Marv Gaye’s wife Janis Hunter Gaye di aged 66

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• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE DI AGED 66
• INSI MARV GAYE'S TOXIC MARRIAGE WH WIFE JANIS HUNTER
• MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• MARV GAYE: WIV, GIRLIEND AND CHILDREN
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66
• JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66

Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her fay said a statement. Jan Gaye, who sang backup on Marv Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give Up, ” died Saturday at home Rho Island.

“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement after notg how “eply sadned” she was by her mother’s passg. She also red about so many people the world, and I will do everythg I n to put to actn the thgs she wanted and help ntue the Gaye legacy. ”Jan Hunter was troduced to Marv Gaye 1973 Los Angel via a producer iend of her mother’s, when the sger was 34 and she was 17.

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

At the time, Gaye was still married to but tranged om first wife Anna Gordy, sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66

Anna Gordy and Gaye separated 1975 and divorced 1977.

Marv Gaye died at the age of 44 three years later after beg shot twice the cht by his father at the Crenshaw District home he shared wh his parents.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE DI AGED 66

Jan Gaye was misintified as “Janie Hunger” The Tim’ obuary of her ex-hband.

INSI MARV GAYE'S TOXIC MARRIAGE WH WIFE JANIS HUNTER

Marv Gaye wrote his 1974 h “Jan” for the woman who would bee his send wife, featurg the lyrics, “See, Janis is unique/ One of a kd/ Who says she lov me/ When she go to sleep, I kiss her face/ And thk I’m the luckit man/ And I’m her greatt fan/ There is no sweeter girl all the land (Land)/ Than my Jan (Jan), Janis (Janis), Jan (Jan), oh Jan (Janis)/ Jan (Jan). ”In 2015, wrg as Jan Gaye, she released the book “After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye. ”In the fay statement, Nona Gaye, who acted “Ali” and the “Matrix” seri, scribed her mother as an unfettable woman.

”In addn to her children and grandson, Jan Gaye is survived by her sister, Shawnn Monteiro, and brother, Mark Gaillard. Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and the spiratn for several of his songs, died Saturday of an undisclosed e at her home Rho Island, her fay announced.

MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY

Hunter Gaye was troduced to the sger by producer Ed Townsend durg a 1973 rerdg ssn at Hsville Wt Los Angel for his album Let’s Get It On, which was released that year. Gaye at the time was married to Anna Gordy, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy; Hunter Gaye was 17, he was 34. Gaye wrote the song “Jan” for his future wife and rerd for his 1974 album, Marv Gaye Live!, and his 1976 album, I Want You, has been scribed as “a romantic and erotic tribute” to her.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

Acrdg to her fay, Hunter Gaye put together the inic outf — red watch p, bead nim shirt and silver red-laced platform boots— that Gaye donned for his memorable 1974 ncert performance at the Oakland Colism.

Her memoir, After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye, was published 2015. Hunter Gaye was the dghter of sger-mician Slim Gaillard, known for hs cludg “Flat Foot Floogie (Wh a Floy Floy). ” She also managed the reer of her dghter, Nona Gaye, a sger and actrs wh creds cludg Ali, Crash and two Matrix films.

MARV GAYE: WIV, GIRLIEND AND CHILDREN

“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement.

Hunter Gaye spired several songs by the late Motown sger, cludg “I Want You, ” “Let’s Get On, ” and “After the Dance.

”Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife and ocsnal me of famed sger-songwrer Marv Gaye, has died at age 66.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

She died her Rho Island home of an undisclosed Gaye’s fay announced news of her ath, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter. Her dghter, sger and actrs Nona Gaye, ma a statement about her passg.

“From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said. ”R&B sger Marv Gaye pos for a portra at an event wh his wife Janis Gaye on Oct. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag)Hunter Gaye began her relatnship wh Marv Gaye after meetg him 1973.

JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

Townsend was llaboratg wh Gaye on the follow-up album to his 1971 classic, “What’s Gog On. Still married to his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, Marv began a romantic relatnship wh Hunter Gaye that produced two children, Nona and Frankie.

After his divorce om Gordy Gaye was falized 1977, Janis and Marv Gaye would spire her hband to rerd numero songs about her, cludg “Jan” for his 1974 “Marv Gaye Live!