For its 24th season, titled “Simply the Best!” Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Will Close the season than with its most-requested original musical, “Marvin Gaye: Prince of Soul.” Sheldon Rhoden will ...

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Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

But the sight of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 What’s Going On atop Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list is a formidable reminder that socially-conscious pop was very much alive during that ...

In 2016, Jan Gaye was invited to dinner with bell hooks, the great humanist intellectual, and asked me along. Jan and I had recently collaborated on her autobiography, “After the Dance,” and hooks was ...

Marvin Gaye recorded the song “What’s Going On?” in June and July of 1970, though it took six months of wrangling with the conservative leadership of Motown Records to get it released as a single the ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the tragic death of Marvin Gaye, but as his legacy lives on, so may an opportunity to hear previously unreleased music from the singer. According to the BBC, ...

The new song "Marvin's Room" by rapper Drake glances back at Gaye's sultry, vulnerable persona. This week may have seen the 40th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's birth, but another soulful revenant has ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Recognized as a genius in his time, Gaye excavated his personal life for ...