Teena also went to the emergency room where a standard rape kit was assembled, and later lost.

Laux was also criticized after the murder for his attitude — at one point Laux referred to Teena as " it ".

Tisdel also claimed that the film falsely portrayed that she continued the relationship with Teena after she discovered Teena was not anatomically male.

Maya Rudolph can also be heard in discussion with Teena Marie on the final track Too Many Colors ( Tee's Interlude ) of Teena's 1980 album Lady T.

James became noted not only as a hit maker on his own recordings but also produced successful recordings for the likes of Teena Marie, The Mary Jane Girls, The Temptations, Eddie Murphy and Smokey Robinson.

Muntz also named his daughter " Tee Vee ", although she normally went by " Teena " and, later, " Tee ".

Around the same time, audiences were struck by the soulfulness of Teena Marie, who exclusively wrote and performed R & B and funk, as well as Michael McDonald, who is also frequently described as a ' blue-eyed soul ' artist.

She has also pursued transgender roles, auditioning for the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry, and playing Cheryl Avery, a young transsexual woman in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " Fallacy ".

She also recorded with Rick James on his 1997 Urban Rhapsody album on the track " Never Say You Love Me ," which was originally written for Teena Marie.

" The Secret Garden " includes guest performances by soul vocalists Regina Belle, Patti LaBelle and Teena Marie ; the latter also heard on " Latin Lullaby.

Shanice performed " Congratulations " in the show as a tribute to Williams ; there also was a tribute to the late singer, Teena Marie.

Teena's family described him as being a tomboy since early childhood ; Teena began identifying as male during adolescence and dated a female student during this period.

In the summer of 1991, Teena began his first major relationship, with Heather.

After moving into the home of Lisa Lambert, Teena began dating his friend 19-year-old Lana Tisdel, and began associating with ex-convicts John L. Lotter ( born May 31, 1971 ) and Marvin Thomas " Tom " Nissen ( born October 22, 1971 ).

Nissen and Lotter learned of the report, and they began to search for Teena.

In July 1944, King Features Syndicate began running the comic strip " Teena ," created by cartoonist Hilda Terry, in which the trials and tribulations of a typical teenager's life were portrayed, and " Teena " ran in newspapers all over the world for 20 years.

James was extremely close with Teena Marie, whom he met in 1979 and began working with that same year.

She began a singing career at age fifteen as a backup vocalist for her cousin Teena Marie, whom her mother managed.

In the months nearing his high school graduation, Teena became unusually outgoing and was remembered by classmates as a " class clown ".

The second theme, " Hollywood Square Biz ", was a re-recording of the Teena Marie song " Square Biz ", originally written in 1981 and was used from 2002 to 2004.

Brandon Teena ( December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993 ) was an American trans man, a female to male transgender person, who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska.

His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was based on the documentary film The Brandon Teena Story.

Teena was born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska, the younger of two children to Patrick and JoAnn Brandon.

Teena and his older sister Tammy lived with their maternal grandmother in Lincoln, before they were reclaimed by their mother when Teena was three years old and Tammy was six years old.

On several occasions Teena claimed to be intersex though this assertion was later dispoved.

Teena and his sister attended St. Mary's Elementary School and Pius X High School in Lincoln, where Teena was remembered as being socially awkward.

Shortly after, Teena was first employed as a gas station attendant in an attempt to purchase a trailer home for himself and his girlfriend.

His mother, however, did not approve of the relationship, and convinced her daughter to follow Teena in order to know if the relationship was platonic or sexual.

In January 1992 Teena underwent a psychiatric evaluation, which concluded that Teena was suffering from a severe sexual identity crisis.

On December 19, 1993, Teena was arrested for forging checks ; Tisdel paid his bail.

Because Teena was in the female section of the jail, Tisdel learned that he was transgender.

When Tisdel later questioned Teena about his gender, he told her he was a hermaphrodite pursuing a sex change operation, and they continued dating.

During a Christmas Eve party, Nissen and Lotter grabbed Teena and forced him to remove his pants, proving to Tisdel that Teena was anatomically female.

Teena escaped from Nissen's bathroom by climbing out the window, and went to Tisdel's house.

The tracks are for the most part works from various real-life artists, such as Megadeth, Electric Light Orchestra, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, Toto, Blondie, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, David Lee Roth, INXS, Michael Jackson, Teena Marie, Rick James, Kate Bush, Bryan Adams, Go West, Luther Vandross, Kool & the Gang, A Flock of Seagulls, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Spandau Ballet, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Hashim, Corey Hart, Laura Branigan, REO Speedwagon, and Eumir Deodato.

Two months after his formal separation from Eleanor, Teena Rochfort-Smith suffered serious burns while burning correspondence in Goole and died in 1883.

The album was packaged differently from the UK version and included two bonus tracks ; " I Need Your Lovin '" ( a cover of the 1980 Teena Marie song ) and a remix of " Can't Take My Eyes Off You ".

While at Columbia working on an idea for her thesis film about a female soldier in drag during the American Civil War, Peirce read a Village Voice article about the life and death of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was brutally raped and murdered when his gender history was discovered.

With the help of a trusty ( Walter Baldwin ), he escapes from the prison ward, afraid that the lawyer will try to frame Teena and himself.

* 2004: " Makavelli Never Lied " ( from the Teena Marie album La Doña )

During his sophomore year, Teena rejected Christianity after he protested to a priest at Pius X regarding Christian views on abstinence and homosexuality.