Marvin Gaye began his career in the late fifties, when he sang with different vocal rhythm and blues groups. He soon went on as a session drummer and singer for Motown. Gayes own albums in the sixties were characterized by a driving, energetic rhythm and blues and duets with Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell. In the seventies he created a unique, highly personal vision of rhythm and blues, which he
… socially critical elements, atmospheric arrangements and overall album themes processed. His early, violent death robbed the world of a true genius.more