Marvin Gaye
American R&B and soul singer (1939-1984) · United States · Musicians · Died at 44
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Something wrong?The voice that pulled Motown into its full maturity - and then past it. Gaye turned the assembly-line hit factory into a vehicle for social conscience and erotic candor, and paid for both transformations in ways the music never quite prepared anyone for.
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Midnight LoveAlbum1978
Here, My DearAlbum1976
I Want YouAlbum1973
Diana & MarvinAlbum1971
What's Going OnAlbum1970
That's the Way Love IsAlbum1969EasyAlbum1967
UnitedAlbum1966Moods of Marvin GayeAlbum1965A Tribute to the Great Nat King ColeAlbum1964Hello BroadwayAlbum1939Born2 April 1939Also in Deutsch
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Gaye attended Cardozo High School in Columbia Heights, Washington D.C.
Gaye in 1966
Gaye with Gordon Banks, his guitarist and brother-in-law, during the Sexual Healing Tour in 1983.
Gaye lived in a rented apartment at the Albert-I Promenade in Ostend, Belgium, during his early 1980s exile.
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YMYou're the Man
VUVulnerable
RYRomantically Yours
DLDream of a Lifetime
ILIn Our Lifetime
TIThat's the Way Love Is
EAEasy
MGM.P.G.
IGIn the Groove
YNYou're All I Need
MGMoods of Marvin Gaye
HYHow Sweet It Is to Be Loved by YouAwards
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Born in Washington, D.C. on April 2, 1939, Marvin Gaye came up through Harvey Fuqua's Moonglows before signing to Motown's Tamla subsidiary at the start of the 1960s. He built stardom on a run of singles - "How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - and duets with Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell that included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". In 1971, What's Going On broke him free from Motown's production grip and opened the door to Let's Get It On, I Want You, and Here, My Dear. After years as a tax exile in Europe, he moved to Columbia in 1982 and returned with "Sexual Healing" and Midnight Love, his biggest commercial success, earning two Grammys and an American Music Award. On April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday, his father shot and killed him at the family house in Los Angeles; Marvin Gay Sr. pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and received a suspended sentence.
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