Grace Beverly Jones was born on 19 May 1948 and is an American model, singer and actress.
61 Facts About Grace Jones
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Grace Jones notably worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features.
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In 1992, Grace Jones acted in the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, and contributed to the soundtrack.
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Grace Jones appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl.
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Grace Jones was ranked 82nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.
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Grace Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s and has been cited as an inspiration for multiple artists, including Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Solange, Lorde, Roisin Murphy, Brazilian Girls, Nile Rodgers, Santigold, and Basement Jaxx.
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Grace Jones was born in 1948 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie and Robert W Jones, who was a local politician and Apostolic clergyman.
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Grace Jones was raised into the family's Pentecostal faith, having to take part in prayer meetings and Bible readings every night.
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Grace Jones initially attended the Pentecostal All Saints School, before being sent to a nearby public school.
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Grace Jones was teased by classmates for her "skinny frame", but she excelled at sports and found solace in the nature of Jamaica.
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Grace Jones continued her schooling and after she graduated, enrolled at Onondaga Community College majoring in Spanish.
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Grace Jones began to rebel against her parents and their religion; she began wearing makeup, drinking alcohol, and visiting gay clubs with her brother.
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Grace Jones moved back to New York at 18 and signed on as a model with Wilhelmina Models.
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Grace Jones modelled for Azzedine Alaia, and was frequently photographed promoting his line.
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Hall and Grace Jones frequented Le Sept, one of Paris's most popular gay clubs of the 1970s and 1980s, and socialised with Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld.
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In 1973, Grace Jones appeared on the cover of a reissue of Billy Paul's 1970 album Ebony Woman.
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Grace Jones was signed by Island Records, who put her in the studio with disco record producer, Tom Moulton.
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The album features a re-recorded version "I'll Find My Way to You", which Grace Jones released three years prior to Muse.
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Originally appearing in the 1976 Italian film, Colt 38 Special Squad in which Grace Jones had a role as a club singer, Grace Jones recorded a song called "Again and Again" that was featured in the film.
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The album included one song co-written by Grace Jones, "A Rolling Stone".
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Grace Jones is presented as a man wearing an Armani suit jacket, with a cigarette in her mouth and a flattop haircut.
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Grace Jones's head is sharpened, giving her head and face an angular shape.
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In 1985, Grace Jones starred as May Day, henchwoman to main antagonist Max Zorin in the 14th James Bond film A View to a Kill; Grace Jones was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Grace Jones was among the many stars to promote the Honda Scooter; other artists included Lou Reed, Adam Ant, and Miles Davis.
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All eight tracks on the album featured excerpts from a conversation with Grace Jones, speaking about many aspects of her life.
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Grace Jones earned an MTV Video Music Award nomination for the title track's music video.
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Inside Story was the first album Grace Jones produced, which resulted in heated disputes with Rodgers.
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In 1987, Grace Jones appeared in two films, Straight to Hell, and Mary Lambert's Siesta, for which Grace Jones was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.
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In 1990, Grace Jones appeared as herself in the documentary, Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol.
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In 1995, Grace Jones reunited with Tom Moulton for a disco-house take on Candi Staton's 1978 song "Victim" the song's release was cancelled by Island Records.
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In 1996, Grace Jones released "Love Bites", an up-tempo electronic track to promote the Sci-Fi Channel's Vampire Week, which consisted of a series of vampire-themed films aired on the channel in early November 1996.
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The track features Grace Jones singing from the perspective of a vampire.
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In June 1998, Grace Jones was scheduled to release an album entitled Force of Nature, on which she worked with trip hop musician Tricky.
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Grace Jones recorded the track "Storm" in 1998 for the movie The Avengers, and in 1999, appeared in an episode of the Beastmaster television series as the Umpatra Warrior.
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In 2002, Grace Jones joined Luciano Pavarotti on stage for his annual Pavarotti and Friends fundraiser concert to support the United Nations refugee agency's programs for Angolan refugees in Zambia.
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In November 2004, Grace Jones sang "Slave to the Rhythm" at a tribute concert for record producer Trevor Horn at London's Wembley Arena.
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Grace Jones promoted the album even further by appearing on talk show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, performed at several awards galas, and embarked on The Hurricane Tour.
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Grace Jones worked with the avant-garde poet Brigitte Fontaine on a duet named "Soufi" from Fontaine's album Prohibition released in 2009, and produced by Ivor Guest.
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In March 2010 Grace Jones performed for guests at the 18th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Viewing Party.
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In 2011, Grace Jones collaborated again with Brigitte Fontaine on two tracks from her release entitled and performed at the opening ceremony of the 61st FIFA Congress.
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Grace Jones closed the evening with a performance of and "Pull Up to the Bumper".
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Two months later, Grace Jones performed "Slave to the Rhythm" at the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, and the Lovebox Festival.
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On 27 October 2012, Grace Jones performed her only North American show of 2012, a performance at New York City's Roseland Ballroom.
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Tom Grace Jones accepted the gift in good humour, and replied by saying, "I didn't think you wore any".
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Grace Jones's memoir entitled I'll Never Write My Memoirs was released on 29 September 2015.
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In 2017, Grace Jones collaborated with British virtual band Gorillaz, appearing on the song "Charger" from their fifth studio album Humanz.
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In October 2018, Grace Jones received the Order of Jamaica from the Jamaican government.
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In June 2022, Grace Jones served as curator of the 27th edition of the Meltdown Festival, the UK's longest-running artist-curated music festival.
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Grace Jones had been announced as the curator already for the 2020 festival, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was rescheduled to 2022.
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Grace Jones provided guest vocals on Beyonce's song "Move" from her seventh studio album Renaissance, released in July 2022.
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Grace Jones is from Jamaica, so she speaks English in a quite thought-out way.
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Grace Jones was listed as one of the 50 best-dressed over 50 by The Guardian in March 2013.
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Grace Jones's work is often discussed for its visual aspect, which was largely the work of French illustrator, photographer, and graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude.
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Grace Jones was featured prominently in Goude's work from that period, "which, over the course of the '80s, became increasingly synonymous with willful distortion" - using a technique he refers to as "French correction".
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Grace Jones knew artist Richard Bernstein, and artist and social activist Keith Haring, who painted her head-to-toe for a series of photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe and for her role in the 1986 film Vamp.
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Grace Jones opted for a new wave sound in the early 1980s.
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Grace Jones recorded a series of albums backed by the Jamaica rhythm section duo Sly and Robbie.
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Grace Jones described her childhood as having been "crushed underneath the Bible", and since has refused to enter a Jamaican church due to her bad childhood experiences.
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Grace Jones started dating Danish actor and stuntman Sven-Ole Thorsen in 1990, and was in an open relationship as of 2007.
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Grace Jones's brother is megachurch preacher Bishop Noel Grace Jones, who starred on the 2013 reality show Preachers of LA.
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Grace Jones used the surname "Mendoza" in her 20s, so that her parents would not know that she was working as a go-go dancer.