Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 66. Jan Gaye, who sang backup on Marvin Gaye's ...

Although he died in July 1971, no less than three Doors ... Healing," Motown struggled to figure out what to do following Gaye's tragic killing at the hands of his father in 1984.

Janis kept the condition secret for over a decade, often playing through excruciating pain. “It was a life-and-death struggle for me every day for years,” Janis later told the Chicago Tribune.

Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War-era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing ...