Teena Marie

Teena Marie is one of those artists I find myself defending with real passion. A white singer from Santa Monica who earned genuine love and respect in soul and R&B, she let her voice and songwriting do all the convincing. The fact that Rick James christened her Lady T speaks volumes about the company she kept and the standards she met. She did not just sing; she wrote, produced and played guitar, a complete musician in every sense. Her death in 2010 felt premature, and I think her catalogue deserves far more recognition than it currently receives.

Name (English)

Teena Marie

Name (Japanese)

ティーナ・マリー

Reading

てぃーな・まりー

Born

March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Santa Monica, California, United States

Occupation

singer / guitarist / record producer / songwriter / singer-songwriter

High school

Venice High School

University

Santa Monica College

• Official sitehttp://www.teenamarie.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teena%20Marie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235931

Tags

• California
• singer
• guitarist
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.