What's Going On
Few people channel the soul of an era like Marvin Gaye. Born in Washington, DC in 1939, he first learned music in his father's church. Gaye became part of the explosion of black talent that was Motown in the early 1960s. The album What's Going On gave voice to the question in the air as the turbulent 60s turned into the 70s. Few artists have the range of Marvin Gaye: he expressed the personal, political and spiritual in a style instantly recognized as his own. Gaye's music rarely brought him the comfort it gave others. His troubled life ended with a gunshot at the hands of his father.
His hometown DC honored him with a park in 2006, which like him, is known as beautiful and troubled.
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