Why did Marvin Gaye's father kill him?Serious answers only.?

Question

Was it out of jealousy? or was it deeper?

or something different?

Answer 1

In the abstract, the details of Marvin Gaye's death read like a Biblical parable: Man hollers at wife. Son, defending mother, hollers back at father. Father hollers at son. Son smites father. Father kills son.

The slaying, 20 years ago this spring, was the climax of a long-festering, pathological relationship between the troubled, drug-addled soul singer and his oddball father.

Their relationship featured violence, competition, humiliation, rancor and hate. They had argued and fought most of their lives, perhaps because they were too much alike to ever hope to get along.

Each was deeply conflicted.

Marvin Sr. was a terminally out-of-work fundamentalist preacher who ranted against the sins of indulgence. Yet he was an avid consumer of vodka and a zealous cross-dresser.



Marvin Gaye Jr., 1983 performance


Like his dad, Marvin Jr. was a contradictory character, made up of equal parts hubris and self-loathing, boundless egomania and debilitating insecurities.

He consumed prodigious amounts of cocaine and as a result spent his life in debt, despite earning millions.

"How much have I spent in toot over the years?" Gaye mused a few years before his death. "I don't want to know... Enough to certify me as a fool. You'd have to call me a drug addict and a sex freak."

True, sex was another of Gay's singular contradictions.

Answer 2

Marvin Gaye Father Shot Him

Answer 3

marvin gayefather kill son

Answer 4

Well his mother say when he was a kid that the father never liked him that she say that the father say he wish marvin wasn't his son I guess it was jealousy but when the police interview him he say he never disliked his son....