We heard it through the grapevine. A new exhibit at the
Motown Museum will take visitors through artifacts like sheet music, album covers and costumes spanning the 20-year Motown Records career of Marvin Gaye. In an interview with Marvin's ex-wife Janis Gaye, she says she's in talks to loan some of his personal effects to the museum, which will host the exhibit through at least September.
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She said she hopes museum visitors see the depth of his creativity
and recognize his enduring legacy, which includes a performance next May
of the "What's Going On" album by John Legend and The Roots with the
National Symphony Orchestra. It marks the 40th anniversary of Gaye
performing the album at the same venue.
"I would just like for people to see his whole body of work,"
Janis Gaye said. "Socially conscious, sexually conscious, whatever it
happens to be. It's all Marvin. It all came from that one mind."
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