Janis Hunter Gaye Dead: Wife of Motown Legend Marv Gaye Was 66 – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• MARV GAYE
• THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• THE MYTHS OF MARV GAYE AND MOTOWN
• MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT
• THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE [MOTOWN 2001]
• MARV GAYE SAID THIS MOTOWN SGER HAD A VOICE STRONGER THAN HIS OWN
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66

MARV GAYE

Berry Gordy produc The Soulful Moods Of Marv Gaye, his but album; is not a mercial succs. Perhaps one of Motown’s most versatile performers, Marv Gaye joed Motown as a dmmer, after a stt wh Harvey and the Moonglows the 1950s.

THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER

Marv Gaye’s 1968 rerdg of “I Heard It Through The Grapeve” sold four ln pi and was the top-sellg Motown sgle at the time. In 1970, Marv Gaye briefly dreamed of leavg his sgg reer to bee a profsnal football player. The life and tragic ath of Marv Gaye, the son of a preacher who beme Motown's voice of polil change and died at the hands of his own father.

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

Durg his childhood, Gaye clashed wh his father, a preacher who reportedly had a strict style of parentg. Sger Marv Gaye performs on the NBC TV mic show 'Hullabaloo' Febary 1965 New York Cy, New York. Inially startg wh gospel mic his father's church, Gaye beme enthralled by the R&B and doo-wop tun popular the 1950s.

THE MYTHS OF MARV GAYE AND MOTOWN

Gaye had fallen to a ep prsn surroundg the ath of long-time llaborator Tammi Terrell, the failure of his first marriage, and troubl wh addictn. Rpondg to the protts and police btaly of Bloody Thursday Berkeley 1969, Gaye put out the now-famo "What's Gog On. " The choice to tegrate polics to Motown not only troduced Gaye to a larger dience, but paved the way for a new kd of prott mic rhythm and blu.

"In the early 1980s, Gaye briefly moved to Ostend, Belgium to ntrol his issu wh substance abe, addrs his fancial troubl wh the IRS, and rebuild his WBUR.

Gaye left Motown Rerds and signed wh Columbia 1982 — this partnership yield his last album Midnight Love and s lead sgle "Sexual Healg. " This smash h earned Gaye his first two Grammy Awards, Bt Male R&B Vol Performance and Bt R&B Instmental Performance 1983. There are relatively few rerdg artists wh a legacy as powerful and fluential as Marv Gaye.

MARV GAYE – 10 OF THE BT

Listen to a timels Marv Gaye playlist, watch Berry Gordy and Mary Wilson praise his talents, and read more this extensive feature about his ntug fluence.

THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE [MOTOWN 2001]

Marv Gaye Volume Three: 1971-1981 ntas the superstar’s last seven Motown stud albums, cludg What’s Gog On, Trouble Man, Let’s Get It On, I Want You and Here, My Dear. After The Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye is the recently published memoir of the sger’s send wife, Jan, whom he met while workg on 1973’s Let’s Get It On Los Angel.

Published last year, the book was wrten wh David Rz, thor of the earlier Gaye bgraphy, Divid Soul. ” Two other members of Marv’s fay have wrten books: Frankie Gaye’s Marv Gaye, My Brother 2003 and Zeola Gaye’s My Brother, Marv 2011. Sifiso Mazibo, as Marv Gaye, sh a portrayal of a plited man who was Motown founr Berry Gordy’s creative “prce” and brother--law.

MARV GAYE SAID THIS MOTOWN SGER HAD A VOICE STRONGER THAN HIS OWN

Marv Gaye was the one who always wanted to prove he uld do thgs his way” – as quoted his tobgraphy, To Be Loved.

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.

The olr Marv hated his son for beg so attractive to women, acrdg to Gaye’s ex-wife Janis Gaye. ” “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.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66

) After Gaye walked away, returng to his bedroom, his father soon appeared the doorway wh a. Bee Gaye was seated, the first bullet was fatal, piercg his heart, lung, liver, stomach and left kidney. Gaye’s murr bears some other hallmarks of tradnal paternal filici: a father wh troubled fanc, a history of domtic abe and a belief that what he did was the right thg to do.

Gaye’s mother Alberta Gay told his “Sexual Healg” -wrer and bgrapher David Rz Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye that the first time she spoke to her hband after postg his $30, 000 bail, “He started speakg to me, but said nothg about Marv. Turner says Gaye’s bodyguard Andrew Whe played a rerdg for him which Gaye said his father had threatened his life before. “‘I brought you to the world, and if you cross me, I n take you out, '” Turner rells Gaye sayg.

In his memoir, Marv Gaye, My Brother, Frankie Gaye said his brother’s last words were: “I got what I wanted… I uldn’t do myself, so I ma him do . At age 70, Gay was sentenced to a six-year spend sentence and jt five years probatn bee of his failg health and Gaye’s attack on him. MicFrom the lore of the label's h-makg formula to the famo tal of personal squabbl and ep betrayals, Marv Gaye and Motown have more than a few skeletons their closets.