*The July 25th announcement by community activist Najee Ali – that President Trump signed a bill into law to have a Los Angeles post office renamed after the late great Marvin Gaye Jr. – reminded me ...

Do you remember what you were doing the evening of May 16, 1983? Well, you may have been one of the 47 million people tuned into NBC’s landmark special “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever.” But ...

In the late ’50s, a little-known songwriter named Berry Gordy took $800 he scrounged together from family and a few paltry royalty payments to found Tamla Records—better known at Motown Records. Today ...

This isn’t the first expanded edition of the classic album, but the team behind it feels like it deserved a fresh look into what the archives held. Weinger, who produced the original “Let’s Get It On: ...

Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and the inspiration for several of his songs, died Saturday of an undisclosed cause at her home in Rhode Island, her family announced.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Marvin Gaye’s timeless soul classic What’s Going On. To mark the anniversary, Motown has released a new lyric video for the title track, ...

Marvin Gaye skyrocketed to stardom as a leading Motown artist in the 1960s and 1970s. He become iconic for projects like "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing." His impact on the industry still lives ...

LOS ANGELES ‒ Christmastime and Motown are two of the world's favorite things, and both share a distinctly American musical history. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles recorded the famed label's first ...

She served as the inspiration for his 1976 album, 'I Want You,' and managed the career of their daughter, actress-singer Nona Gaye. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of ...

Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 66. Jan Gaye, who sang backup on Marvin Gaye's 1977 ...