‘California Soul’ Singer Marlena Shaw Dead at 81

Marlena Shaw — greatest identified for her music “California Soul” — has died … in response to her daughter.

The legendary jazz and R&B singer handed away Friday afternoon Marlena’s daughter Marla mentioned in a video she posted to Fb. She didn’t give a reason behind dying.

MS’ most well-known monitor is “California Soul” — a music initially carried out by The Messengers, however one she coated and made well-known … that is had a long-lasting impression on hip hop and standard tradition at giant.

A number of of the hit properties that featured the songs … “The Italian Job,” “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “All Things Must Pass,” “Pixie,” the TV collection “Bad Sisters” and online game “Grand Theft Auto V.”

It is also taken on a second life on the planet of hip hop sampling … Gang Starr, The Recreation and Jay Rock, Elzhi, Quasimoto, Jay Electronica, Laika and Xzhibit are just some of the celebs who’ve sampled the music in a single kind or one other.

“California Soul” is her most enduring basic, however Shaw had quite a lot of different hits too together with “Feel Like Making Love,” “Loving You Was Like A Party,” “Go Away Little Boy” and “Is You or Is You Ain’t My Baby” — one other music she coated that bagged her a Grammy nod again in 1990.

Marlena was 81.