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Marvin Gaye was an American music artist and singer-songwriter who won acclaim for a series of recordings with Motown Records.Gaye's personal life, mainly documented in the biography, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, included his faith; child abuse by his father; personal relationships with his two wives, friends, and girlfriends; and bouts of depression and drug abuse.
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
"Sexual Healing" is a song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye from his seventeenth and final studio album, Midnight Love (1982). It was his first single since his exit from his long-term record label Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime (1981) album the previous year.
Marvin Gaye had a bitter relationship with his father, Marvin Gay Sr., since his childhood. Marvin Sr. was a Christian minister and strict disciplinarian who often physically punished his children. He was also a cross-dresser , a fact widely known in the family's Washington, D.C. , neighborhood which made the younger Marvin a target of bullying ...
The Sexual Healing Tour was the final concert tour of American singer Marvin Gaye, then promoting his hit album, Midnight Love and named after the album's Grammy-winning smash hit single, "Sexual Healing". The tour took place at multiple theaters, arenas, coliseums and clubs throughout the spring and summer of 1983, between April 18 and August ...
Things went from cute to caliente when Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko performed their Rumba to Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.” “It’s definitely a huge bonus that Gleb and I have such ...
The Motown icon died in 1984 after being shot by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., amid a domestic altercation. At the time, Marvin III was in his late teens, Nona was 9 and Frankie was around 8 ...
That conflict was examined by the author Michael Eric Dyson who commented that "Marvin Gaye struggled his entire career to reconcile sweet flesh and sustaining faith.The tension between sexuality and spirituality led him down troubled paths in his personal life and to artistic glory." Analysing '"Life Is for Learning", Dyson felt the artist was ...