Gaye

Singer Gaye Su Akyol, a popular artist in Turkey, took to X to make a personal appeal to Muse, Robbie Williams and Norwegian singer Ane Brun.

Wilkins, who lends Barack Obama a smoky timbre as seductive as the patented sounds of Teddy Pendergrass and Marvin Gaye.

Nicole London, who directed and produced the documentary, has previously helped shape projects about Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr. and Marvin Gaye.

“That’s what I want people to come away with. This is a talent. This is a woman who had a depth and breadth of a career that’s just as memorable and worthy of canonizing as a Marvin Gaye, as a Sammy Davis Jr. or Miles Davis.”

Crow triangulates the sound among Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan and Stealers Wheel; she says the lyric illustrates “the burnout of somebody sitting in a bar across from a car wash.”