24 Facts About Simonne Jones

Simonne Michelle Jones was born on February 23,1987 and is a producer, singer, composer, model and visual artist based in Berlin.

Simonne Jones's maternal great-grandfather, Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell, is an accomplished West Indies cricketer and senator.

Simonne Jones taught herself to read music at age 3 and by the age of 10, started composing music.

When Simonne Jones was 15, she graduated high school by homeschooling herself.

Simonne Jones debuted her first exhibition as a visual artist at Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy in 2007 and held her first solo exhibition as a painter in Manhattan.

Simonne Jones, after being accepted into medical school, changed her mind on a medical career and moved to Berlin to pursue a career in music.

Simonne Jones took her first steps as a professional musician when she was asked to perform at a Diesel show for Berlin fashion week in 2012.

Simonne Jones was taken on as a protege by Peaches, who instilled artistic autonomy by encouraging her to engineer and produce recording sessions.

In 2013 Simonne Jones was photographed for the cover of Missy Magazine.

Simonne Jones performed her compositions in the play as a one-woman orchestra in China at Tianjin's Grand Theater, the Kurtheater Baden in Switzerland, the Theater Duisburg in Germany before the play moved to a residency at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg for the next 3 years.

Simonne Jones completed a six-month artist residency at Berlin's art collective Platoon Kunsthalle where she constructed motion activated, MIDI-controlled, LED paintings exploring topics in physics and cosmology.

Simonne Jones engineered them using open source computer controllers with her best friend, ArbitraryY, a software engineer in the aerospace industry.

At the time Simonne Jones was involved in DIY audio performing with self-built midi controllers, synthesizers, LED costumes and complex loop machines.

Simonne Jones explored music as a spiritual ritual in the Brazilian Amazon during an immersive indigenous experience in Jean Michel Jarre's documentary Soundhunters in 2015 with the Guarani people.

Simonne Jones released the song "The Silver Cord" in an album curated by Jean Michel Jarre called Zoolook Revisited inspired by his 1984 Zoolook album.

Simonne Jones has written and produced for other artists including the song "Vaginoplasty" with Peaches and Vice Cooler for her Rub album.

Simonne Jones produced the remix "Sick in the Head" for the Rub Remixed album.

Simonne Jones gave several lectures about how the integration of science and art inform her artwork including at the inaugural Blue Dot Festival at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Manchester and the Make Sound Festival in Leicester.

In 2021, Simonne Jones performed as a vocalist on Sneaker Pimps' first album in nearly 20 years, Squaring the Circle.

Simonne Jones produces, records and writes most of her music and lyrics alone in her studio and describes her music style as dark pop.

Simonne Jones's music has experimented with elements of pop, sythpop, dream pop, punk, alternative, baroque pop, electronica and electro.

Simonne Jones uses Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton and various analog synthesizers to produce.

Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter described, "Simonne Jones, who is a lover of science and a former biomedical researcher, cites her interest in concepts like the theory of relativity and other natural phenomena in her music as being fueled by her fascination with the "unknown mysteries of the universe.

Simonne Jones's style has been compared to PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Florence and the Machine and Grimes.