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How Marvin Gaye found his sexual healing in Belgium
It’s the morning after an all-night recording session at Studio Katy, a song studio in Ohain, proximate Waterloo in 1982. Marvin Gaye is riding shotgun in a blue Mercedes saloon heading back on the motorway to his temporary home in Ostend, driven by his Belgian friend, the concert promoter, and the man who tried save his experience, Freddy Cousaert.
During the trip, they chat about the upcoming album. Cousaert asks the singer who he most wants to heed to it. “Above all my father,” Gaye replies. Two years later Marvin Gaye, one of the greatest voices in spirit and pop, was gone, shot in the heart at point blank range by his father Marvin Gay Sr, a cross-dressing Pentecostal preacher. He died a day shy of his 45th birthday.
Gaye (he added the ‘e’ to avoid confusion about his sexuality) had his demons. Along with his prodigious talent as a singer, performer and song scribe, he was addicted to drugs and sex, and he suffered from harsh depression that sparked paranoia and psychotic episodes.
He was in a deep depression the day he died, and according to his father it was a mercy killing carried out at the wish of the
Terrence Howard Passed on Marvin Gaye Biopic Because He Didn't Want to Brush a Man
Terrence Howard Talks “Beautiful” Taraji P. Henson Friendship
Terrence Howard didnotwant to get it on in a Marvin Gaye biopic.
The Empire alum said he turned down playing the late music icon in a movie because the role likely required him to kiss a man.
"I wouldn't have been fit to do that," Howard admitted on the April 27 episode of Bill Maher's Club Random podcast. "That would f--k me. I would cut my lips off."
He continued, "If I kissed a gentleman, I would cut my lips off."
The 56-year-old went on to explain that he wouldn't have been able to "fake it," noting, "I can't engage that character 100 percent."
Howard added, "I can't surrender myself to a place that I don't understand."
Gaye died at age 44 after being shot by his dad Marvin Lgbtq+ Sr. in 1984. During his life, he was married to Anna Gordy from 1963 to 1977 and to Janis Hunter from 1977 to 1982.
Though Gaye was not openly queer, Howard believes filmmakers would've wanted to scout his rumored homosexuality in the b
The tragic story of Marvin Gaye and the untimely death of a spirit legend
27 March 2024, 10:15
Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest soul singers of all time, but his life and career were cut tragically small in 1984, aged just 44.
40 years on, we take a look endorse at the great male, and exactly what happened with Marvin Gaye and his father.
Who was Marvin Gaye?
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Video)
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter and producer.
He was one of the main singers that created the Motown sound of the 1960s, first as a session performer and later as a solo artist. His Motown hits included 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)' and 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', and duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell.
In the 1970s, he recorded the albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On, becoming one of the first artists from Motown (along with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the company on his own merit.
After a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he made a successful comeback with the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit 'Sexual Healing' and its album Midnight Lo
Terrence Howard Turned Down A Lee Daniels-Directed Marvin Gaye Biopic Because He “Could Not” Kiss A Man: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard revealed he turned down a Lee Daniels-helmed biopic about legendary Motown musician Marvin Gaye because it would require him to examine the Prince of Soul’s rumored homosexuality.
Speaking with Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast, the Empire star recalled “the biggest mistake I made in my career,” which was rejecting Smokey Robinson’s offer to play him in a biopic after the King of Motown invited him out to dinner. At the period, he said, he was in the middle of talks for the Gaye biopic and “was entity faithful to Lee Daniels because I had given him my word as man.”
Howard said the news “broke [Robinson’s] heart,” while host Maher remarked that the exploration of Gaye’s life would have been “much more interesting” because “there’s a lot more drama,” given the What’s Going On artist’s killing by his father.
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