Genre: R & B
Album: Best Of/20th Century
Original Release : 3/13/2007
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Album: Ooh Wee
Original Release : 2/28/2006
Ultimate Collection: Teena Marie
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Hip-O
Best Of/20th Century
2007
Universal
No white artist has sang R&B more convincingly than Teena Marie, whose big, robust vocals are so black-sounding that when she was starting out, some listeners wondered if she was a light-skinned African-American. Not to be confused with Brazilian jazz singer Tânia Maria, Marie grew up in west Los Angeles in a neighborhood that was nicknamed "Venice Harlem" because of its heavy black population. The singer/songwriter/producer was in her early twenties when, around 1977, she landed a job at Motown Records. It was at Motown that she met her mentor and paramour-to-be, Rick James Read More
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