Marvin Gaye

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       Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (Live, 1963) [HD video]


             Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike [Very Good(+) quality] (Live, 1964)

            Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range,  who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown"  and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye at number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time,  and ranked at number 18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time,  and he ranked number 20 on VH1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.  Gaye was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
             Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar


             Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
   

             Ain't No Mountain High Enough (extra HQ) - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell


            Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.1


            Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.2


             Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.  was born on April 2, 1939 at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.. His father, Marvin Gay, Sr., was a minister at the House of God (the House of God headquarters is located in Lexington, Kentucky), a Hebrew Pentecostal sect which advocated strict conduct and taught and believed in both the Old and New Testament. His mother, Alberta Gay (née Cooper), was a domestic and schoolteacher. As a child, Gaye was raised in the Benning Terrace projects in southeast D.C.

By the time his eldest son was four, Marvin Sr. was bringing Gaye with him to sing for church congregations. Gaye's early home life was marked by violence as his father would often strike him for any shortcoming. Gaye and his three siblings were bed-wetters as children. Gaye would describe living with his father "was like living with a king, a very peculiar, changeable, cruel and all-powerful king".  He further stated had it not been for his mother's love and encouragement in his own musical ambitions, he would've been "one of those child suicides you read about in the papers".

Marvin's sister Jeanne later stated that Marvin's life between the ages of 7 into his early teenage years consisted of "brutal whippings" by his father. By age fourteen, Gaye's parents moved to the Deanwood neighborhood of northeast D.C. The following year, Gaye's father quit the ministry after he was passed for promotion as the Chief Apostle (head overseer) of the House of God Inc.  Gaye's father never kept a job, only working for a cumulative total of three years.  Growing increasingly isolated from social life, Marvin's father withdrew at home and developed alcoholism, preferring vodka and cross-dressing, while also forcing his children to observe an extended Sabbath and would strike them for wrongfully answering Biblical passages he taught them.

Learning how to play piano, organ and drums at a young age, Marvin soon discovered R&B and a subgenre known as doo-wop. Entering Cardozo High School, he joined several groups in the D.C. area including the Dippers with his best friend, Johnny Stewart, brother of R&B singer Billy Stewart. He then joined the D.C. Tones, whose members included Reese Palmer, who was another close friend, and Sondra Lattisaw, mother of R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw.  Gaye's relationship with his father led him to run away from home and join the United States Air Force in the hope of becoming an aviator. However, discovering his growing hatred for authority, he began defying orders and skipped practices. Faking mental illness, he was discharged.  His sergeant stated that Gaye refused to follow orders.  Returning home, Gaye and Reese Palmer formed the doo-wop quintet, the Marquees.
            Marvin Gaye Playlist


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            Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Live in Montreux)


            Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It on


            Marvin Gaye - Come get to this

           
            Marvin Gaye After the dance


            Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man


            Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me / What´s Going On