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Marvin Isley died on June 6, 2010, from complications of diabetes at the Seasons Hospice within Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, at age 56. [4] [5] Besides his brothers Rudolph, Ronald, and Ernie, Isley was survived by his wife Sheila Felton Isley, a son Cory, and two daughters, Sydney and Jalen. [3]
The Isley Brothers' final album under their six-member lineup, Between the Sheets (1983), sold more than two million copies. By then, financial struggles, creative difficulties, and other issues affected the group. Shortly after the success of Between the Sheets, Ernie, Marvin, and Chris left the Isley Brothers and formed Isley-Jasper-Isley.
Isley-Jasper-Isley was a splinter group of the Isley Brothers formed in 1984 by brother-in-law Chris Jasper (keyboards), Ernie Isley (lead guitar), and Marvin Isley (bass), due to creative differences that arose among the group.
The younger Isleys split off as Isley-Jasper-Isley in the 1980s, but the brothers continued to record together, scoring new songs on the Hot 100 in six different decades. O’Kelly died in 1986 ...
Ernie, Marvin, and Chris left to form Isley-Jasper-Isley, while Rudolph, Ronald and O'Kelly carried on as the Isley Brothers, releasing "Masterpiece" on Warner Bros. in 1985.
Jasper — whose sister Elaine was Rudolph Isley's wife — joined the group as a keyboardist in 1973 along with younger Isley brothers Ernie and Marvin and helped usher in a chapter of slow funk ...
Isley married Margret Tinsley in 1960, and in 1969 their daughter Trenisha Isley was born. In 1993, he married singer Angela Winbush. [13] They share a daughter named Tawanna Isley who was born during their marriage. The couple divorced in early 2002. [citation needed] Isley suffered a mild stroke in London in 2004, which halted an Isley ...
In 1984, Jasper and the two youngest Isley brothers formed the trio Isley-Jasper-Isley, releasing chart-topping songs like the 1985 hit "Caravan of Love." Jasper also had a successful solo career ...