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Marvin Gaye

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American singer-songwriter and record producer

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According to Wikipedia, Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. , who also spelled his surname as Gaye, was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, earning him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".

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