Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an inhouse session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including Aint That Peculiar, How Sweet It Is and I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles Prince of Motown and Prince of Soul.
Marvin Gaye was born as Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. on April 2, 1939, in Washington, D.C., to church minister Marvin Gay Sr., and domestic worker Alberta Gay . His first home was 1617 First Street SW, a few blocks from the Anacostia River. The First Street neighborhood was nicknamed Simple City, owing to its being halfcity, half country. When Gaye was in his teens, the family relocated first to Columbia Heights, where the family lived at 1417 Monroe Street NW, then to the Deanwood section of the city, where they settled at60th Street NE. Gaye was the second eldest of Gay Sr.s children and the third overall of six. He had two sisters Jeanne and Zeola, and three brothers Michael Cooper, Frankie Gaye, and Antwaun Gay. Michael Cooper was from his mothers previous relationship while Antwaun was born as a result of his fathers extramarital affairs.
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