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Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
Marvin Gaye, b. Washington, D.C., Apr. 2, 1939, d. Apr. 1,
1984, was one of MOTOWN's most successful recording artists
during the 1960s and early 1970s. Gaye's first solo album,
The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, was released in 1962, but
it was not until the single "Stubborn Kind of Fellow"
(1963) that he began topping the music charts. In 1967, Gaye
formed a stellar partnership with Motown vocalist Tammi Terrell.
The duo recorded such classics as "Ain't No Mountain
High Enough" while Gaye's solo "I Heard It through
the Grapevine" (1968) brought him his first international
success. Terrell's death in 1970 sent Gaye into seclusion.
He reemerged in 1971 with the landmark What's Going On, which
was followed by Let's Get It On (1973)--perhaps his most popular
album. Following a decline in popularity in the late 1970s,
Gaye moved to Belgium. There he recorded a "comeback"
album, Midnight Love (U.S. release, 1982), which yielded the
award-winning single "Sexual Healing"; in 1983,
Gaye made his first U.S. stage appearance in nine years.
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