Teena Marie (March 5, 1956 - December 26th, 2010) was an American singer–so… Read Full Bio ↴Teena Marie (March 5, 1956 - December 26th, 2010) was an American singer–songwriter–producer. (Born Mary Christine Brockert) Marie, nicknamed Lady T, was a protegée of the late funk legend Rick James, and is notable as one of the few successful multi-ethnic performers of R&B. She sang R&B with big, robust vocals, and played rhythm guitar, keyboards and congas. She also had written, produced, sung and arranged virtually all of her songs since her 1980 release Irons in the Fire. She has quoted this as being her favorite album. She is survived by a daughter named Alia Rose who, as of 2009, sings under the name Rose Le Beau.
Early Life
Marie was born in Santa Monica, California. She is of Belgian, Portuguese, Irish, Italian, and Native American ancestry. Marie grew up in Oakwood, a neighborhood in West Los Angeles. As a child, she had an acting role on The Beverly Hillbillies, credited as Tina Marie Brockert. She also sang at the wedding of actor Jerry Lewis's son when she was 10 years old.
Marie worked briefly at Pup 'n' Taco in the mid 1970s while attending Venice High School, where she joined the Summer Dance Production, and also had a role in the school's production of The Music Man.
1979–1981: Motown era
Marie signed with Motown Records in 1976, having gained an introduction to staff producer Hal Davis (best known for his work with The Jackson 5) and then auditioned, with her then band, for label boss Berry Gordy. She recorded unreleased material with a number of different producers, including Kerner and Wise, but was then spotted by Rick James, who effectively became her mentor. (Some of the earlier unreleased material has since been made available on compilation albums.) Her debut album release, Wild and Peaceful, was originally conceived as a project to be produced by James for Diana Ross, but James preferred to work with Marie. The album was at one point due to be credited to "Tina Tryson", but ultimately was put out under Marie's now-established stage name. It scored Marie her first top-ten R&B hit, "I'm Just a Sucker for Your Love" (#8 Black Singles Chart), which was a duet with James. Neither the album sleeve nor other packaging showed a picture of Marie, apparently on the theory that black audiences might be reluctant to buy an album by a white artist. In fact, many radio programmers wrongly assumed Marie was African American during the earliest months of her career. This myth was dispelled when, in 1980, her sophomore album, Lady T, sported a picture of her on the cover.
Marie's second album is noted for having production from Richard Rudolph (husband of R&B singer Minnie Riperton who passed a year earlier). Marie had asked Berry Gordy to contact Rudolph and secure his input as Rick James was unavailable and she did not feel quite ready yet to be sole producer of her own material. Rudolph intended for the song he penned, "Now That I Have You", to be sung by his wife, but was later given to Marie. Rudolph also co-composed the single "Behind The Groove", which reached number 21 on the black singles chart. The song was also included on the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the Fever 105 station. Another notable track, "Too Many Colors," featured Rudolph and Riperton's then 7-year-old daughter, Maya Rudolph, who became Teena Marie's god-daughter.
Also in 1980, Marie released her third LP, Irons in The Fire, in which she handled all writing and production herself, including the horn and rhythm arrangements of her band and all backing vocals. The single "I Need Your Lovin'" (#37 Pop, #9 Black Singles) brought Teena her first top 40 hit. That same year, Teena Marie appeared on James' hugely successful album Street Songs with the steamy duet "Fire and Desire." The two would perform the single at the 2004 BET Awards, which would be the two's last TV appearance with one another as Rick James passed later that year.
Marie continued her success with Motown in 1981 with the release of It Must Be Magic (#2 Black Albums Chart), her first gold record, which included her then biggest hit on R&B, "Square Biz" (#3 Black Singles). Other notable tracks include "Portuguese Love" (featuring a brief, uncredited cameo by James, #54 Black Singles), the title track "It Must be Magic" (#30 Black Singles), and album only track "Yes Indeed" which Marie cites as a personal favorite.
In 1982, Marie got into a heated legal battle with Motown records over her contract and disagreements on releasing her new material. The shuffle resulted in "The Brockert Initiative", which makes it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist. The artist would then be able to sign and release with another label instead of being held back by an unsupportive one. Teena Marie commented on the law in an LA Times article, saying, "It wasn't something I set out to do. I just wanted to get away from Motown and have a good life. But it helped a lot of people, like Luther Vandross and the Mary Jane Girls and a lot of different artists, to be able to get out of their contracts".
1983-1991: Epic Records
After leaving Motown in 1982, Marie signed with Epic Records in 1983 and released the concept album Robbery, which featured the hit "Fix It" (#21 R&B), as well as "track artist=Teena Marie]Shadow Boxing" and "Casanova Brown." The latter was one of a number of tracks Marie would write over the years about her real-life romance with one-time mentor Rick James. The relationship had ended by that point, but the two would continue a sometimes tempestuous friendship until James's death. In 1984, Marie released her biggest-selling album, Starchild. It yielded the singles "Lovergirl" and "Out on a Limb," the former of which became Marie's highest-peaking single to date on the US pop charts, peaking at #4, while peaking at #9 on the R&B charts. "Out on a Limb" was not as successful as "Lovergirl" on the R&B Charts, however, peaking only at #56. Also in 1985, "14k" (R&B #87) was featured on the soundtrack of the film Goonies.
In 1986, Marie released a rock-music-influenced concept album titled Emerald City. It was controversial with her established fan base and not as successful as its predecessors. She also recorded another rock-influenced track, "Lead Me On", co-produced by Georgio Moroder, for the soundtrack of the box office hit film Top Gun that year. In 1988, however, she returned to her R&B and funk roots releasing the critically-acclaimed album Naked to the World. That album contained the hit "Ooo La La La," which reached the top of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and remains her only #1 single on that chart to date.
Marie released Ivory in the fall of 1990. Despite the success of the first two singles, "Here's Looking at You" (#11 R&B) and "If I Were a Bell" (#8 R&B), Epic Records was not totally pleased with sales of the album, so Marie and her label mutually agreed to go their separate ways.
Mid 90s Hiatus: Passion Play and Black Rain
During the 1990s, Marie's classic R&B, soul and funk records were either sampled by hip-hop artists or covered by R&B divas. Marie herself is regarded as something of a pioneer in helping to bring hip-hop to the mainstream by becoming one of the first and only artists of her time to rap one of her singles—the aforementioned "Square Biz." In the hip-hop portion of that song, she mentions some of her inspirations: Sarah Vaughn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, and Nikki Giovanni, "just to name a few," as she said. In 1996, The Fugees paid tribute to her by interpolating the chorus of her 1988 hit "Ooo, La, La, La" on their own "Fu-Gee-La," which was a huge hit.
In the fall of 1994, Marie released Passion Play on her own independent label, Sarai. Lacking the backing of a major label, this album sold less well than her earlier work, but was well received by fans.
Subsequently Marie devoted most of her time to raising her daughter Alia Rose (who has since adopted the name Rose Le Beau and is pursuing her own singing career). During the late 1990s, she made appearances (as herself) on the TV sitcoms The Steve Harvey Show and The Parkers. She also began work on a new album, entitled Black Rain. She was unable to secure a major label deal for this, and did not want to put it out on her own Sarai label in light of the modest sales of Passion Play. However, a version pressed for promotional purposes was widely bootlegged amongst fans. This contained the tracks: "The Mackin Game", "I'll Take the Pressure", "Baby I'm Your Fiend", "My Body's Hungry", "Ecstasy", "I'm On Fire", "Watcha Got 4 Me", "Black Rain", "1999", "Butterflies", "Spanish Harlem", "Blackberry Playa", "The Perfect Feeling" and "Rainbow Outro". Some of these tracks have resurfaced on the later albums La Doña, Sapphire and Congo Square, in some cases (e.g. "The Mackin Game") in significantly reworked versions. Although there have been rumours of other tracks recorded during the Black Rain sessions, including one called "Underneath the Covers" and another (allegedly a duet with Rick James) entitled "Pretty Tony", these would appear to be apocryphal.
2004-2006: La Doña and Sapphire
After a 14-year sabbatical from the national spotlight, Marie returned to her musical career by signing with the Classics sub-label of the successful hip-hop label Cash Money Records, and she released her comeback album, La Doña, in 2004, and follow up Sapphire, in 2006. La Doña became a gold-certified success (and the highest-charting album of her career, peaking at #6 on the Billboard 200 chart) on the basis of the Al Green-sampled "I'm Still In Love" (#23 R&B, #70 Pop) and a duet with the late Gerald Levert, "A Rose by Any Other Name." Marie was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for "Still in Love." Marie quickly followed this success with the release of Sapphire in 2006. While sales were not as great this time around (the album peaked at #24 on the Pop Chart), the release did give Marie yet another R&B Top-40 hit, "Ooh Wee" (#32); it also reunited her (on "God Has Created" and "Cruise Control") with Smokey Robinson, the early Motown mentor whose style she had emulated on early hits such as "Young Love." Marie parted ways with Ca$h Money records after the release of Sapphire.
2009-present: Congo Square
On September 19, 2008, Teena performed in concert at BB King's restaurant in NYC. Marie took this time to play a couple of finished tracks from her upcoming album, Congo Square, and she received a positive response from the crowd. Congo Square was released on June 9, 2009 on the Stax Records/Concord Music label. She has described the album as "personal and spiritual" and indicated that it is more jazz-influenced than most of her previous work. "Can't Last a Day", a duet with Faith Evans, leaked to the internet in March 2009. Teena Marie says of Evans, "It was after I had recorded the song (Can't Last a Day) I got the idea to put Faith on it. I’ve always loved Faith and her vocal style. She reminds me of me. Her correlation with Biggie — having a career with him and without him — reminds me of me and Rick (Rick James). I feel like she’s a younger me. Of the younger ladies, she’s the one I love most.” The album proved another success, reaching the Top 20 on Billboard's Top 200, and giving Teena Marie yet another Top 10 R&B chart entry. In 2023 she posthumously received a Grammy award for a sample credit on Cuff It by Beyoncé, but for unknown reasons the credit was removed so her Grammy was revoked.
Early Life
Marie was born in Santa Monica, California. She is of Belgian, Portuguese, Irish, Italian, and Native American ancestry. Marie grew up in Oakwood, a neighborhood in West Los Angeles. As a child, she had an acting role on The Beverly Hillbillies, credited as Tina Marie Brockert. She also sang at the wedding of actor Jerry Lewis's son when she was 10 years old.
Marie worked briefly at Pup 'n' Taco in the mid 1970s while attending Venice High School, where she joined the Summer Dance Production, and also had a role in the school's production of The Music Man.
1979–1981: Motown era
Marie signed with Motown Records in 1976, having gained an introduction to staff producer Hal Davis (best known for his work with The Jackson 5) and then auditioned, with her then band, for label boss Berry Gordy. She recorded unreleased material with a number of different producers, including Kerner and Wise, but was then spotted by Rick James, who effectively became her mentor. (Some of the earlier unreleased material has since been made available on compilation albums.) Her debut album release, Wild and Peaceful, was originally conceived as a project to be produced by James for Diana Ross, but James preferred to work with Marie. The album was at one point due to be credited to "Tina Tryson", but ultimately was put out under Marie's now-established stage name. It scored Marie her first top-ten R&B hit, "I'm Just a Sucker for Your Love" (#8 Black Singles Chart), which was a duet with James. Neither the album sleeve nor other packaging showed a picture of Marie, apparently on the theory that black audiences might be reluctant to buy an album by a white artist. In fact, many radio programmers wrongly assumed Marie was African American during the earliest months of her career. This myth was dispelled when, in 1980, her sophomore album, Lady T, sported a picture of her on the cover.
Marie's second album is noted for having production from Richard Rudolph (husband of R&B singer Minnie Riperton who passed a year earlier). Marie had asked Berry Gordy to contact Rudolph and secure his input as Rick James was unavailable and she did not feel quite ready yet to be sole producer of her own material. Rudolph intended for the song he penned, "Now That I Have You", to be sung by his wife, but was later given to Marie. Rudolph also co-composed the single "Behind The Groove", which reached number 21 on the black singles chart. The song was also included on the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the Fever 105 station. Another notable track, "Too Many Colors," featured Rudolph and Riperton's then 7-year-old daughter, Maya Rudolph, who became Teena Marie's god-daughter.
Also in 1980, Marie released her third LP, Irons in The Fire, in which she handled all writing and production herself, including the horn and rhythm arrangements of her band and all backing vocals. The single "I Need Your Lovin'" (#37 Pop, #9 Black Singles) brought Teena her first top 40 hit. That same year, Teena Marie appeared on James' hugely successful album Street Songs with the steamy duet "Fire and Desire." The two would perform the single at the 2004 BET Awards, which would be the two's last TV appearance with one another as Rick James passed later that year.
Marie continued her success with Motown in 1981 with the release of It Must Be Magic (#2 Black Albums Chart), her first gold record, which included her then biggest hit on R&B, "Square Biz" (#3 Black Singles). Other notable tracks include "Portuguese Love" (featuring a brief, uncredited cameo by James, #54 Black Singles), the title track "It Must be Magic" (#30 Black Singles), and album only track "Yes Indeed" which Marie cites as a personal favorite.
In 1982, Marie got into a heated legal battle with Motown records over her contract and disagreements on releasing her new material. The shuffle resulted in "The Brockert Initiative", which makes it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist. The artist would then be able to sign and release with another label instead of being held back by an unsupportive one. Teena Marie commented on the law in an LA Times article, saying, "It wasn't something I set out to do. I just wanted to get away from Motown and have a good life. But it helped a lot of people, like Luther Vandross and the Mary Jane Girls and a lot of different artists, to be able to get out of their contracts".
1983-1991: Epic Records
After leaving Motown in 1982, Marie signed with Epic Records in 1983 and released the concept album Robbery, which featured the hit "Fix It" (#21 R&B), as well as "track artist=Teena Marie]Shadow Boxing" and "Casanova Brown." The latter was one of a number of tracks Marie would write over the years about her real-life romance with one-time mentor Rick James. The relationship had ended by that point, but the two would continue a sometimes tempestuous friendship until James's death. In 1984, Marie released her biggest-selling album, Starchild. It yielded the singles "Lovergirl" and "Out on a Limb," the former of which became Marie's highest-peaking single to date on the US pop charts, peaking at #4, while peaking at #9 on the R&B charts. "Out on a Limb" was not as successful as "Lovergirl" on the R&B Charts, however, peaking only at #56. Also in 1985, "14k" (R&B #87) was featured on the soundtrack of the film Goonies.
In 1986, Marie released a rock-music-influenced concept album titled Emerald City. It was controversial with her established fan base and not as successful as its predecessors. She also recorded another rock-influenced track, "Lead Me On", co-produced by Georgio Moroder, for the soundtrack of the box office hit film Top Gun that year. In 1988, however, she returned to her R&B and funk roots releasing the critically-acclaimed album Naked to the World. That album contained the hit "Ooo La La La," which reached the top of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and remains her only #1 single on that chart to date.
Marie released Ivory in the fall of 1990. Despite the success of the first two singles, "Here's Looking at You" (#11 R&B) and "If I Were a Bell" (#8 R&B), Epic Records was not totally pleased with sales of the album, so Marie and her label mutually agreed to go their separate ways.
Mid 90s Hiatus: Passion Play and Black Rain
During the 1990s, Marie's classic R&B, soul and funk records were either sampled by hip-hop artists or covered by R&B divas. Marie herself is regarded as something of a pioneer in helping to bring hip-hop to the mainstream by becoming one of the first and only artists of her time to rap one of her singles—the aforementioned "Square Biz." In the hip-hop portion of that song, she mentions some of her inspirations: Sarah Vaughn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, and Nikki Giovanni, "just to name a few," as she said. In 1996, The Fugees paid tribute to her by interpolating the chorus of her 1988 hit "Ooo, La, La, La" on their own "Fu-Gee-La," which was a huge hit.
In the fall of 1994, Marie released Passion Play on her own independent label, Sarai. Lacking the backing of a major label, this album sold less well than her earlier work, but was well received by fans.
Subsequently Marie devoted most of her time to raising her daughter Alia Rose (who has since adopted the name Rose Le Beau and is pursuing her own singing career). During the late 1990s, she made appearances (as herself) on the TV sitcoms The Steve Harvey Show and The Parkers. She also began work on a new album, entitled Black Rain. She was unable to secure a major label deal for this, and did not want to put it out on her own Sarai label in light of the modest sales of Passion Play. However, a version pressed for promotional purposes was widely bootlegged amongst fans. This contained the tracks: "The Mackin Game", "I'll Take the Pressure", "Baby I'm Your Fiend", "My Body's Hungry", "Ecstasy", "I'm On Fire", "Watcha Got 4 Me", "Black Rain", "1999", "Butterflies", "Spanish Harlem", "Blackberry Playa", "The Perfect Feeling" and "Rainbow Outro". Some of these tracks have resurfaced on the later albums La Doña, Sapphire and Congo Square, in some cases (e.g. "The Mackin Game") in significantly reworked versions. Although there have been rumours of other tracks recorded during the Black Rain sessions, including one called "Underneath the Covers" and another (allegedly a duet with Rick James) entitled "Pretty Tony", these would appear to be apocryphal.
2004-2006: La Doña and Sapphire
After a 14-year sabbatical from the national spotlight, Marie returned to her musical career by signing with the Classics sub-label of the successful hip-hop label Cash Money Records, and she released her comeback album, La Doña, in 2004, and follow up Sapphire, in 2006. La Doña became a gold-certified success (and the highest-charting album of her career, peaking at #6 on the Billboard 200 chart) on the basis of the Al Green-sampled "I'm Still In Love" (#23 R&B, #70 Pop) and a duet with the late Gerald Levert, "A Rose by Any Other Name." Marie was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for "Still in Love." Marie quickly followed this success with the release of Sapphire in 2006. While sales were not as great this time around (the album peaked at #24 on the Pop Chart), the release did give Marie yet another R&B Top-40 hit, "Ooh Wee" (#32); it also reunited her (on "God Has Created" and "Cruise Control") with Smokey Robinson, the early Motown mentor whose style she had emulated on early hits such as "Young Love." Marie parted ways with Ca$h Money records after the release of Sapphire.
2009-present: Congo Square
On September 19, 2008, Teena performed in concert at BB King's restaurant in NYC. Marie took this time to play a couple of finished tracks from her upcoming album, Congo Square, and she received a positive response from the crowd. Congo Square was released on June 9, 2009 on the Stax Records/Concord Music label. She has described the album as "personal and spiritual" and indicated that it is more jazz-influenced than most of her previous work. "Can't Last a Day", a duet with Faith Evans, leaked to the internet in March 2009. Teena Marie says of Evans, "It was after I had recorded the song (Can't Last a Day) I got the idea to put Faith on it. I’ve always loved Faith and her vocal style. She reminds me of me. Her correlation with Biggie — having a career with him and without him — reminds me of me and Rick (Rick James). I feel like she’s a younger me. Of the younger ladies, she’s the one I love most.” The album proved another success, reaching the Top 20 on Billboard's Top 200, and giving Teena Marie yet another Top 10 R&B chart entry. In 2023 she posthumously received a Grammy award for a sample credit on Cuff It by Beyoncé, but for unknown reasons the credit was removed so her Grammy was revoked.
More Love
Teena Marie Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'More Love' by these artists:
Al Jarreau I should have listened more and listened well I should have…
Alerta For the people (for people) Laugh people, our people Jah, …
Ama Dancing and glancing Baby got back Touching her hands Get la…
B-Flat I wanna know what you been thinking I'm lookin' forward to…
Bataan Joe Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Cagle & Nash I just love you more, I just love you more, I just…
Carnes Kim Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Click-Clack Money bag, max contract, yeah I want that Behind the back,…
D.Roots Dancing and glancing Baby got back Touching her hands Get la…
DENM Wake up in the morning they be knocking at my…
Denny Greene Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Dixie Chicks I'm so close to you baby But I'm so far away There's…
Doug Stone When we met, I told her I'd give her the…
Drake & Sade I couldn't love you more If time was running out I couldn't…
DVRK We need more love We need more love We need more love We…
El-A-Kru More life, more love More life, more love More life, more lo…
Eric Donaldson More love let it fall all down like rain More love let it…
Feargal Sharkey I don't wanna talk about it I don't even wanna hear…
Feduk Кажется, я где-то тебя видел Мне снова кажется везде твоя ул…
Franziska More love for your brothers and your sisters More love for…
G.C. Cameron Regardless of what you did I was there until the…
Henry & Louis After night, you've gone away There's nothing I can do Baby,…
Iya Terra Said look at the world See how it is turning And look…
J Lord Hmm hmm No yeah hey baby no No yeah hey baby no Yeah…
James Carr She's got more love In her lover fingers Than you've got In …
Joe Bataan Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
JoJo Romero More love Ooh! Ooh! Girl well But you know Well More love i…
Judy Bailey More life more love more peace when I give it…
Kekoa Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Kekoa & Maila Gibson Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Khamelien Take a look into the world and can we see…
Kim Carnes Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
KRS-One Todo por el interés Yeah Ya no quiero más estrés Nunca he si…
Little Voice Cast Opened up my eyes To daylight In my new city Where maybe I…
Luciano Pegue-me Aqueça-me em seu corpo, amor Quero te amar como a p…
Luciano & Elijah Prophet Ja, ja Ba-Baby, kein Hate, no more Hol' dir Chanel-Bags, be…
Mica Paris Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Miracles Ooh, ooh, ooh Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love…
Miracles [The] Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
Moderat Breathing life into dead trees The first to stand alone The …
Mohawk & The Kid Nightmares I'm getting a lot of Nightmares Since you've been…
mr. mel You're SABS approved girl Your standard is high The epitome …
N.I.A The bed is a shipwreck We broke its bow We stripped its…
Nhojj Have you ever paused to look into her eyes Have you…
Queen Naija Don't you ever try to get away, yeah (Yeah) Yeah (yeah) Lear…
Ray Greene If I ever leave you You can say I told you…
Rebelution Because you're living an illusion I can't wait till it hits…
Robert Glasper & KING Baby there's more ooh Baby there's more ooh More I said baby…
Sara Bareilles Opened up my eyes To daylight In my new city Where maybe I…
Sara Lugo Gimme me your love Gimme more love you and I Gimme me your…
Sedona (Did you believe it would last forever?) (Couldn't you …
Sherwin Gardner tree adams - back to the water (ost. swalter) Just like…
Singing Melody Haa ha ha ha ha ha Oh yes uhhhhhh Vearse 1) gat…
Smokey Robinson Ooh, ooh, ooh Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love…
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Let it be soon, don't hesitate Make it now, don't wait Open…
Smokey Robinson / The Miracles Ooh, ooh, ooh Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love…
Steve Pettit Evangelistic Team O Lord, your love is so vast and so wide, Freely…
Stone Doug When we met, I told her I'd give her the…
The 5th Dimension Ooh, ooh, ooh. Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love,…
The Busters MORE LOVE Watch the zombies come out at night Rotten brains…
The Chicks I'm so close to you baby But I'm so far away Theres…
The Miracles Ooh, ooh, ooh Let it be soon, don't hesitate, make love…
Tim O'Brien I'm so close to you baby but I'm so far…
U-Roy featuring Sister Audrey 从来就不知道她究竟是几点起床的 反正早餐都会出现在我起床三十分钟的时候 不记得做过什么事情教她高兴的忘记烦忧 但是每次拿…
unknown.beat I would like to shout it from the highest mountain To…
Victor Wooten We need to love each other our aidren Hey Victa man Give…
Wale feat. Shawn Stockman of Boyz ll Men & Sauce of Backyard Band Love is on your side Let your heart be your guide…
Wheelup When the last time you gave w/o looking for return When…
Zion Hola Dime si tu anda sola Que por que tanto me ignoras Te…
Al Jarreau I should have listened more and listened well I should have…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Teena Marie:
"Lovergirl" Coffee,tea or me baby, touche ole My opening line might be…
14k Well I've been running with the night Trying to find the…
365 I've got a head rush, hush You're heaven's dial, a crush I…
A Rose by Any Other Name (feat. Gerald Levert) Lately all the flowers seem to be so…
A.P.B Baby I'm not gonna let you slip through my fingers This…
A.P.B. Baby I'm not gonna let you slip through my fingers This…
Aladdin's Lamp We were rich and we were poor Two children playing grown-up…
Alibi Photographic memories Scanners of our love affair Like we we…
Álibi Photographic memories, scanners on our love affair Like we w…
Ask Your Momma Society Who's to say who loves you And on the colors of…
Baby I Love You Baby I Love You (Baby..I Love You Baby) Baby I Love…
Baby I'm Your Fiend Yeah, Everybody got one huh And you're mine Baby I'm your f…
Batucada Suite Mary's into new things got a brand new bag Superficial livin…
Batucadia Suite Mary's into new things got a brand new bag Superficial livi…
Beautiful Today I watched your diamonds Sparkling in the sand God wh…
Behind The Groove Hey, baby Oh, yeah Let me take you to Xanadu Where…
Black Rain What Michelle say? Do you love her as much as you…
Breakfast In Bed I guess that you, got next to me Honey you were…
Call Me Why do you play this sly game Why do you freak-I…
Can It Be Love Looking out my window today, Seeing nothing but your sweet f…
Can You Do It He had brunette hair with blond streaks A different kind of…
Can't Last A Day Teena: If the sun in the sky disappeared from view If the…
Carte Blanche You can take possession of my body I’ll give you the…
Casanova Brown My baby's fine He always keeps me guessing But never keeps…
Cassanova Brown My baby's fine He always keeps me guessing But never keeps m…
Chains Oh, I'm a prisoner in cell block why, oh you I…
Climb The Walls Here we go again On the smooth tip You and I Once upon…
Congo Square Sundays was better than other days Mondays through Saturdays…
Crocodile Tears Tears on your pillow falling down around you everywhere What…
Cupid Is A Real Straight Shooter I might as well be wearing rose-colored glasses Looking at …
De Ja Vu I'm young and I'm old I'm rich and I'm poor I feel…
Dear Lover If I could paint a picture Of the love I have…
Definition Of Down Oh, I love the rain Beating on my window pane I give…
Deja Vu I'm young and I'm old I'm rich and I'm poor I feel…
Déjŕ Vu I'm young and I'm old I'm rich and I'm poor I feel…
Don't Look Back If it's love that you're running from, there's no hiding…
Ear Candy 101 Talkin? to ya (Class is in session) Talkin?, talkin? sweet …
Emerald City It was the kinda set you read about in storybooks Where…
Every Little Bit Hurts Every little bit hurts Every little bit hurts Every night I …
Fire and Desire Wow It's really good to see you again, baby And I must…
First Class Love I can give you all you need A love that's guaranteed…
Fix It Love is just a one-way street If I'm lost without you Love…
Give Me Your Love All the lady max that’s hustling on my track say:…
God Has Created (Teena Marie:) With a child's heart I have seen that dreams…
Harlem Blues Uptown Harlem Brown Give me a Blues Yeah, that's what I'm ta…
Help Youngblood Get To the Freaky Party Two weeks ago last Sunday, I was on my way…
Here's Looking At You Who's that peepin' in my window Uh-uh Oh Oh Yo', baby doll …
High Yellow Girl Everybody says that you're so beautiful From the inside to …
Hit Me Where I Live On the Venus rocks Yeah, huh Just me, the master And my b…
Honey Call Hello, this is me Yeah, I'm your bee charmer, Lady Tee But…
How Can You Resist It He had brunette hair with blond streaks A different kind of…
Hypnotized Hypnotized, you got me hypnotized All it took was one littl…
Hypnotized Prelude Lady Tee sing one oldie for me Croon me a tune Sweet…
I Can't Love Anymore If I knew that long ago I would feel this…
I Got You I feel good I knew that I would now So good So good I've…
I Love Him Too (Tee:) Aw naw, I don't believe this There's a new girl in…
I NEED YOU LOVIN I NEED YOUR LOVIN' Tenna Marie Love's fever comin on strong…
I Need Your Lovin' Ooh Love's fever comin' on strong I don't want the fire wit…
I Need Your Loving I NEED YOUR LOVIN' Tenna Marie Love's fever comin on strong…
I Need Your Lovin´ Ooh Love's fever comin' on strong I don't want the fire …
I Still In Love Yeah, yeah, okay I know you all hearing that beautiful voice…
I'm A Sucker For Your Love I'm just a (Well, alright you freaks, give it) I'm just a…
I'm On Fire Turn down the lights Baby come close I wanna talk to you …
I'm Still In Love Yeah, yeah, okay I know you all hearing that beautiful voice…
I'm Wishing On A Star I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing…
If I Were A Bell Early morning whispers to me I was taken unaware I remember …
Irons In The Fire People say I've got my hands in too many things Keeping…
It Must Be Magic He (You are under my power It is the power of love) Oh,…
Ivory How supple your lips The kind that were meant for kissing I…
Jammin Baby, I was just a young girl When you came on…
Jammin' Baby, I was just a young girl When you came on…
Just Us Two Hey, baby What you feel like doin' Just me, just you Just us…
La Doña Intro (Knock on door) (Kid:) Ricardo they're knocking at the d…
Latin Lullaby Give me a kiss and I'll savor this night Just as…
Lead Me On Turn around to see you In a crowded place I watch for…
Life Is So Hard This song is a dedication to those strugglin' and livin'…
Light Last night Jesus shined a heavenly light Through my window i…
Lips To Find You So you say you're leaving for the Southern tip of…
Lonely Desire Hey you, back there! Crying out in dark despair Your spark-l…
Love Is A Gangsta Love brought you in this world, baby Love is gonna take…
Love Me Down Easy Love me down easy and then say good-bye Love me down…
Love Starved I was looking for love baby in all the wrong…
Lover Girl Coffee,tea or me baby, touche ole My opening line might be…
Lover's Lane Howrd Hewett: No NOoooooo HOOOooooooooooooo Teena Marie: Com…
Lovergirl Coffee,tea or me baby, touche ole My opening line might be…
Lover’s Lane Howrd Hewett: No NOoooooo HOOOooooooooooooo Teena Marie: Com…
Luv Letter Music is meant to inspire To elevate you and to take…
Main Squeeze Hey you, where are you going with that suitcase Naw, Put…
Makavelli Never Lied Thug life Makavelli Thug life Twenty-two dubs up in the…
Make You Surrey Morning whispers to me unaware I awake to fingers floating s…
Maria Bonita There is a rose, my rose is black (Am La Rosa) There…
Marry Me Epa Un, dos, tres Un pasito pa'lante, María Un, dos, tr…
Midnight Magnet Late night interaction on the telephone You called me up to…
Milk N’ Honey Mama Rose got da flavour, Lady T got da flavour,…
Miracles Need Wings To Fly Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, yeah, Last night I…
Mr. Icecream Smooth talking ladies' man The time is come for me to…
My Body's Hungry I know you gotta go Just come on over here Let me…
My Dear Mr Gaye Come inside from the rain Let me make love to you…
My Dear Mr. Gaye Come inside from the rain Let me make love to you…
Naked To The World Hello stranger, don't say a word 'Cause we haven't got much…
Need Your lovin' Rendered Ooh Love's fever comin' on strong I don't want the fire wit…
Now That I Have You Am I dreaming, are you real Can this be heaven that…
Off the Chain West side girl is dipping Off the chain, it's sickening Lady…
Once Is Not Enough The first time that I met you, you drove 85…
Ooh la La Every time you come around I feel my world starts turning…
Ooh La La La Every time you come around I feel my world starts turning…
Ooh Wee Oooh If you feeling what you see now Oooh And you like to…
Ooo La La La Every time you come around I feel my world starts turning…
Opus III I remember your songs And they were timeless, Minnie The per…
Opus III: The Second Movement I remember your songs And they were timeless Minnie The pe…
Out On A Limb Tender was the kiss when you held me captive in…
Parking Music Baby slow down - park the car turn the key…
Passion Play I've loved you from a distance A mighty long long time…
Playboy Did he catch my eye Well, is the sun up in…
Portuguese Love Hey, baby, how you doin' Wow, huh, it's really been a…
Pretty Man Pretty man you've got the world in the Palm of your…
Rare Breed This one is for all the ladies This one is for…
Recycle Hate to Love (Levi:) Now here comes Lady Levi 'longside Lady Tee, the gr…
Revelations 3:8 Introduction I woke up, this morning, thinking of you The silence spoke…
Revolution Penny Lane, the pipers gone I saw the photogrpah Neither you…
Robbery Standing on the corner of rhythm and blues A Valentino smile…
Romantica Romantica, I'll always be so hopelessly romantic, Just l…
Shadow Boxing Loving, fresh as the morning dew Sunrise talks just to you N…
Shangri-La Testing Your love takes me Higher than I've ever been befo…
Since Day One Contrary to popular opinion I'm extremely shy I'm not the ki…
Sleeping With The Enemy Creep, creep, creep, Creep, creep, creep, Baby's got a…
Slow Grind Everybody knows I've had my share of lovers baby Let's let…
Smooth Tip This is a story about 2 Lovers Who went their separate…
Snap Your Finger Saw you there, tall and dark, handsome too Put it all…
Snap Your Fingers Saw you there, tall and dark, handsome too Put it all…
Soldier Boy Soldiers... I'm sending this one out to all the men and…
Someday We'll All Be Free Hang onto the world as it spins around Don't let the…
Square Biz Hee... Everybody get up Flash back, who's that dancin' to t…
Starchild Gazing into Outer Space My telescope sent me to another plan…
Still In Love Tell me, baby, how long has it been Here you come…
Stop the World Late last night I couldn't stop the tears from falling Seems…
Sucker 4 Love I'm just a sucker for your love, sucker for love I'm…
Sunny Skies Sunny Skies It's funny you and I were both so blue Do…
Surrealistic Pillow There's a message in my madness, coming out to you The…
Sweet On You My sugar doesn't know I'm sweet on you He wouldn't understa…
Sweet Tooth Please don't tear me with your sugar pops Look at you…
The Air I Breathe Somewhere cross the galaxies Your hand reached out to shelt…
The Ball Tender I remember, how you loved to turn me on Sweetly…
The Ballad Of Cradle Rob And Me You are the seed and the grain of every harvest Planted…
The Long Play Good evening This W-H-E-V-N My co-letters on the Love Prog…
The Mackin' Game What's my name Say my name (Lady to the T) Ain't nothing …
The Once And Future Dream If I had a castle by the ocean A crown of…
The Perfect Feeling Two spirits passing through time How did yours connect with …
The Red Zone War is all around us Fighting everywhere Poverty, destructio…
The Rose N' Thorn Still my heart the dawn is filled with tears I never…
The Sugar Shack Into the cave where lust and love became one Where the…
The Sugar Shack Prelude Into the cave where lust and love became one Where the…
The Way You Love Me Got a love and it be genuine, If I let…
Too Many Colors Too many colors, too many colors I can't blend One million…
Trick Bag Here we go, ugh Personality walk, personality talk Personali…
Tune In Tomorrow What do we do now, honey Now that we know how…
Warm as Mommas Oven It's hot in here Ooh Come on in Let's go chill What's that y…
We've Got To Stop You know, baby We go back a long way But it hasn't…
Where's California After I left you I found I can't be so far And…
Why Did I Fall In Love With You Some say you're shy but I think differently It's really jus…
Why Did I Have To Fall In Love With You Some say you're shy, but I think differently It's really ju…
Wild Horses Gee whiz but you look so good to me And it's…
Wishing on a Star I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing…
Work It It's not the way that you comb your hair to…
Yes Indeed You are the seed and the grain of every harvest Planted…
You And I I feel good I knew that I would now So good So good I've…
You Baby Boy you dropped a bomb on me a long, long…
You Blow Me Away You will always be my King And I will always be…
You Make Love Like Springtime Morning whispers to me unaware I awake to fingers floating s…
You So Heavy Rescue me and my precious cargo We have short time to…
You're All The Boogie I Need You make me feel like dancin' all night long. You flip…
Young Girl In Love Well you sat back, tipped your hat, and gave me…
Young Love Oh, oh, oh, oh, Yeah, yeah I remember back in school When I…
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MrJajabanks21
Shes on my alltime top 5 female vocalist/ singers of all time...miss her 😟
Lala Shelala
Just out of curiosity, who are your top five singers?
A Queen.
No sir. She is my top 1 favorite!
BronzeVenus
Love this track. Her vocal is ace. Shows that she was "Lady T" from day one.
thomas p
I didnt think it was possible to improve on something Smokey sang but Teena's rendition is great too.
Aldric Ramirez
Wow!! Teena Marie was so multitalented, every song on 13 albums was worth listening to, what a musical gift from GOD. Thank you Ivory Queen for not just your albums but the amazing concerts always the lady of evening and always the grand finally. You were the best live act in musical history RIP💝💝
Frances A Formiller
I like this version of More Love as much as I like the original one by Smokey Robinson. That is saying a lot!
MikaMikazzz
Damn she’s huge amongst RnB and soul superstars ... I predict she will be more and more recognized and known. She deserves so much. That groove is out of this world!
iolairesino
soulful voice so very talented
Danniella Whittick
Can't believe that this song has always existed. I never thought Teena could ever sing on this kinda of R&B old soul groove song. No wonder they thought she was black. I don't I will be stop listening to this song for now.
I'm from Jamaica and this has a old reggae song to it. This woman is soooo damn versatile. Geeeezzzz