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Here's Grace!
Whenever you hear that and especially if the syllables are elongated you know that it could only apply to one person. The totally unique Ms Grace Jones.
Born in Jamaica in 1948 (making her 73 years young) her family moved to Syracuse, New York when she was 13. She is a bit of a polymath given that over the years she has been a model, an actress (including the James Bond film A View to a Kill) and a singer. She has had great success in all three fields.
She is renowened for being feisty and for taking no prisoners..Just ask Russell Harty
I've told this story here before but in my younger days I had a pretty much life sized billboard poster of Grace Jones which hung proudly on my bedroom wall for a good few years and which scared the bejesus out of any tradesman popping in to carry out some work!
She has been responsible for some fine tunes over the years mostly on the Island label and sometimes with the great Jamaican rhythm section of Sly and Robbie in tow.
Here are three off her best
Have you heard "Peanut Butter" by Compass Point All Stars? - It's the instrumental version of "Pull Up To The Bumper"
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Totally unique, as you say. The otherworldly looking Ms Jones on your wall certainly must have seemed scary BUT not as scary as the Ms Jones who appeared at the Diamond Jubilee concert 10 year ago. She must have been 64 back then but my goodness, the statuesque Grace in her stage outfit singing Slave To The Rhythm was something to behold. All done whilst spinning a hula hoop round her waist. She finished off by wishing the Queen a Happy Birthday. Wonder if she'll be on the roster this time around. (All this is a compliment by eh way - She was amazing.)
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Superb choice, CC, it's good to listen to Grace Jones any day of the year.
ReplyDelete@Alyson, I also posted about Grace recently and included a clip from 2019, showing that she's still handy with a hula hoop. She's back in London in June, finally here to curate & perform at the Meltdown Festival, postponed from 2020. Surely it's too much of an opportunity to pass up, to get Ms Jones back for the Jubilee? Your Majesty...?!