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Marvin Gaye was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, born on the 2nd of April 1939 in Washington, D.C. Commonly called the Prince of Motown and the Prince of Soul, he helped shape the sound of Motown and soul music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., on the 1st of April 1984 at his parents' house in Western Heights, Los Angeles. He was shot twice, once in the chest piercing his heart, and was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m., one day before his 45th birthday.
What's Going On, released in 1971, is Marvin Gaye's most celebrated album. It was his first million-selling album and was ranked the greatest album of all time on Rolling Stone's revised 2020 list, after being chosen for the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2003.
Sexual Healing, released in November 1982, was the biggest-selling single of Marvin Gaye's career. It spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Black Singles chart and won him his first two Grammy Awards in February 1983.
Marvin Gaye relocated to Ostend, Belgium, on the 14th of February 1981 on the advice of music promoter Freddy Cousaert, after fleeing the United States over back taxes that had reached upward of 4.5 million dollars. In Ostend he reduced his drug use, began exercising, and wrote Sexual Healing.
Marvin Gaye recorded with several female artists, most notably Tammi Terrell, with whom he made Ain't No Mountain High Enough and You're All I Need to Get By. He also recorded with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Diana Ross.
Marvin Gaye won two Grammy Awards, an American Music Award, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the NAACP Hall of Fame, the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1990.