Marlena Shaw, the soul and jazz vocalist identified for her hits “California Soul” and “Lady of the Ghetto,” has died. She was 81.

Shaw’s daughter, Marla Bradshaw, shared the information Friday in a video posted on Fb. A reason behind loss of life was not revealed.

“It’s with a really heavy coronary heart for myself and my household I announce that our beloved mom, the one you love icon and artist Marlena Shaw has handed away at the moment at 12:03,” Bradshaw mentioned within the video. “She was peaceable. We had been at peace.”

“She went listening to a few of her favourite songs,” Bradshaw added.

Shaw rose to prominence after signing with Chess Information in 1966. She launched two albums with the music label’s subsidiary Cadet Information: 1967’s “Out of Totally different Baggage” and 1969’s “The Spice of Life,” which featured the favored tracks “California Soul” and “Lady of the Ghetto.” “California Soul,” which was written by Ashford & Simpson, was closely sampled by different artists and appeared in a number of TV commercials.

Shaw moved to Blue Be aware Information in 1972 and launched her third studio album “Marlena” the identical yr. The singer’s different albums launched on the Blue Be aware label embody “From the Depths of My Soul” (1973), “Marlena Shaw Reside at Montreux” (1974), “Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?” (1975) and “Only a Matter of Time” (1976).

In 1977, Shaw launched the LP “Candy Beginnings” on Columbia Information, which contained the tracks “Yu Ma / Go Away Little Boy” and “Have a look at Me, Have a look at You.”

Shaw was born Marlina Burgess on Sept. 22, 1942, in New Rochelle, New York. She started her music profession within the Nineteen Sixties by singing in jazz golf equipment, and continued to carry out reside into the 2000s. In whole, she launched 17 albums with eight completely different file labels.

Verve Information, who labored with Shaw in 1987, shared a press release on Fb, writing, “We’re saddened by the passing of Marlena Shaw, an exquisite singer whose ‘California Soul’ is as standard at the moment because it ever was and whose album ‘It Is Love: Recorded Reside At Vine St.’ helped relaunch the Verve label in 1987.”