Jones influenced the crossdressing movement of the 1980s and has been an inspiration for artists including annie lennox, lady gaga, rihanna, solange, lorde. Music, film and fashion icon grace jones curates meltdown 2020, the 27th edition of the uks longestrunning artistcurated music festival. Mar 31, 2019 through it all, the ladies of point of grace have felt a pull toward helping teenage girls. Pull up to the bumper was the second single released by grace jones from her criticallyacclaimed 1981 album nightclubbing and has since come to be one of jones signature tunes. Booking entertainment is the leading entertainment booking agency for booking grace jones for events worldwide our grace jones agent will be happy to help you get grace jones s availability and booking fee, or the price and availability for any other alist entertainer, band, comedian or celebrity you may want for your corporate event. Browse grace jones tour dates and order tickets for upcoming concerts near you. Grace jones slave to the rhythm official video youtube. On her 68th birthday, we take a tour through some of jones most iconic, perfectmost grace joneslooks.
The album reprises the formula of her debut, with tom moulton on production, an aside playing as a disco suite and the bside opening with a disco version of a french classic, this time jacques prevert joseph kosma les feuilles mortes. Join facebook to connect with grace jones and others you may know. The 70s and 80s legend grace jones wants oysters and insists that she will do her own shucking of her requested molluscs, according to the following excerpt of her tour rider list leaked by. Estelle tang is the senior editor covering culture and entertainment at including tv, movies, books, music, and adidas tracksuits. Grace jones tickets grace jones concert tickets and tour dates. Grace jones is a jamaican singer, actress and model. Diva memoirs have a reputation for being light on revelations, but grace jones is no ordinary diva, and her upcoming book ill never write my memoirs is no ordinary book. Grace jones is the author of ill never write my memoirs 3.
How much does it really cost to book your favorite band. The shortlived trio produced one album and several singles before disbanding in 1984. Born in spanish town, jamaica, jones was raised in a strict and devoutly pentecostal household by her parents, who eventually moved to the u. May 28, 2015 grace jones, like nina simone, had that gift to make something other sound and feel like her own. She moved to syracuse, new york, in her early teens, where her parents had relocated and founded the apostolic church of jesus christ. Produced by eric valentine, daylight is a soulinflected. Grace was born and raised in chattanooga and was a 1979 graduate of red bank high. Grace jones biography, news, photos, videos, music, quotes grace jones born 19. Join songkick to track grace jones and get concert alerts when they play near you. In 2002, that pull officially became known as the girls of grace project. Grace jones dances in a jumpsuit at the party for madonnas book sex in 1992 at industria superstudio in new york city. A one man show is a longform music video collection featuring jamaican singer grace jones, released in 1982. This event has been rescheduled as we are currently closed due to the coronavirus crisis. Grace jones one man show, 1981 original promo poster, 39x28.
More than 200 legendary artists and bands are assembled in one place, which is the roster of your booking agency glp. Her stage presence is unmatched and her performance style is one in its own lane. Grace jones tour 20202021 find dates and tickets stereoboard. The song was cowritten by jones herself, sly dunbar, dana mano and robbie shakespeare. The video mainly consists of music videos, with some concert footage filmed when jones. When the first grace period was over around 1981, mac austin and harry davies along with harrys brother john formed the synth pop band white door. She has since topped this chart with slave to the rhythm in 1985, love on top of love in 1989 and sex drive in 1993, scoring. Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Ive always fanboyed over grace jones due to her originality, shockingly vibrant looks and appearance, as well as her obvious love for art, taking all advantages that life gives you, as well as wanting to. Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by jamaican singer grace jones, released on 11 may 1981 by island records. Booking grace jones booking entertainment booking agency. Classic rock music booking agency hire top rock artists, bands, musicians and entertainers, 9089388307.
A similar pose appears in his 1981 book, jungle fever, which also includes his most famous and infamous portraits of ms. Hurricane is the tenth studio album by singer grace jones, released in 2008, and her first album of new material in nineteen years. Buy and sell your grace jones concert tickets today. Findticketsfast has grace jones concert tickets 2020 for any event date or concert performance in usa, plus in canada. In 1998 island records issued this doubledisc collection of grace jones legendary compass point sessions in jamaica. She would also exemplify the flat top, a hairstyle popular among men in the late1980s, which she displayed on the cover of her first nondisco album, 1980s warm leatherette. The vibrant, 70s inspired clip directed by george mays allows the songs vibrant arrangement and soulful swagger to take center stage. Our grace jones tour 2020 tickets can be fixed using location. Acclaimed songwriter and performer grace potter released her first new album in four years, daylight today via fantasy records. A devotional book, a workbook, a journal, and an album came out first, followed by yearly girls of grace conferences. But in 1988 an accidental meeting between mac austin and dave rushton gave rise to discussions about reforming grace.
Grace jones ragland, 58, of huntsville, alabama, passed away on january 24, 2020. Grace beverly jones oj born 19 may 1948 is a jamaicanamerican model, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Booking grace jones will cause a storm at your special event. When she stomped onto the fashion scene in the 70s, grace jones. She moved to new york at 18 and began a modelling career that took her to. Glitter up the dark is required reading for queer music. She was shy and skinny during her childhood days and was often teased by her classmates. I believe the people writing that the book is a bore, wanted to read some crazy and outrageous stories about the rumored eccentric grace jones but she fooled them all and wrote a book. I lived in nyc from 19821994, during part of which time she was living and performing there.
Raised in syracuse, new york, she found success in the 70s as a model, working in new york and paris where she shared an apartment with jerry hall and jessica lange, before rising to public prominence as a singer and personality. Jones began her modelling career in new york state, then in paris, working for fashion houses such as yves. Today, acclaimed songwriter and performer grace potter shared the official music video for the sultry back to me featuring supreme vocalists jess wolfe and holly laessig of indie pop band lucius. Grace jones wiki, affair, married, age, height, singer.
Beverly grace jones is a jamaican singer, actress and model. In case you couldnt tell from the title of her new memoir ill never write my memoirs and her excerpted disses of everyone from rihanna to nicki minaj, grace jones is making her own rules when it comes to book promotion. Its frank regarding the sex and drugs the legendary singeractor has indulged in, and unapologetically opinionated, but sometimes less than forthcoming about seemingly simple details jones spends several pages. Remain in love is a gold mine for fans of the 1970s and 80s music scene. Grace jones is having the wildest book tour ever nsfw.
Grace jones tickets for the upcoming concert tour are on sale at stubhub. Fame is the second studio album by grace jones, released in june 1978 by island records. Grace jones tour dates and concert tickets eventful. Grace jones tour dates 2018, grace jones concert tickets. When she was thirteen she and her siblings moved to her parents in syracuse, new york. Grace jones was born grace beverly jones on may 19, 1948, in jamaica to robert w. From nightclubbing, nipple to the bottle and amazing grace to love is the drug, warm leatherette and private life, miss grace jones is 300% committed to her. For the first time in new zealand, we will see grace jones with full live band performing an exclusive oneoff south island show at the queenstown events centre on march 2nd, 2018. Rock bands, concert agency home contact page rock artists. The story of disco, an excellent book by the way, and found out that before the eighties hits, grace was an underground disco diva who released three essential disco albums. Grace jones with full live band queenstown eventfinda. Grace jones tour dates 2018, grace jones concert tickets 2018. Ibiza music agency celebrities on tour 2020 available. Grace jones is a jamaican singersongwriter and musician hailing from spanish town.
In 1999, jones ranked 82nd on vh1s 100 greatest women of rock and roll, and in 2008, she was honored with a q idol award. Grace jones tour dates 2020 grace jones concert tickets. Jeanpaul goudes constructivist maternity dress, 1979, created when jones was pregnant with her and goudes son, paulo. Find past 2019 grace jones tour dates with the 2019 grace jones tour history on jambase. Rhythm and alps is proud to present, the iconic party girl and warrior queen grace jones. A music memoir that is as much about love as music. And though these may be more accurate than the first list, there are still some.
Grace jones discography consists of 10 studio albums, eight compilation albums and 53 singles jones began her recording career in 1975 with a disco song i need a man which became her first number one on billboards hot dance club songs chart two years later. Remember, these amounts are not what a band gets for playing a show amidst a tour, but rather what they might ask for to fly into some random city for a oneoff performance. Grace jones was one of the more unforgettable artists to emerge from new york citys hedonistic studio 54 disco scene of the late 70s. Wildly entertaining, occasionally stunningly poetic, and based on the rough outlines of jones incredible life and illustrious career, ill never write my memoirs is something as she spends pages proclaiming she does with her music utterly new and unique. Get the first chance to book for every godowninhistory gig at southbank. Around 20, i read jussi kantonens and alan joness book saturday night forever. A task of this kind would force him to clone himself twice, since leitner and his team book up to concerts per year, or three per day.
Grace jones meltdown festival is taking over southbank centre from 12 21 june. An inimitable force, grace jones is a legend and she put on a phenomenal show that went well beyond the original end time. Grace slick born grace barnett wing, october 30, 1939 is an american retired singersongwriter, musician, artist and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in san franciscos burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid1960s. Grace joness most iconic looks through the years, from. On the flip side, geffen digs into grace jones covers of iggy pop and david bowie songs, which bask in and intensify the apathy they got to enjoy as men. Tour dates, concert tickets 2018 beverly grace jones is a jamaican singer, actress and model.
Model and actor who developed from a traditional disco artist to a distinct. Janet damita jo jackson, 16 may 1966, gary, indiana, usa. She showered the audience with messages of selfacceptance, liberation and love. Name last modified size description cgibin, 20191126 16. The album includes a number of autobiographical songs and the title track was first recorded as a 1997 collaboration with tricky under the title cradle to the grave.
Their next tour date is sunday, august 16th at hylands park in chelmsford, united kingdom. Born in jamaica, she moved when she was, along with her siblings, to live with her parents in syracuse, new york. For example, opening track, jones the rhythm, features ian mcshane. Certainly, if you want to hear grace jones, a singer who rose to. Jamaican singer, actress and supermodel born on may 19, 1948 some sources claim 1950 or 1952 in spanish town, jamaica, west indies. The most ridiculous tour riders demands business insider. Publishers weekly this swiftpaced, wellwritten book has the upbeat tone of. We have one of the most massive databases of tickets for all the grace jones 2020 tour dates location. She so embodied the song, and whether singing or speaking, her voice is a vibrant instrument and the connective force between a killer track and someone dying for connection, someone outside normal, someone looking for an inside of their own. Grace kelly is an awardwinning singer, saxophonist, and songwriter. Grace beverly jones oj born 19 may 1948 is a jamaican model, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. You can find the list of grace jones tour dates here. Grace jones in a keith haringpainted ballgown, 1987. Grace jones born beverly grace jones on may 19, 1948, in spanish town, jamaica is a model, singer and actress.
Jackson was the youngest of the nine children in the family that produced the jackson five including michael jackson, jermaine jackson and latoya jackson. Grace jones tickets, 2020 concert tour dates ticketmaster. I am gravely disappointed, but also delighted to be working with the amazing southbank team who have been able to successfully move the festival dates, along with all of our incredible lineup. We are a booking agent for grace jones, and can arrange for her to perform for your guests. She was born in spanish town, jamaica and raised by her grandparents. A 45 day notice is required prior to original date.
Her book ill never write my memoirs is only a memoir in the loosest sense of that literary form. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The 67yearold supermodel, singer, and 70s icon had a signing and publicity event in new york last night and reportedly showed up almost two hours late. Grace performed on cbs this mornings saturday sessions yesterday. One man show was the name both of grace jones performances at londons drury lane theatre and new yorks savoy theater in 1981 and of the video released the following year. Get grace jones setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other grace jones fans for free on.