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David Ritz

David Ritz is a pioneer of the collaborative autobiography, helping to write celebrated memoirs by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Marvin Gaye. He has also been nominated for a Grammy numerous times for his liner notes, and won the Grammy for Best Album Notes for his work on Aretha Franklin’s Queen of Soul.

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Grammy winner David Ritz, who cowrote Marvin Gaye’s legendary “Sexual Healing,” recalls how the song emerged from Gaye’s struggles with faith, drug addiction, and childhood abuse.
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