The story of a charismatic rebel at the heart of Detroit's Motown Sound. He radiated love in his life and music, yet courted destruction.​
His jealous preacher father gave him a strong spiritual base, and a gnawing streak of self doubt. His mother was his abiding love; a long-suffering, benign inspiration.​​
Early marriage to Anna, the guiding sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, gives way to a head-over-heels love affair with muse Jan. Followed by exile in Europe, and a tragic return home.
This man confronted his demons on a turbulent crusade of discovery. This man was Marvin Gaye.
The script is based on extensive public domain research, with no attachments.
Prompted by an insider's belief that the music sync rights were do-able. Though
this hurdle remains.​
Written in kaleidescopic manner to project Marvin's candid, spontaneous, often amused, analysis of his extraordinary life - and anticipated death.
The tone is essentially celebratory, of a man fated to embrace the extremes of secular and sanctified, and with the genius and wit to portray his journey in sublimely soulful music.
