so I ma him do .”Also on This Day History April | 1.

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 .

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

A vlent alholic, Gay took out his anger on his children — pecially Marv. 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.

Wikimedia Commons“He wanted everythg to be betiful, ” a iend once said of Gaye.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS 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.

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

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 performg ‘I Heard It Through The Grapeve’ 1980. While unr his father’s roof, the young Gaye suffered vic abe om his father nearly every day.

His sister Jeanne later relled that Gaye’s childhood “nsisted of a seri of btal whippgs.

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

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. The abe that ed the suicidal thoughts may have been partly fueled by Marv Gay Sr.

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.

WHEN MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS FATHER

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.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

But whatever s e, the abe didn’t stop Gaye om also velopg an extraordary talent for mic.

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 reportedly also changed his name orr to quell mors that he and his father were both homosexuals. 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.