Teena Marie (born Mary Christine Brockert on March 5, 1956 in Santa Monica, California, USA) is an American singer/songwriter/producer. Marie, nicknamed "Lady T", is a protegé of late funk legend Rick James, and is notable as one of the few successful Caucasian R&B performers, currently the reputed queen of blue-eyed soul. She sings R&B with big, robust vocals. She has daughter Alia Rose http://www.pictureperfectagency.com/index.php?module=assetserver&page=setDetail&setId=62143&hLids=755632:755633, http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?navtyp=SRH&sfld=C&logsrch=1&s=alia%20rose.
Biography
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, who ended up doing all of the writing and producing for her debut album of 1979, W
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