Naked To The World Here's Looking At You The Sugar Shack Prelude The Sugar Shack If I Were A Bell Just Us Two Icecream Ivory Atone Poem Snap Your Fingers How Can You Resist It Since Day One Miracles Need Wings To Fly The Red Zone Behind The Groove Now That I Have You Warm As Mommas Oven Main Squeeze Wild Horses Smooth Tip Hypnotized Prelude Hypnotized Parking Music Sweet On You Slow Grind Climb The Walls Breakfast In Bed Passion Play Pretty Man The Air I Breathe Ooo La La La 12'' Version Fix It 12'' Version Cassanova Brown Aladdin's Lamp La Dona Honey Call Baby I'm Your Friend My Body's Hungry Off The Chain Featuring Baby Makavelli Never Lied Revelations Introduction Featuring Common The Mackin' Game Featuring M.
I Love Him Too Hit Me Where I Live High Yellow Girl Black Rain I'm On Fire Every Little Bit Hurts Feat. Rick James God Has Created Feat. Smokey Robinson Cruise Control Feat. Baby Who's Is It Feat. Kurupt Make It Hot Ooo Wee Feat. Sleeping With The Enemy Love Is A Gangsta Ladies Choice Feat. Queen And Gail Gotti Somebody Just Like You Feat. Gerald Albright You Blow Me Away Simmer Down Feat. Lady Levi Romantica The Way You Love Me Ecstasy Resilient Sapphire The Pressure Feat.
Mc Lyte Can't Last A Day Feat. Faith Evans Baby I Love You Ear Candy Lover's Lane Feat. Howard Hewett Marry Me You Baby Milk N' Honey Feat. Rose Lebeau What U Got 4 Me Rovleta's Jass Congo Square Feat. George Duke Harlem Blues In , Brockert as the lead singer of a band she had assembled, which included long-time friend Mickey Boyce gained an introduction to Motown Records staff producer Hal Davis best known for his work with Brenda Holloway and the Jackson 5.
It led to an audition for a film about orphans that was being developed by Motown. The project was shelved, but label boss Berry Gordy, impressed with her singing but having no need for a musical group, decided to sign her as a solo act. Tina recorded unreleased material with a number of different producers over the next few years, before being spotted by labelmate Rick James, who was immediately impressed with her sound.
Some of Tina's earlier, unreleased material has since been made available on the compilation album First Class Love: Rare Tee. At the time, James, already established as a successful recording artist, was on tap to produce for Diana Ross but changed his mind and decided to work with Brockert, instead.
The result was her debut album release, Wild and Peaceful. The album was, at one point, due to be credited to 'Teena Tryson', but ultimately was put out under 'Teena Marie', the name by which she would be known throughout her remaining career. Neither the album nor its packaging had her picture on it, and many radio programmers assumed she was black during the earliest months of her career.
She would appear on the show eight more times, more than any other white act. Teena Marie had asked Berry Gordy to contact Rudolph and secure his input, as Rick James was unavailable, and she felt unprepared to be sole producer of her own material. Also in , Teena Marie released her third LP, Irons in the Fire , for which she handled most of the writing and production herself, an achievement considered rare at the time for a female artist. In an interview, Teena Marie said she had a fever at the time yet managed to record her vocals in one take.
After the session, she was driven to a hospital. The two would perform the single at the BET Awards, which would be their last TV appearance with one another, as James died later that year. Other notable tracks include 'Portuguese Love' featuring a brief, uncredited cameo by James, No. In , Teena Marie got into a heated legal battle with Motown Records over her contract and disagreements about releasing her new material.
In such instances, artists are able to sign and release with another label instead of being held back by an unsupportive one. 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. Contacted by Epic Records in the fall of , after expressing dismay over her Motown contract, Teena Marie signed a worldwide deal with the Columbia Records subsidiary that also allowed her to establish her own publishing company, Midnight Magnet.
The relationship had ended by that point, but the two continued a sometimes tempestuous friendship until James' death, in August In , Teena Marie released her biggest-selling album, Starchild.
It yielded her biggest hit 'Lovergirl', which peaked at No. Billboard Hot chart in March [19] and at No. In , Teena 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 the rock-influenced track, 'Lead Me On', co-produced by Giorgio Moroder, for the soundtrack of the box office hit film Top Gun Teena Marie herself is regarded as something of a pioneer in helping to bring hip-hop to the mainstream by becoming one of the first artists of her time to rap one of her singles—the aforementioned 'Square Biz'.
Subsequently, Teena Marie devoted most of her time to raising her daughter Alia Rose [21] who has since adopted the stage name 'Rose Le Beau' and is pursuing her own singing career.
During the late s, she began working on a new album, titled Black Rain. She was unable to secure a major label deal for the album 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 among fans. While sales were not as strong this time the album peaked at No. On September 19, , Teena Marie performed in concert at B. She 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. Teena Marie has described the album as 'personal and spiritual', and indicated that it was more jazz-influenced than most of her previous work.
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