Profile
Grace Jones
Jamaican American Singer + Model
Female
Born
May 19, 1952
Age
61
Hometown
Spanish Town
Genres
Dance music + Ele...
Record Label
Wall Of Sound (Re...
Other Names
Mendoza, Grace
Grace Jones is a Jamaican American singer, actress and model. Jones started out as a model and became a muse to Andy Warhol. During that era she regularly went to the New York City nightclub Studio 54. Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in… Read More
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Ivor Forbes GuestDated 2006
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Atila AltaunbayMarried 1996
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Teen Fiction: Vigilante GreenThe Huffington Post - Mar 12, 2013
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Faith Cheltenham: Bisexuals Worthy Of Celebration During Black History Month: June JordanHuffington Post - Feb 25, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1948
Birth
Grace Jones was born in 1948 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie and Robert W. Jones, who was a politician and Apostolic clergyman.
TEENAGE
1965
17 Years Old
Her parents took Grace and her brothers, Chris and Noel Jones, and relocated to Syracuse, New York in 1965, where she studied theatre at Syracuse University.
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TWENTIES
1973
25 Years Old
In the 1973 film Gordon's War, Jones played the role of Mary, a Harlem drug courier.
Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits and a large gay following.
THIRTIES
1978
30 Years Old
In 1978, she appeared with the French model and singer Amanda Lear in the controversial six-episode Italian TV series Stryx.
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The latter would become one of the Jones's most recognizable tunes and the self-penned, post-disco dance track "Pull Up to the Bumper" spent seven weeks at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, and became a Top 5 single on the U.S. R&B chart when released as a single in the fall of 1981.
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1984
36 Years Old
In 1984, Jones' work as an actress in mainstream film began, with the role of Zula, the Amazon, in Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and former NBA player Wilt Chamberlain.
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1985
37 Years Old
In the mid-1980s, she worked with Trevor Horn and Bruce Woolley for the conceptual musical collage Slave to the Rhythm, which was released in the fall of 1985.
FORTIES
1989
41 Years Old
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Jones has been married twice; her first husband was producer Chris Stanley, whom she married in 1989.
1992
44 Years Old
In 1992 Jones appeared in Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, for which she also contributed the song "7 Day Weekend" to its soundtrack, and released one more soundtrack single in 1993; "Evilmainya", recorded for the film Freddie as F.R.O.7.
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1994
46 Years Old
In 1994, she was due to release an electro album titled Black Marilyn with artwork featuring the singer as Marilyn Monroe. "Sex Drive" was released as the first single, however, due to heavy disagreements with producers, the record was shelved.
FIFTIES
In June 1998, she was scheduled to release an album entitled Force of Nature, on which she worked with trip hop musician Tricky.
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1999
51 Years Old
In 1999 she appeared in an episode of the Beastmaster television series as the Umpatra Warrior.
In 2000, Jones cut "The Perfect Crime", an up-tempo song for Danish TV written by the composer duo Floppy M. aka Jacob Duus and Kåre Jacobsen.
2002
54 Years Old
On 28 May 2002, she performed onstage in Modena, Italy with Italian opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti during his annual Pavarotti and Friends concert to support the UN refugee agency's programs for Angolan refugees in Zambia.
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2004
56 Years Old
In November 2004, Jones sang her hit "Slave to the Rhythm" at a tribute concert for record producer Trevor Horn at London's Wembley Arena.
2005
57 Years Old
In April 2005 Jones raised a controversy, when she was accused of verbally abusing a Eurostar train manager in a quarrel over a ticket upgrade, and she either was escorted off the train or left of her own accord, later saying that she had been mistreated.
2006
58 Years Old
In February 2006, Jones was the celebrity runway model for Diesel's show in New York.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2009
61 Years Old
She also collaborated with the avant-garde poet Brigitte Fontaine on a duet named "Soufi" from Fontaine's album Prohibition released in autumn 2009, and produced by Ivor Guest.
In 2010 Grace Jones performed at Royal Albert Hall, receiving rave reviews, while a budget DVD version of A One Man Show was released, as Grace Jones – Live in Concert, with 3 bonus videoclips ("Slave to the Rhythm", "Love Is the Drug" and "Crush"). 2011 saw Jones again collaborating with Brigitte Fontaine on two tracks from her 2011 release entitled L'un n'empêche pas l'autre and performed at the opening ceremony of the 61st FIFA Congress.
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2012
64 Years Old
On 4 June 2012 Jones performed at Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Concert in London, where she sang "Slave to the Rhythm" whilst hula hooping.
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