Gaye

/ ɡeɪ /

noun

1. Marvin. 1939–84, US soul singer and songwriter; recordings include "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1969), What's Going On (1971), and "Sexual Healing" (1982): shot dead by his father

Example Sentences

They played at concerts with chart toppers like the Temptations, the Righteous Brothers, Marvin Gaye and the Rolling Stones.

From Los Angeles Times

By the time 44-year-old Marvin Gaye moved into the big, rambling house with his parents on South Gramercy Place, his cocaine habit was severe and his paranoia was deep.

From Los Angeles Times

“My daddy was a minister,” Gaye said, “and so when I began to sing it was for him.”

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In “Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye” by David Ritz, Gaye describes his father as “a very peculiar, changeable, cruel, and all-powerful king,” adding: “Even though winning his love was the ultimate goal of my childhood, I defied him. I hated his attitude. I thought I could win his love through singing, so I sang my heart out.”

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“I realized my voice was a gift of God and had to be used to praise Him,” Gaye said, but his father “hated it when my singing won more praise than his sermons.”

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