32 YEARS AGO TODAY (16/08/1984) MARVIN GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER!

(MARVIN WITH HIS PARENTS)

Marvin Gaye was shot by his own father today 32 years ago over an argument. Below is a detailed brief of the life and times of the highly creative music maestro culled from Wikipedia.com

Marvin Gaye, born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. on 2 April 1939, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)' and 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles 'Prince of Motown' and 'Prince of Soul'.
During the 1970s, he recorded the concept albums What’s Going On and Let’s Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of their production company.
Gaye’s later recordings influenced several contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo-soul. Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye released the 1982 GrammyAward-winning hit 'Sexual Healing' and its parentalbum Midnight Love.
On April 1, 1984 Gaye’s father, Marvin Gay Sr., fatally shot him at their house in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. Since his death, many institutions have posthumously bestowed Gaye with awards and other honors including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.