Marv Gaye was a sger and songwrer, known for his proment role the Motown rerd pany. He grew up Washgton, D.C, and was raised by his father,
Contents:
- ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER
- WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
- MARV GAYE QUOT
- MARV GAYE’S DEATH
ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER
The mother of sla soul sger Marv Gaye, who tried to stop the 1984 argument that led to her son's ath and her hband's arrt, died Friday of bone ncer at St. * marvin gaye l *
The mother of sla soul sger Marv Gaye, who tried to stop the 1984 argument that led to her son’s ath and her hband’s arrt, died Friday of bone ncer at St. Joseph Medil Center Burbank at age an argument at the fay home Alberta Gay’s hband, Marv Gay Sr., shot their son twice the cht.
The senr Gay, a retired mister, was placed on probatn after pleadg guilty to voluntary manslghter. Gay later filed for divorce. Mart character as Marv Gaye.
Mart’s Marv Gaye film, I found a uple of recent ems that we missed.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
Disver Marv Gaye famo and rare quot. Share Marv Gaye quotatns about babi, realy and sufferg. "If you nnot fd peace wh yourself, you..." * marvin gaye l *
Gary Gray teased, while talkg to TMZ, that, while he’s not exactly lookg forward to makg another bpic (after this year’s Straight Outta Compton this year), one that would make him change his md is if he were asked to make a film on the life of Marv Gaye. “All the thgs he talked about his albums and what is gog on is relevant now, ” Gray said, llg Marv Gaye his favore artist.
Gary Gray had ma a al wh producer Suzanne Passe and Motown founr Berry Gordy to brg Gaye’s life to the big screen, addg that Gaye’s fay is volved as well. In addn, I also dug to the S&A archiv for any nnectn between Gray and Gaye the past, and found a 2009 post which was announced that F.
MARV GAYE QUOT
Gary Gray was attached to direct a Marv Gaye bpic, wh C. No stud was attached at the time, wh producers of the project shoppg to studs and fanciers a package that clud plete mic rights to Marv Gaye’s talog, wh plans to have the star of the film lip synch to Gaye’s rerdgs.
Gray, who had long wanted to tell Gaye’s story (and apparently still very much do), faced mic rights problems. It was also around this time that a rival Marv Gaye film tled Sexual Healg, that was to be produced by the late Jam Gandolfi, and was to star Jse L. That project, which was to foc on the sger’s clg years (unlike Gray’s, which would ver Gaye’s entire life), didn’t have rights to Gaye’s full mic library.
To start, Marv Gaye’s children, Nona Gaye, Frankie Gaye, and Marv Gaye III, all opposed the makg of this film. Berry Gordy and Janis Gaye, Marv’s ex-wife, also opposed . Epatha Merkerson (as Marv’s mother, Alberta Cooper Gay), and Dwight Henry (as Marv’s father, Marv Gay, Sr.
MARV GAYE’S DEATH
The film is set the early 1980s, and foc on the makg of the Midnight Love album, while Gaye was livg Belgium – a dg addict, nsired somethg of a has-been at the time. Mart would be playg Gaye, was met wh much excement, wh many appldg the news as perfect stg.