Long before she became an '80s funk-pop infanta, or Rick James' protégé and lover, Teena Marie was a Motown-enamored schoolgirl in one of L.A.'s last historically black enclaves. The singer-songwriter ...

The Source Magazine remembers the life, voice, and legacy of Teena Marie fifteen years after her passing, honoring an artist whose impact on Black music and culture remains deeply felt and widely ...

LOS ANGELES - Teena Marie's last album, Congo Square, was titled after a historical meeting place for slaves in New Orleans, featured a tribute to Martin Luther King's widow and also song Black Cool, ...

*Bernadette Cooper, the founding member of the 80’s female R&B band, Klymaxx, once spoke about how rock star Lenny Kravitz wronged late singer Teena Marie at a time when she needed him the most. In a ...

Singer, songwriter and producer Rick James created a sound like no other in the 1970s and 80s, but his lifestyle, which was a non-stop party would cut his career short. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s ...