Photograph of Marvin Ruffin
Biography continued

Jimmy had moved to England and David was doing his solo career after leaving the Temptations, when Marvin started travelling singing in Canada and places nearer to home like Ohio and Chicago. Motown had left Detroit and took many artists with them. Marvin decided to move to Atlanta Georgia. There he joined a band and continued his singing endeavours travelling the cittling circuit. He soon got a call from one of his former band members asking him if he wanted to come to the Spanish Canary Isles to work. After quitting his 9 to 5, Marvin moved to Tenerife in the Canaries and worked for a year before heading off to Japan for Two years working with a 7 piece band.

That led to work in England after a friend submitted some of his work to a promoter in Liverpool, England. Since living in England Marvin has developed quite a following on the R&B circuit. Although he still does his cabaret act for clubs, weddings, etc., Marvin has opened up for "The Stylistics", Dionne Warwick, and been involved with the "Dancing in the Streets" tour with Martha Reeves. He represented the USA in 2002 at the Baltic song Festival where he was 3rd in the running of 10 countries.

While always looking for new and challenging prospects, Marvin has now decided to do a tour on his own starting in March, 2006. He will be touring the whole of the U.K. and possibly Germany, Spain, and the USA.

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