Marvin Gaye # 1601

Caption from poster__     Marvin Gaye  “Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins,one must assuredly limit one's fear,thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.”     (born April 2, 1939, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 1, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif.) American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye's father was a storefront preacher; his mother was a domestic worker. Gaye sang in his father's Evangelical church in Washington, D.C., and became a member of a nationally known doo-wop group, the Moonglows, under the direction of Harvey Fuqua, one of the genre's foremost maestros, who relocated the group to Chicago. When doo-wop dissipated in the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua's lessons in close harmony. After disbanding the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detroit, Michigan, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was forming Motown Records. Gaye, who also played drums and piano,