Marvin Gaye If This World Were Mine ( Claes Rosen Remix)

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. ) April 2, 1939 April 1, 1984 He was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an inhouse session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including Ain t That Peculiar, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) and I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles Prince of Motown and Prince of Soul. During the 1970s, he recorded the albums What s Going On and Let s Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown (joint with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the reins of a production company. His later recordings influenced several contemporary R B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo soul. Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he released the 1982 Grammy Awardwinning hi