PDogz said:

vainandy said:

Not only did she have some wonderful music, especially her earlier Motown albums, but this woman was a huge part of who I am as a person. Prince was someone I looked up to growing up as a role model when dealing with my gay side and absolutely not giving a damn what anyone thought of it, and Teena Marie was my role model dealing with my "black" side. This woman came out in 1979 on the heels of the disco era and when disco "died" the very next year and white artists were abandoning black music and the majority of the white general public was having absolutely nothing to do with black music whatsoever, this bad ass white woman continued throwing down hard, funky, and black. This woman could have been much more successful than she was but she didn't give a damn, she came in through the black door and stayed in it. She crossed over one time in 1984 and I really don't think she purposely tried to crossover, it just happened. You don't find too many black artists with the strength to throw the finger at crossing over but this woman was white and she absolutely didn't give a damn. She was well loved by the black audience and she loved them right back. As many people have said before..."Teena Marie ain't white, she's just light skinned"....that definately was true. She was a HUGE role model for me when I was growing up dealing with whites that didn't understand me and hated me and will always continue to be a role model for me. This is a huge loss and I still can't believe it.

That's very touching Andy. Lady T (...and YOU) are definitely part of our family.

Three deaths that have shook our world this year

silverchild said:

Three deaths that have shook our world this year

Rest in peace, y'all deserve the rest.

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

funkpill said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

The link only works if you copy and paste it.....

silverchild said:

Three deaths that have shook our world this year

Beautiful.

Legends, all three of them.

They will be missed.

Serious said:

funkpill said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

The link only works if you copy and paste it.....

I think I know what the problem is. When you click on the "link" symbols and put the link in, it erroneously links you to the other page, so I usually find out if you put the tags in manually it works that way. That's how I was able to put so many embedded YouTube videos because someone people click on the link box and then paste the link and then put the YouTube tags in it.

Serious said:

funkpill said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

The link only works if you copy and paste it.....

dang

funkpill said:

Serious said:

The link only works if you copy and paste it.....

dang

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

I love this drawing...

Reminds me of this joint:

MidniteMagnet said:

I have read every post in this thread and it seems like everything has been covered. We all know how incredible this woman was, and that VOICE. The first time I heard her I stopped dead in my tracks. I was THAT blown away by her voice. I went and bought her entire catalogue on CD and I've been obsessed ever since. I memorized all of her lyrics, every note she sung, watched every performance I could find on Youtube, tracked down rare remixes, etc. I have vinyl copies of Emerald City and Starchild on my bedroom wall. I was even more blown away when I realized she wrote, performed and arranged most all of her stuff.

I even met my bf through a Yahoo Teena Marie message board. I had e-mailed a fan in California looking to buy copies of old Teena performances on VHS (this was before Youtube). She noticed I lived in Maine and she forwarded my e-mail to a friend of hers in Maine who had just moved here and was lonely and looking for friends. It turned out that he lived about 2 blocks from my house. I literally walked to his house a few days later and we've been together 6 years.

It's killing me that I'll never hear new music from Teena or watch her live on tv but she gave me hundreds of songs and memories to last the rest of my life. And I would never have met my bf if I had never become a fan. She did that for me too! And he calls me Tony Tee.

I love to draw and here are two sketches I did of Teena. I always wanted to send them to her on Twitter or somethng but I never remembered to. I think she would like them. One is a sketch of Lady T and one is my own design called Neferteena. I love you Teena! Your music means SOOO much to me. RIP girl!!

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V103 is playing nothing but Teena right now

2 hours of her music

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Wow RIP Teena. Bless her daughter through this difficult time.

MidniteMagnet said:

I have read every post in this thread and it seems like everything has been covered. We all know how incredible this woman was, and that VOICE. The first time I heard her I stopped dead in my tracks. I was THAT blown away by her voice. I went and bought her entire catalogue on CD and I've been obsessed ever since. I memorized all of her lyrics, every note she sung, watched every performance I could find on Youtube, tracked down rare remixes, etc. I have vinyl copies of Emerald City and Starchild on my bedroom wall. I was even more blown away when I realized she wrote, performed and arranged most all of her stuff.

I even met my bf through a Yahoo Teena Marie message board. I had e-mailed a fan in California looking to buy copies of old Teena performances on VHS (this was before Youtube). She noticed I lived in Maine and she forwarded my e-mail to a friend of hers in Maine who had just moved here and was lonely and looking for friends. It turned out that he lived about 2 blocks from my house. I literally walked to his house a few days later and we've been together 6 years.

It's killing me that I'll never hear new music from Teena or watch her live on tv but she gave me hundreds of songs and memories to last the rest of my life. And I would never have met my bf if I had never become a fan. She did that for me too! And he calls me Tony Tee.

I love to draw and here are two sketches I did of Teena. I always wanted to send them to her on Twitter or somethng but I never remembered to. I think she would like them. One is a sketch of Lady T and one is my own design called Neferteena. I love you Teena! Your music means SOOO much to me. RIP girl!!

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Those sketches are beautiful. I used to draw alot, i should get back to it once i find my sketch book.

This cut just came on my iPod and I'm trying not to shed tears...

We will always miss you Teena and Rick! R.I.P. Damn such a tough lost!

Timmy84 said:

funkpill said:

dang

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

funkpill said:

Timmy84 said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/327111

MidniteMagnet said:

Thanks for the comments guys! I've been drawing since I was a kid.

Beautiful drawings MM, I love them! Thank you for sharing them.

silverchild said:

Three deaths that have shook our world this year

Despite her own health problems in her final years, Lena lived a very long life. Teena & Teddy are old-school classics, without question. Lena IS Legend!

Timmy84 said:

funkpill said:

http://www.imdb.com/media.../nm1436471

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http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

incredible sad loss ... may she shine eternally

much strength to her family and friends, especially her daughter Alia Rose who just celebrated her birthday

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allsmutaside said:

Timmy84 said:

http://www.imdb.com/media.../nm1436471

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http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

http://www.eurweb.com/?p=74046

Look out for this one - made me cry for sure.

Sorry about the Christmas card, kind of a funny mistake though.

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Photos circa 1980s. (Credit: Corbis)

Im STILL speechless!

New York Times

Teena Marie, 1980s R&B Hitmaker, Dies at 54

http://www.nytimes.com/20...ndex.jsonp

May she rest in peace - but I resent the media and some people referring to her as "The Ivory Queen of Soul".

Hell what is that?

Just like calling Mary J. Blige "The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul". Is there such a genre of music called Hip-Hop Soul or Ivory Soul?

Puffy named named Mary that, and he is no authority on soul, he is about as souless and clueless as they come.

These monikers are getting ridiculous to say the least.

Dusty Springfield was a real blue-eyed soul sister way before Teena Marie and Janis Joplin was no slough either and Lydia Pense of Cold Blood from the Bay Area was fiyahh as well. Lulu is pretty soulful too.

Teena was good - but crowning her a queen of a non-existent genre is a bit much.

RnBAmbassador said:

May she rest in peace - but I resent the media and some people referring to her as "The Ivory Queen of Soul".

Hell what is that?

Just like calling Mary J. Blige "The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul". Is there such a genre of music called Hip-Hop Soul or Ivory Soul?

Puffy named named Mary that, and he is no authority on soul, he is about as souless and clueless as they come.

These monikers are getting ridiculous to say the least.

Dusty Springfield was a real blue-eyed soul sister way before Teena Marie and Janis Joplin was no slough either and Lydia Pense of Cold Blood from the Bay Area was fiyahh as well. Lulu is pretty soulful too.

Teena was good - but crowning her a queen of a non-existent genre is a bit much.

Maybe you and Puff can help each other find some clues then. You might want to check that moniker, too. For sure you need to review the Ambassador assignation - find a dictionary. This it not the time, place or thread for that passive aggresive bullshit. Square Biz.

RnBAmbassador said:

May she rest in peace - but I resent the media and some people referring to her as "The Ivory Queen of Soul".

Hell what is that?

Just like calling Mary J. Blige "The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul". Is there such a genre of music called Hip-Hop Soul or Ivory Soul?

Puffy named named Mary that, and he is no authority on soul, he is about as souless and clueless as they come.

These monikers are getting ridiculous to say the least.

Dusty Springfield was a real blue-eyed soul sister way before Teena Marie and Janis Joplin was no slough either and Lydia Pense of Cold Blood from the Bay Area was fiyahh as well. Lulu is pretty soulful too.

Teena was good - but crowning her a queen of a non-existent genre is a bit much.

Nobody said there was a genre called "Ivory Soul". It's just simply "Soul" or "R&B" or "Funk" or whatever you want to call it and Teena Marie was definately the "Ivory Queen" of it. R&B is a black genre, and believe me, very few white people listened to it for years after disco's "death". Yes, there were a few white pop artists like Hall and Oates and Queen who had a hit on black radio but they were pop artists who just happened to have a song that R&B radio liked and started playing. I've never heard of the other people you named with the exception of Janis Joplin, and she doesn't exactly have a huge following of black fans.

Teena Marie was no pop artist that just happened to have a hit or two that was soulful or funky enough that black radio picked up on it. She came out from day one through the "black door" making R&B, soul, funk, etc. and continued making it album, after album, after album still remaining a soul artist with no desire to be a pop artist. Others may have done what she did a time or two prior to her but she was the most well loved, most successful, and most accepted white artist to a huge part of the R&B community as one of their own. This woman came out and continued what she was doing when very few white people listened to R&B music and would have hated her for doing what she was doing if they had ever heard of her. A few of them had heard of her and she got the same comments as I got at the time. We all know the famous word..."nigger lover". Just go over to youtube and look at some of the earlier comments about her such as "burn in hell nigger loving bitch" before the other commenters started jumping all over them for being racist. I felt like it was 1980 again. Yeah, I'm sure she got those comments in the past but she didn't let them stop her from doing whatever the hell she wanted to do. This woman loved black music, she loved black men, and she loved black people and a whole hell of a lot of them loved her right back as one their own. This woman may have been white but her soul was definately black. She deserves her title of Ivory Queen of Soul because that's definately what she was.

Identity said:

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If I'm not mistaken, I believe this was taken during her Emerald City period...I could be totally wrong of course, but it seems 1985, 1986-ish to me...