Legend, Kennedy Center program honor Marvin Gaye
(AP)AP - Grammy award-winning singer John Legend surprised a high school choir Tuesday at the Kennedy Center to help start a ... more
Songwriter Nick Ashford dies; had throat cancer
(AP)AP - Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful ... more Info for Marvin Gaye exhibit at Detroit museum (AP)
AP - If you go to the Marvin Gaye exhibit at Detroit's Motown Historical ... more
Marvin Gaye exhibit opens at Detroit Motown museum
(AP)AP - The Motown Historical Museum is celebrating the life and times, as well as the moves and grooves, of Marvin Gaye.... more
Marvin Gaye, Tupac inspire Maroon 5's latest album
(AP)AP - Two pictures were on the walls of the Switzerland studio where Maroon 5 recorded their latest album. One was of ... more more news
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range.. Gaye scored 41 Top 40 hit singles on Billboard's Pop Singles chart between 1963 and 2001, 60 Top 40 R&B singles chart hits from 1962 to 2001, 18 Top Ten pop singles on the pop chart, 38 Top 10 singles on the R&B chart, three number-one pop hits and thirteen number-one R&B hits and tied with Michael Jackson in total as well as the fourth biggest artist of all-time to spend the most weeks at the number-one spot on the R&B singles chart (52 weeks). In all, Gaye produced a total of 67 singles on the Billboard charts in total, spanning five decades, including five posthumous releases.. The year a remix of "Let's Get It On" was released to urban adult contemporary radio, "Let's Get It On" was certified gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000, making it the best-selling single on Motown in the United States. Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is the best-selling international Motown single, explained by a re-release in Europe following a Levi 501 Jeans commercial in 1986....
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