Many institutions have posthumously bestowed Gaye with awards and other honors including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and inductions into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2.3 What's Going On and subsequent success.2.4 Last Motown recordings and European exile.
5.4 Social commentary and concept albums.Was born on April 2, 1939, at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C., to church minister Marvin Gay Sr.