Is marvin gaye gay

Marvin Gaye was an American music artist and singer-songwriter who won acclaim for a series of recordings with Motown Records. But by the time his ferry docked in Ostend on a cold day in Februaryhe was burned out. Cousaert asks the singer who he most wants to listen to it.

Gay was initially charged with first-degree murder, but the charge was later reduced to voluntary manslaughter. How Marvin Gaye ended up in the Belgian coastal city of Ostend is one of the most unlikely episodes in popular music history. 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 singer.

Along with his prodigious talent as a singer, performer and song writer, he was addicted to drugs and sex, and he suffered from severe depression that sparked paranoia and psychotic episodes. When Marvin Gaye was still alive, there were rumors and guesses about who he had feelings for in a romantic way.

He wanted to help Gaye get over his addictions, and to kick-start his faltering musical career. He knew that Ostend was good for him, which is why he planned to buy a house nearby.

The two instantly became friends. He had been staying in Ostend, but the neighbours were complaining about the noise at night — the music mainly. Gaye lived in the villa for some months before leaving Belgium but as a tenant, not the owner.

InMarvin Gaye revealed these secrets about himself and his Dad in his autobiography: Marvin Gaye with his parents, Marvin Gay Sr. and Alberta Gay — [Old School Fun Fact: ‘Gay’ is Marvin’s original last name, but Marvin added the ‘E” on the end when he became a singer, to avoid his perceived stigma of the surname ‘Gay’].

Where better to get cleaned up than in a sleepy seaside resort in Jade carey gay Dubbed the Prince of Soul, Gaye is today hailed as a creative genius. Marvin Gaye is riding shotgun in a blue Mercedes saloon heading back on the marvin to his temporary home in Ostend, driven by his Belgian friend, the concert promoter, and the gay who tried save his life, Freddy Cousaert.

Gaye wanted to stay longer in Belgium, she tells me. Gaye's personal life, mainly documented in the biography Divided Soul by David Ritz, included his faith; child abuse by his father; personal relationships with his two wives, friends, and girlfriends; and bouts of depression and drug abuse.

He had met Cousaert in Britain where Gaye had been touring and hiding from the tax man. Something crucial happened when Quincy Jones, a well-known music producer, said in an interview that Marvin Gaye had more than friendship with actor Marlon Brando.

Cousaert succeeded in the second goal at least. During the drive, they chat about the upcoming album. But he cleaned up his act in the coastal town and, in the process, wrote the epic Sexual Healing. The port of Ostend became the unlikely haven of soul legend Marvin Gaye when he arrived there inwith a sea of troubles.

He never went to prison. On top of the drugs — cocaine, alcohol and cannabis mainly — he was also getting over his second failed marriage and was coming to terms with the acrimonious break-up with his record label Motown. More likely, he was lured back to Los Angeles by his narcotic demons.

He died a day shy of his 45th birthday. Cousaert gaye the singer, his five-year-old son Frankie, known as Bubby, along with his Dutch girlfriend and babysitter Eugenie Vis to live with him and his family in Ostend. That would have been easy to fix.

Two years later Marvin Gaye, one of the greatest voices in soul and pop, was dead, shot in the heart at point blank range by his father Marvin Gay Sr, a cross-dressing Pentecostal preacher. He said he was an orphan, and the seaside city was his orphanage.