To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (3150 ) 1/19/2012 4:33:28 AM From: LTK007 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3244 i just went to utube and was stunned to discover teena marie died in 2010. "" I'm Just a Sucker for Your Love " (#8 Black Singles Chart), [8] a duet with James. Neither the album nor its packaging had her picture on it, and many radio programmers assumed she was African-American during the earliest months of her career. [8] This myth was disproved when she performed her debut hit with James on Soul Train in 1979, becoming the show's first white female guest (she would appear on the show eight more times, more than any other white act).>> Here is a RIP video of Teena Marie, with her singing "Deja Vu:i have been here BEFORE" youtube.com Her death was set up, again, by a random event---damned a large picture in a hotel fell on her head--she had brain damage that left here epilepsy. Damned life can be so blindly cruel--just random freak events. What happened to Curtis Mayfield was a horror freak accident(Stage Light Tower crashed down on him), that made him a quad until his death. What a man he was, he never felt sorry for himself nor lost his faith, and actually recorded an album, in which he could only sing one verse at a time,while singing on his back. i have got to get that album.Max. Death and memorials"Around 2004, Teena Marie lay sleeping in a hotel room when a large picture frame fell and struck her in the head. The blow caused a serious concussion that would result in momentary seizures for the rest of her life. She had suffered a Grand mal seizure just one month before her death. [ 23] edit:(could a grand mal seizure have caused a heart stoppage? Max) On the afternoon of December 26, 2010, Teena Marie was found unresponsive by daughter Alia Rose at her home in Pasadena, California. [24] [25] On December 30, 2010, an autopsy was performed by the Los Angeles County coroner, who found no signs of apparent trauma or discernible cause of death and [25] concluded she had died from natural causes. [ 25] [26] (edit: how do they list death like this on a death certificate "Sudden Death with NO dicernible cause"? Max) A memorial service was held at Forest Lawn Cemetery on January 10, 2011. Among the luminaries who attended were Smokey Robinson , LisaRaye , Sinbad , Tichina Arnold , Stevie Wonder , Shanice Wilson and Tata Vega ".