In Focus: Teena Marie

California born singer Teena Marie was an early protege of funk legend Rick James. One of the few white artists who regularly found success on US R&B charts in the 1980s, her race was ambiguous at the beginning of her career, with her image left off of debut album - “I still have people coming up to me 26 years later and looking at me and all of a sudden going, ‘I didn’t know you were white!", Marie said in an interview in 2006. This In Focus is an hour long ride through the soul, funk & R&B of Teena Marie, mixed by LDLDN This