Teena Marie - Dead - Dec 26 2010

Daily I feel like I hear a Teena Marie, Rick James or Prince song on the radio. I just love love their brand of funky. I am slowly attempting to engage my oldest daughter into falling in love with there music. When I hear a Teena Maire track I feel like dancing, or even tearing up sometimes it makes me want to just fall in love. Teena Marie along with Rick James music put me on the road to my love of Funky. The lyrics, her strut as she delivered each line to you. Ms Teena Marie even had a way of delivering her own form of lyrical style a little bit of a rapper. Defiantly before her time transcending color and just making beautiful music.

Amazing I just fell in love at a young age to there brand of music. It shocked me when I received a text stating that she had died. We never think of death it is hidden in the far reaches of our mind. The think is death is real people die daily and one day all of us will. I am sadden that I only saw Teena Marie once one summer at Wingate Field in Brooklyn, NY. Her music lives own and I will continue to immerse my daughters in the music and hopefully they will come to lover her as much as I have. Its sad that she died pretty young at 54 with so much more she had to offer to a new generation of music lovers. Thank you Teena Marie for touching my heart with "Lovergirl", "Square Biz", "Fire and Desire" and more recently "Can't Last a Day".