Is marvin gaye father still alive

R&B legend Marvin Gaye came to an untimely end after his dad fatally shot him. He had people testing his food and water, and bodyguards with sub-machine guns in adjacent hotel rooms," Mr Turner said. Inside the Motown singer-songwriters' tragic story.

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. It also covers the bizarre sojourn in Belgium in the early s when Gaye chose to lay his hat in the port of Ostend, ridding himself of drugs and writing the hit "Sexual Healing".

What happened? Thank you for registering Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged in. His need to be successful, find love and then take drugs were all down to it.

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The father of the singer Marvin Gaye dies in a Californian retirement home, some 14 years after he shot and killed his son during a family row. Mr Turner said Gaye helped make black music political and was one of the top five black performers of all time.

The book details the singer's birth in Washington and his pivotal role in the Motown record label of the s and s. He then returned to Los Angeles, lapsing into the earlier habits which were to lead to his premature death. He was the father of recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye and gained notoriety after shooting and killing his son Marvin on April 1,following an argument at their home.

Gaye added the "e" to his surname after "Gay" prompted jibes about his sexuality, a sensitive subject given his father's proclivity for cross-dressing. All the evidence I've found is that Marvin provoked the incident because he knew what the result would be.

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Marvin Gaye 39 s : C

According to Steve Turner, Gaye's biographer, the Motown star had a long- running feud with his father, a former Pentecostal preacher, who opposed his interest in music. Marvin snr, who was 84, shot dead his son at their Los Angeles home in Aprilthe day before Marvin Gaye's 45th birthday.

Marvin Pentz Gay Sr. (October 1, – October 10, ) was an American Pentecostal minister. No matter what he achieved with his songs, all he got was resentment and criticism," Mr Turner said. Marvin Gay as his name was spelled died in hospital last Sunday after developing pneumonia at his retirement home in Long Beach, California.