Jan Gaye After The Dance

We know the music. We've read about the writers of the songs. No matter how many times the tunes play on the radio or you download it from YouTube. There's still a deeper story to the formation of the Artist's roots. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with the woman that stood beside and behind Marvin Gaye. It's Jan Gaye A riveting cautionary tale about being in love with a legend, AFTER THE DANCE: My Life With Marvin Gaye is a searing memoir of love, drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the widow of soul and sex icon Marvin Gaye. After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye, the soulful prince of Motown whose chart-topping, socially conscious album “What’s Going On” had made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a 17-year age difference and Marvin’s marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, they began a scorching affair. One moment Jan was a high school student; the next she was spending every day with Marvin; navigating the dark and intriguing world of 1970’s and 1980’s celebrity; hanging with Don Cornelius on the set of Soul Train; and helping to discover new talent like Frankie Beverly and Maze. But the distractions and burdens of fame, the chaos of dysfunctional families, and the irresistible temptations of drugs complicated the love they shared. Primarily silent since Marvin’s tragic death in 1984, Jan at last opens up, sharing the moving, fervently charged love story of one of music history’s most fabled relationships. Unsparing in its honesty and insight, and illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, AFTER THE DANCE reveals what it’s like to be in love with a creative genius who helped transform popular culture and whose artistry continues to be celebrated today. Jan Gaye is the second wife of late legendary recording artist Marvin Gaye (1939 - 1984) and the mother of his children, Nona and Frank Gaye. Born in Los Angeles, she currently resides in Rhode Island.