Marvin Gaye was one of the couple’s four kids, and she was the second oldest. He had a brother named Frankie Gaye and two sisters named Jeanne and Zeola.
Additionally, he has two half-brothers: Michael Cooper, a child from a prior relationship with his mother, and Antwaun Carey Gay, a child from his father’s extramarital escapades.
Marvin Gaye siblings: Meet Jeanne, Zeola, Frankie
When Gaye was four years old, he began singing in church, frequently with his father playing the piano.
Gaye and his family belonged to the House of God Pentecostal Church, which followed both the Old and the New Testaments and borrowed its doctrines from Hebrew Pentecostalism.
Gaye had a love for singing at a young age and was inspired to pursue a career in music after performing “Be My Love” by Mario Lanza in a school play when she was 11 years old. His father beat him “brutally beating” at home, striking him for any shortcomings.
