Marvin Gayetion

D.C. native Marvin Gaye left his footprint all over the city, and there’s even a map highlighting where. One of these spots was the Capitol Heights neighborhood, where the Gay family moved in 1954. He lived only a few hundred feet from where the station sits today and made lasting impressions on the neighborhood. It was at the nearby Watts Branch Playground (now, appropriately, Marvin Gaye Park) where Gaye gave his first public onstage performance, an a cappella concert with his friends. This probably wasn’t where Gaye was discovered, but in the years to come he would go on to record numerous Top 10 hits, win a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.