In 2016, Jan Gaye was invited to dinner with bell hooks, the great humanist intellectual, and asked me along. Jan and I had recently collaborated on her autobiography, “After the Dance,” and hooks was ...

Additional accomplishments in 2025 included continued product innovation to meet the demand for premium windows and doors with the launch of the Marvin Vivid Collection, a boldly innovative line ...

'Let's Get It On' singer Marvin Gaye shared one son with his first wife, Anna Gordy, and two children with his second wife, Janis Gaye Gie Knaeps/Getty ; Ron Galella Collection via Getty It was so ...

When Marvin Gaye addressed pollution in his 1971 single "Mercy Mercy Me," he became one of the first R&B singers to ever address environmental issues in a song. The singer had made a name for himself ...

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On April 2, Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. is born to Alberta & Marvin Pentz Gay in Washington D.C. at Freedman's Hospital. Marvin grows up with his parents, older sister Jeanne, younger brother Frankie, and ...

Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On turns 40 on Saturday. Click the link above to hear Gaye biographer David Ritz evaluate the album and its legacy on Weekend Edition Saturday. Marvin Gaye's ...

For the last 40 years Marvin Gaye has enjoyed a level of enduring fame which he shares with only a handful of other artists - like Elvis, or the Beatles. They began their careers cutting records on ...

Marvin Sewell was born and raised in Chicago. He learned how to play the guitar by hanging out with many Chicago basement bands. At that time, Marvin was exposed to a variety of styles of music such ...