David Ritz
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Freelance writer. Coauthor of Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story andRhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music.
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Marvin Gaye American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye’s father was a storefront preacher; his mother was a domestic worker. Gaye sang in his father’s Evangelical church in Washington, D.C., and became a…
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