“加州靈魂”歌手瑪蓮娜·肖去世，享年81歲

Marlena Shaw, the legendary jazz and soul singer behind such hits as “California Soul” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” has died at 81.
瑪蓮娜·肖，爵士樂和靈魂歌手背后的傳奇歌手，《加州靈魂》和《Mercy, Mercy, Mercy》在81年上映。

Her daughter, Marla Bradshaw, shared the news of her death in a Friday Facebook video, though the cause of death was not disclosed.
她的女兒瑪拉·布拉德肖在周五的Facebook視頻中分享了她去世的消息，但沒有透露死因。

“It’s with a very heavy heart that for myself and my family I announce that our beloved mother, your beloved icon and artist Marlena Shaw has passed away today at 12:03,” Bradshaw said. “She was peaceful. We were at peace… She went listening to some of her favorite songs.”
布拉德肖說:“我懷著沉重的心情向我和我的家人宣布，我們深愛的母親、你們深愛的偶像和藝術(shù)家瑪蓮娜·肖于今天12:03去世了。”“她很平靜。我們很平靜……她去聽了一些她最喜歡的歌。”

She added, “I just want to thank you all for being on her page. Thank you for being a part of her life. Especially these last three years, which made her very happy.”
她補充說:“我只是想感謝大家關(guān)注她的頁面。謝謝你成為她生命的一部分。尤其是過去的三年，這讓她非常開心。”

Born Marlina Burgess on Sep. 22, 1942, the singer began her music career after encouragement from her uncle Jimmy Burgess, a jazz trumpet player. She first took to the stage in 1952 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where her uncle invited her up to sing with his band. From there, Shaw performed in jazz clubs big and small, with her career taking off after she landed a gig at a Playboy Club in Chicago.
瑪琳娜·伯吉斯出生于1942年9月22日，她在叔叔吉米·伯吉斯的鼓勵下開始了她的音樂生涯，吉米·伯吉斯是一位爵士小號演奏家。1952年，她第一次登上舞臺是在哈萊姆的阿波羅劇院，她的叔叔邀請她和他的樂隊一起演唱。從那時起，肖在大大小小的爵士俱樂部演出，在芝加哥的花花公子俱樂部演出后，她的事業(yè)開始起飛。

Shaw was in her early 20s when she signed with Chess Records. There she released two albums, 1967’s Out of Different Bags and 1969’s The Spice of Life, with the latter featuring two of her biggest hits, “California Soul” and “Woman of the Ghetto.” 
肖與Chess唱片公司簽約時才20歲出頭。在那里，她發(fā)行了兩張專輯，1967年的《Out of Different Bags》和1969年的《The Spice of Life》，后者收錄了她最受歡迎的兩張專輯《California Soul》和《Woman of The Ghetto》。

She moved to the more jazz-oriented Blue Note Records in 1972, where she released her self-titled third studio album, Marlena. Shaw would continue moving studios and throughout her career, eventually releasing 17 albums total with eight different record labels. 
1972年，她加入了更偏向爵士風格的Blue Note唱片公司，在那里她發(fā)行了自己的第三張同名錄音室專輯《Marlena》。在她的職業(yè)生涯中，蕭伯納繼續(xù)搬工作室，最終與8個不同的唱片公司共發(fā)行了17張專輯。

“California Soul,” penned by Ashford & Simpson and first recorded by The Messengers, remains one of Shaw’s most recognizable tracks, often sampled by artists and licensed for use in several commercials. On the subject of having her music sampled, Shaw said in a 2009 interview, “I think it’s great. I really do. Number one, I love the surprise of it and like to hear what somebody else’s idea is.”
《加州靈魂》由阿什福德和辛普森創(chuàng)作，由信使樂隊首次錄制，至今仍是肖最知名的曲目之一，經(jīng)常被藝術(shù)家們采樣，并被授權(quán)在幾條廣告中使用。在2009年的一次采訪中，談到她的音樂被采樣一事，肖說:“我認為這很棒。真的。第一，我喜歡它帶來的驚喜，喜歡聽到別人的想法是什么。”

She added with a laugh, “But this kinda makes me feel like I’m the sun, you know, and I shine on all kinds of things.”
她笑著補充道:“但這讓我覺得自己是太陽，你知道，我能照耀各種各樣的事物。”

On Jan. 20, Verve Records, who worked with Shaw in 1987, shared a statement celebrating her life: “We are saddened by the passing of Marlena Shaw, a wonderful singer whose 'California Soul’ is as popular today as it ever was and whose album It Is Love: Recorded Live At Vine St. helped relaunch the Verve label in 1987.”
1月20日，曾在1987年與Shaw合作過的Verve唱片公司發(fā)表了一份聲明來紀念她的一生:“我們對Marlena Shaw的去世感到悲傷，Marlena Shaw是一位出色的歌手，她的《加州靈魂》至今仍像以前一樣受歡迎，她的專輯《it is Love: Recorded Live At Vine St.》在1987年幫助Verve重新推出了品牌。”