Marvin Gay Sr. : The Murder of a Legend

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Marvin Gay Sr. despised his son from the moment he was born. Even after he grew up to be a successful singer, his hatred was overwhelming and drove him to murder.

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0:00.0	On April Fool's Day of 1984, news spread through the grapevine that music icon Marvin Gaye
0:07.6	was dead.
0:08.8	When people realized that his murder was no prank and that no amount of sexual healing
0:13.5	could bring him back, many were left wondering, what's going on?
0:18.3	This is Monsters.
0:30.0	Marvin Pence Gaye Jr. was born on April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C.
0:52.0	He was the second son of Marvin Sr. and Alberta Gaye who would go on to have two more daughters.
0:58.3	Marvin Jr. also had a half sibling from Alberta's previous relationship.
1:03.2	Despite living in the nation's capital with the White House just three miles away, the
1:08.0	apartment Marvin was raised in didn't have running water or electricity and their low
1:12.9	income and there was often not enough food to go around.
1:16.6	But let's not get this story twisted while we know that Marvin would go on to become
1:20.9	famous for his singing.
1:22.6	This is not a rags-to-riches story or the inspiring tale of a boy from the projects
1:27.7	who was raised in a loving home and who overcame his poor upbringing to make a better
1:32.0	life for himself.
1:33.9	This is the story of an abused child whose only means of escape was through music.
1:38.9	Alberta worked long hours as a housemate and Marvin Sr. worked as a church minister in
1:44.0	a strict branch of the Pentecostal church known as the House of God.
1:48.8	Pentecostalism focuses primarily on a direct relationship with God which can only come
1:54.2	from being baptized in the holy waters.
1:57.4	After being baptized, a person is considered to be the embodiment of the Holy Spirit and
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