The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legend - Smooth

Contents:

• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• MARV GAYE'S FATHER AND KILLER IS AD
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S CHILDREN: WHAT OUR FATHER WOULD SAY ABOUT LAWSU

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

Here, we break down Marv Gaye’s ath and why his father was never punished for the murr of his son.

Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. ” Throughout his childhood, Marv Gaye suffered abe at the hands of his father nearly every day. Alberta Gaye wh fay durg Funeral Service for Marv Gaye at Fort Lawn Mortuary Hollywood, California.

However, police officers quickly disputed the claims that Gaye was vlently beaten after they found no ditn of bis on his head or any physil ditn that he had been kicked or punched multiple tim.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

After reviewg the documents associated wh the murr, cludg the amount of dgs Gaye had his system, the judge pridg over the se agreed to grant Marv Gaye Sr.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTHE FATHER of Marv Gaye has died, 14 years after he shot ad the legendary soul star durg an argument. Marv Gay (as his name was spelled) died hospal last Sunday after velopg pnmonia at his retirement home Long Beach, snr, who was 84, shot ad his son at their Los Angel home April 1984, the day before Marv Gaye's 45th birthday.

MARV GAYE'S FATHER AND KILLER IS AD

Acrdg to Steve Turner, Gaye's bgrapher, the Motown star had a long- nng fd wh his father, a former Pentestal preacher, who opposed his tert mic. Gaye add the "e" to his surname after "Gay" prompted jib about his sexualy, a sensive subject given his father's proclivy for book tails the sger's birth Washgton and his pivotal role the Motown rerd label of the 1960s and 1970s. It also vers the bizarre sojourn Belgium the early 1980s when Gaye chose to lay his hat the port of Ostend, riddg himself of dgs and wrg the h "Sexual Healg" then returned to Los Angel, lapsg to the earlier habs which were to lead to his premature ath.

Mr Turner said Gaye helped make black mic polil and was one of the top five black performers of all time. Marv Gaye was one of the greatt soul sgers of all time, but his life and reer were cut tragilly short 1984, aged jt 44.

In what would have been his 83rd year, we take a look back at the great man, and exactly what happened wh Marv Gaye and his father. Marv Gaye was an Amerin sger, songwrer and was one of the ma sgers that created the Motown sound of the 1960s, first as an ssn performer and later as a solo artist. Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marv Gay Sr, on April 1, 1984, at their home the Wt Adams district of Los Angel, sger was shot twice, followg an argument wh his father after he tervened an altertn between his parents.

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

A Marv Gaye mil bpic wh the full backg of Motown is the worksMarv Gaye's isolated vols om 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' will give you tglHe was pronounced ad on arrival at the California Hospal Medil ath spired many mil tribut over the years. Alberta already had a son named Michael, but after sayg he uldn't raise another man's son, Gay sent Michael to live wh his had several children: dghter Jeanne, Marv Jr, son Frankie and dghter Zeola. Gay also fathered a son named Antwn Carey, wh another woman followg one of his extramaral Gaye facts: Motown sger's reer, wife, children, parents and ath explaedMarv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, rankedGay was scribed as a strict father to his four children.

In the days jt before his ath, Marv Gaye's parents had arguments over a misplaced surance policy day before his ath, arguments had spread to Gaye's bedroom. However, his father charged upstairs to the bedroom to shout at Alberta, g Gaye to jump out of his orrg him to leave did not work, Gaye is said to have shoved his father out of the room, and began to kick and punch him. 38 pistol his son had bought him, poted the gun at Gaye, and shot him directly the heart.

HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE

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. 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.

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. Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father.

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 . 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.

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

But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti. 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.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

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 . While unr his father’s roof, the young Gaye suffered vic abe om his father nearly every day. 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.

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

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

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.

MARV GAYE’S CHILDREN: WHAT OUR FATHER WOULD SAY ABOUT LAWSU

By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle.