THIS thread needs some uptempo tracks!

You So Heavy

[Edited 12/27/10 13:08pm]

Here's her live performance of the same song on Soul Train:

i am going to be working on filling out my Teena Marie collection in the coming days. Looks like everything is still available for download via amazon or itunes apart from 'Passion Play'. Does anyone know where that might be available? It sounds interesting.

http://www.tmz.com/2010/1...nts-anchor UPDATE

the timing seems off by her twitter pages:-?

NoVideo said:

i am going to be working on filling out my Teena Marie collection in the coming days. Looks like everything is still available for download via amazon or itunes apart from 'Passion Play'. Does anyone know where that might be available? It sounds interesting.

there are some used cd's available on amazon, however since her passing the prices have shot up... starting at 38.39

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

banks said:

wow 15hrs ago she was alive twittering away

MsTeenaMarie

1. @AMindwNoCeiling No I haven't found it! What was the name of the Pope John Paul 2nd/Sarah Vaughan Project? about 10 hours ago via Echofon in reply to AMindwNoCeiling
3. MORE RAIN IN CALI!!! I NEED A BOAT!!! about 11 hours ago via Echofon
5. Sarah Vaughan "May You never grow old, and may I never die"... about 15 hours ago via Echofon
7. Happy Birthday @RoseyDough about 15 hours ago via Echofon
9. Happy Birthday Baby Jeshua! You fill my Life with Love Always! Thankyou for Being Born! about 15 hours ago via Echofon
11. May Gods Light always shine on you and your family! May you have the most joyous Holliday season ever! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! about 15 hours ago via Echofon

Ok. That just made me lose it!

It's the REALITY of it all...here one moment, gone the next!

OMG...I've got to get off of this.

Live everyday to the fullest but most of all...love yourselves and somebody! Forgive yourselves and somebody!

For real... your time could be in the next few minutes. When you walk out of your door you never know if you will return. And love is all that really matters.

noimageatall said:

I am in tears. She was my idol and inspiration. I just can't believe it.

Both too young to go.

1. Welcome back.

2. You should have seen my earlier posts when I was in tears AND mad as hell at the same time over the fact that we're have been losing our r&b/soul/funk legends at age 50-something since 1999. Even now, I'm still in over this.

Teena Marie Died During Sunday Nap

12/27/2010 11:30 AM PST by TMZ Staff

Teena Marie's death could have been caused by a grand mal seizure while taking a nap ... sources tell TMZ.



As we previously reported, Tina suffered a grand mal seizure a month before her death. Close family friends tell us Tina has suffered other seizures, but the grand mal shook her up badly. We're told she had broken two ribs after falling during that seizure.

We're told the L.A. County Coroner's Office found diazepam -- an antiseizure drug -- at Teena's home, but friends say she had stopped taking the medicine because of side effects and began taking herbal remedies instead.

Friends also tell TMZ ... Teena was so scared of having another grand mal seizure she would have someone sleep next to her at night.

Friends say on Saturday night someone slept in the same room with Teena and left in the morning. Teena was talking with her bodyguard at around 11:30 AM. She went back to bed in the early afternoon -- no one was with her when she slept. Teena's daughter checked in with her at around 1 PM and Teena was fine.

But at around 3 PM, Teena's daughter checked in with her again, and found her unresponsive.

The Coroner has said signs point to death from natural causes. But "natural causes" could be death from a seizure.

TonyVanDam said:

noimageatall said:

I am in tears. She was my idol and inspiration. I just can't believe it.

Both too young to go.

1. Welcome back.

2. You should have seen my earlier posts when I was in tears AND mad as hell at the same time over the fact that we're have been losing our r&b/soul/funk legends at age 50-something since 1999. Even now, I'm still in over this.

I just feel an emptiness in my stomach, Tony.

Timmy84 said:

Here's her live performance of the same song on Soul Train:

Love the bass on Behind the Groove. Saw that Soul Train reairing a few weeks back and was absolutely jamming with her. Got a kick out of her slow motion dance.

This was one of the most vintage and classic sounding cuts on her 13th and unfortunately, her last album Congo Square. Too funky...takes me back to the summer of last year!

December's not a good month at all when it comes to death:

• December 11, 1964 - Sam Cooke (murdered)
• December 26, 1999 - Curtis Mayfield (complications due to his 1990 accident that left him paraplegic)
• December 25, 2006 - James Brown (congestive heart failure)
• December 25, 2008 - Eartha Kitt (natural causes)
• December 26, 2010 - Teena Marie

I don't know if that's all of them but it's still not good but I guess it's just coincidence because some of them had health problems. Only Sam Cooke was the one that got snuffed out for no reason.

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Appreciating Teena Marie: 'The Ivory Queen of Soul' made R&B colorless December 27, 2010 | 1:05 pm

It’s impossible to lend an ear to today’s crop of R&B divas without hearing just a little bit of Teena Marie. Though she never had the blockbuster commercial success or universal household appeal of some of her peers (Patti Labelle, Anita Baker and Whitney Houston quickly come to mind), Marie -- who died Sunday at age 54 -- left a perhaps more important, and lasting, contribution to R&B than record sales: She made the genre colorless. Venturing through the self-proclaimed Ivory Queen of Soul’s back catalog, it’s easy to see how everyone from Mary J. Blige to Faith Evans to Alicia Keys got some of their groove. However, Marie’s career was forever highlighted by the fact that she was a white woman singing historically black music -- something that doesn’t even remotely warrant a second guess in today’s landscape of artists of every race tackling any genre and gaining success. But Marie was always different. Though she never catapulted into the more bankable pop world, she broke ground. After the Santa Monica-born songstress got her big break at Motown Records in the late '70s, she rode a wave of hits -- "Lovergirl," "I'm a Sucker for Your Love" "Ooh La La La" and "Square Biz" are all required listening -- and Marie was a girl whose debut album, “Wild and Peaceful,” famously opted not to include a photo of her on the cover, out of fear that R&B listeners might not buy or accept her because of her race. Marie did what at the time was thought to be the impossible: crossing over to black radio and retail stores -- and staying there. She could have easily become a novelty act because of her color, but she didn’t. And how could she? Whether you were slow dancing to “Fire and Desire” (a simmering duet with her mentor and frequent collaborator, the late Rick James) in the '80s or a kid digging through their parent's album collection and discovering the upbeat frenzy of “Square Biz,” Lady T found her way into the hearts of every R&B fan. Unlike some rap purists who downplayed Eminem as he was rising, Marie made it impossible to question her authenticity. She sang with such passion, conviction and blues that she was often labeled “a black girl trapped in a white woman’s body.” Her extensive catalog is pure R&B, though the girl had funk -- watching her behind the rhythm guitar, keyboards or percussion, she had the swagger of the big boys, including James. But she was all her own. Her showmanship -- the way she worked the stage with that big brazen hair, seductive dance moves and that voice -- erased any naysayers who might have said that whites couldn’t sing soul. The Times obituary of Marie mentions a 1981 performance at the Long Beach Arena that seemed to define her standing: "A tiny young woman with a powerful voice, Marie is a terrific singer and, quite frankly, better than nearly all her black competitors." Current soulful acts such as Amy Winehouse, Adele, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke might cite James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson as inspirations into the world of rhythm and blues, but had Marie not crossed over, R&B might not be the embracing, ever-evolving genre that it is today. In a 1980 interview with The Times, Marie talked at length about how some listeners refused to believe she was white. "I tell them I'm white, but they think I'm black and I'm trying to pass for white.... This is white skin. I'm not trying to fool anybody. "I'm a different kind of person. Blacks and whites don't really react in any special way to me. I don't get anything negative from blacks and not really anything negative from whites now. But I will say it was different before I started getting some popularity. I don't think it was prejudice from whites as much as ignorance of something they didn't know much about. You know, I wish I was colorless sometimes." -- Gerrick D. Kennedy twitter.com/gerrickkennedy

http://latimesblogs.latim...rless.html

[Edited 12/27/10 13:55pm]

Truly a Lady...R.I.P Teena

Unexpected, brutal

A hot, amazing and funky woman has left us. God Bless Her :RIP:

It's also kind of funny...that on Christmas Day, I watching the movie "Pretty In Pink" and my ears woke up at the part, where the guy in the movie wanted to return an album...and Molly Ringwald's character suggest..."Madonna? Teena Marie?" She's had such an impact on my life through her music! I've met her, gotten her autograph, and met her Mother too. I feel very lucky to have been blessed with the SOUL of Ms. Christine Marie Brockert...U will live forever with the Music U left us! R.I.P. the one and only...Lady Tee

Being snowed in here in NY, been playing Teena all day. She is getting a lot of love on Twitter too. That makes me feel a little better.

Timmy84 said:

This is the jam! One of my favorite duets. Teena sang the hell outta this.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VW9j9xr_Qg&feature=sub

Video from Lenny K, about Teena he posted today...

OMG! Just on Yahoo and saw this news. Damn, so sad! too too young for a music legend. Rest in Peace Teena, thank you for all the wonderful music you bestowed on this planet :pray

I am shocked by how much mainstream media attention her death is getting. Finally, the media does something right.

Another forgotten and underappreciated cut from Lady T...from Ivory

Great cut from her last album, Congo Square

She was so underrated as a songwriter...great lyrics on both songs.

Lammastide said:

Wow. I've never been a Teena Marie fan. In fact, I've always been very much a critic of hers. The voice just never did much for me.

I have to say, though, I really gain a certain respect for her reading the responses here and across the internet. I had no idea she had such a sizeable, loyal following. Good on her.

It's just wild how huge she was to certain segments of the population. Her music was part of the musical foundation of my youth. So many good times and so many tears shed to her music.

Gunsnhalen said:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VW9j9xr_Qg&feature=sub

Video from Lenny K, about Teena he posted today...

I really hope that come Grammy time she gets her long overdue credit in form of a proper tribute and not just a flash of her puc during the "in Memoriam" outtro into commercials.

johnart said:

I am so terribly upset over this.

So many songs, words, melodies that will never be forgotten. I was so head over heels giddy to get to meet her last summer.

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You brought great joy and inspiration to so many. You will be greatly missed.

R.I.P. beautiful Lady T.

The light in your eyes....

So happy you had this moment

Timmy84 said:

If this was posted already, my apologies:

“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Teena.”

The singer said Marie took him in when he was 16 years old and living on the street.

“She gave me a bedroom,” he says. “She fed me, she cooked for me, she took care of me. She gave me instruments to play; she took me to all her recording sessions. She took me to concerts, she nurtured me and helped me to become who I am.”

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I just got home from and was finally able to view Lenny's tribute and it has moved me to tears.. God please give us a break in 2011..... I'm just not ready to lose anymore of my musical heroes..