Marv Gaye | Bgraphy, Songs, & Facts | Branni

Contents:

• THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE’S EX DETAILS SGER’S SEXUAL DEVIANCE, DGS NEW MEMOIR
• MARV GAYE - MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS ALBUM
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE

CelebryMarv Gaye had an credible but troublg life many areas, culmatg his tragic ath. Marv Gaye was a tan of Motown soul durg s heyday, a pop perfectnist wh a voice like velvet who gave a generatn of lovers a soundtrack to exprs their feelgs. Gaye’s journey wh his first wife, Anna Gordy, started sweetly enough but eventually beme poisono for both parti.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell (L) pose for a portra wh two men and Marv’s first wife Anna Gordy (C) 1968 | Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag. Their love story began 1959 when Gaye was a staff dmmer for the short-lived Motown precsor Anna Rerds. Gaye wrote several songs spired by their uplg, most notably “Pri and Joy, ” one of his first big hs.

Their relatnship is also notable for another reason: Gordy was 17 years olr than Gaye. Gaye and Gordy beme parents circumstanc that are more problematic now than they were at the time.

MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS

The story about Marv Gaye III’s parentage was rerd the book, Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marv Gaye by Steve Turner. Gaye was physilly and emotnally abed by his mister father, Marv Gay Sr., his entire childhood. Janis Hunter was a mother of two her early 20s when her longtime lover, father of her children and one of the world’s most lted-after soul sgers, Marv Gaye, suggted an amoro liaison wh another uple.

MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS

The next night, when the other uple returned for more, Gaye’s enthiasm had bee somethg else. She refed, the uple left and Gaye told her how he really felt about the fantasy that his proddg had ma real. “After the Dance, ” a memoir by Gaye’s mistrs-turned-wife Jan Gaye, wrten wh David Rz, rells a love affair propelled by jt the sorts of md gam.

MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

Marv Gaye’s immense, unniable talent for sgg and songwrg, and his equally impossible-to-dismiss sex appeal, were acpanied by creasgly heavy dg e — eebasg e eventually did him — and erratic moods, a nstant tug of war between thrills, love, lt and terror. Her mother, Barbara, was iends wh Ed Townsend, Gaye’s producer, and he brought her to the stud to watch Gaye rerd. At the time, Gaye was tranged om his wife, Anna Gordy, sister of Motown imprar Berry Gordy.

Motown was Gaye’s rerd label, and both Gordys had played an outsized role Gaye’s reer. Mutually enamored, Gaye brought Hunter to an Italian rtrant Hollywood, where he bribed the waer $20 to brg his unrage date aprit sours.

Soon after, they ma love for the first time Gaye’s sparse one-bedroom apartment, which had a “hio gold uch” where Gaye’s assistant, a junkie named Abe, had taken up rince. Soon, Hunter began to see how Gaye thrived on the emotnal turmoil of those around him and learned the pth of his jealoy and posssivens. Gordy and Hunter briefly met once, and Gordy told Gaye to never brg “” to her home Imag.

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“I jt want to see what someone like you looks like, ” Gordy told her, before turng to addrs Gaye. ” Anytime they discsed their child, Gaye referred to him as a boy, and exprsed a preference for such.

Hunter suffered a misrriage, and Gaye nsoled her by tellg her, “God giv and God tak away.

Gaye plimented Nona’s bety and pared to Hunter’s, but Hunter saw the disappotment his ey. But if Gaye grew quickly acceptg of his dghter, his attu toward Hunter — specifilly her new, jt-gave-birth body — changed.

MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS

Gaye got over his body hangups (for a while), and they settled to fay life, spendg their days high on ke and pot as Gaye wrote and produced new mic.

Gee Clton and Bernie Worrell would often drop by to shoot hoops and drop acid wh Gaye. She didn’t tell Gaye for fear of startg a fight, but time, she learned the effect may have been oppose. Gaye veloped a hab of steerg Hunter toward other men, whether out of some perverse masochism or genue light.

Notg a chemistry between Hunter and Maze sger Frankie Beverly, Gaye did everythg he uld to set up an illic liaison between the two.

MARV GAYE’S EX DETAILS SGER’S SEXUAL DEVIANCE, DGS NEW MEMOIR

When Beverly me for a vis, Gaye not only booked him a room at a lol motel but booked the adjog room for Hunter, sayg he need her out of the hoe so he uld foc on mic. Beverly crawled back to his room on his hands and kne, and Gaye found Hunter alone. After a long, ugly and expensive legal battle, Gaye was fally divorced om Anna Gordy, and married Hunter — now Jan Gaye — October 1977.

Gaye — now almost 40 — plaed to his 22-year-old wife about her saggg breasts and her stretch marks, explag, “There’s a big difference between pleasure and excement. They had vic fights, cludg one time when Gaye, behd the wheel wh both kids the r, began to swerve and threatened to “drive this thg off the road! Soon after, Gaye left Jan and the kids behd on a planned trip to Hawaii wh his fay, begng a pattern that would repeat over the years of Gaye leavg LA and his fay behd, only to implore them to jo him once at his statn.

In time, torn by Gaye’s cel treatment, Jan slept wh Beverly and also hooked up wh Teddy Penrgrass, Gaye’s ma mil rival. Gaye’s rage subsid before he uld do physil harm, but for Jan, this was the fal straw.

MARV GAYE - MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS ALBUM

Courty of Jan Gaye The next five years saw Gaye, Jan and their children embroiled nasty back-and-forth battl, cludg, after Jan brought the kids to see Gaye Hawaii, his refg to let Frankie leave, g Jan to not see her son for over a year. Gaye, out of his md on e, would tell Jan that the “end days” were approachg or acce her of sendg her father or gang members to try to kill him. “That I lost myself someone else — someone as remarkable as Marv Gaye — is no longer e for self-nmnatn.

Marv Gaye and His Girls is a 1969 pilatn album of duets rerd by Marv Gaye and var female sgers on the Tamla label. Among the ladi Gaye sung wh were Mary Wells (the hs “Once Upon a Time” and “What’s the Matter Wh You Baby”), Kim Wton (“What Good Am I Whout You? 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 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.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

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

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. 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]).