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Marlena Shaw, ‘California Soul’ singer, dead at 81

    Marlena Shaw, the jazz and R&B vocalist whose “California Soul” was one of the defining soul songs of the late 1960s, has died. Shaw’s daughter, Marla Bradshaw, announced the singer's death Friday in a video posted on Facebook. “It’s with a very heavy heart 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 in the video.

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