1. Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer.
14 Facts About Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones was the youngest of six children; her siblings are Dora, Charles, Ike, Willa and Henry.
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Sharon Jones's mother raised her deceased sister's four children as well as her own.
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Sharon Jones moved the family to New York City when Sharon was a young child.
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Sharon Jones grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
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Sharon Jones was the only one of three singers called to the session to show up.
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In 2015, during an interview with Billboard about her Grammy nomination, Sharon Jones discussed her commitment to the Daptone Label, an independent company.
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Sharon Jones cited artistic freedom and the commitment to the band.
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Sharon Jones had a small part in the 2007 film The Great Debaters, starring Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker, in which she played Lila, a juke joint singer.
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Sharon Jones has sometimes been called, especially early in her late renaissance of a career, the Female James Brown.
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The diagnosis was later changed to stage II pancreatic cancer, for which Sharon Jones had surgery on her liver and underwent chemotherapy.
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Sharon Jones suffered a stroke while watching the 2016 United States presidential election results and another the following day.
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Sharon Jones remained alert and lucid during the initial period of her hospital stay, claiming light-heartedly that the news of Donald Trump's victory was responsible for her stroke.
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Sharon Jones died on November 18,2016, in Cooperstown, New York, aged 60.