Published video “Evilmainya (Black Machine Version Remix By Nn)”.
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Grace Jones
Grace Beverly Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model and actress. She began her modelling career in New York, signing with Wilhelmina Models. After moving to Paris, she worked for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, while appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue Hommes. Jones was photographed by Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and emerged as one of the most prom…
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Born 19 May 1948 · Q450429
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2026· 15 entries
Published video “Evilmainya (Black Machine Remix Album Edit)”.
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Published video “Evilmainya (Black Machine Remix Club Mix)”.
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Published video “Evilmainya (Black Machine Remix Extended Mix)”.
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Published video “I Still Get the Blues (Colonna sonora del film "Quelli della calibro 38")”.
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Published video “I'll Find My Way to You (From "Quelli Della Calibro 38")”.
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Published video “I Still Get the Blues (From "Quelli della calibro 38")”.
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Published video “I'll Find My Way to You (Colonna sonora del film "Quelli della calibro 38")”.
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Published video “I'll Find My Way to You”.
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The Guardian: Womadelaide 2026 review: Grace Jones embraces the compulsion for dancing in the dark times
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The Guardian: Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all
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The Guardian: Mardi Gras parade, Bad Bunny and Grace Jones headline blockbuster last day of summer in Sydney
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The Guardian: ‘She thought it was too sexy!’: portraits of Kate Moss, Grace Jones and a tea-drinking chimp – in pictures
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The Guardian: 10 of the greatest songs by Sly Dunbar – from reggae classics to Grace Jones and Bob Dylan
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits
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The Guardian: Grace Jones: ‘Even if I stand on my head, I still can’t do it. How these young girls twerk, I don’t know’
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Published video “Grace Jones - Demolition Man (Live From 'A One Man Show' Tour / 1981)”.
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2020· 1 entry
The first ever art exhibition centred around Jones was presented at Nottingham Contemporary in the United Kingdom, in an attempt to represent "a multi-faceted pop culture icon while trying to reformulate an alternative i
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2017· 3 entries
Published video “GraceJonesVEVO Live Stream”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2017.
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Jones collaborated with British virtual band Gorillaz, appearing on the song "Charger" from their fifth studio album Humanz
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2016· 1 entry
Billboard ranked her as the 40th greatest dance club artist of all time
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Disco”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Icon”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Nightclubbing + Slave to the Rhythm”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2012.
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Hurricane / Hurricane Dub”.
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Jones collaborated again with Brigitte Fontaine on two tracks from her release entitled L'un n'empêche pas l'autre and performed at the opening ceremony of the 61st FIFA Congress
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It was released and remastered by Gold Legion, a record company that specialises in reissuing classic disco albums on CD
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2010· 3 entries
Published video “Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)”.
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Published video “Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper”.
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Published video “Grace Jones - Love Is The Drug”.
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2009· 2 entries
Chris Cunningham produced a fashion shoot for Dazed & Confused using Jones as a model to create "Nubian versions" of Rubber Johnny
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2009.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Starclub präsentiert: Grace Jones”.
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Released album “Hurricane”.
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Released album “Hurricane (Instrumentals)”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “The Grace Jones Story”.
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Released album “My Jamaican Guy”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “Rare 12" Mixes”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones”.
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Released album “X-Treme”.
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Released album “Classic Grace Jones”.
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2002· 1 entry
Jones joined Luciano Pavarotti on stage for his annual Pavarotti and Friends fundraiser concert to support the United Nations refugee agency's programs for Angolan refugees in Zambia
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2001· 1 entry
Jones starred in the film, Wolf Girl (also known as Blood Moon), as an intersex circus performer named Christoph/Christine
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2000· 1 entry
Jones collaborated with rapper Lil' Kim, appearing on the song "Revolution" from her album The Notorious K
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions”.
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For the film The Avengers, and in 1999, appeared in an episode of the Beastmaster television series as the Umpatra Warrior
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1996· 1 entry
Jones released "Love Bites", an up-tempo electronic track to promote the Sci-Fi Channel's Vampire Week, which consisted of a series of vampire-themed films aired on the channel in early November 1996
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1995· 1 entry
Jones reunited with Tom Moulton for a disco-house take on Candi Staton's 1978 song "Victim", however, the song's release was cancelled by Island Records
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1994· 1 entry
Was due to release an electro album titled Black Marilyn with artwork featuring the singer as Marilyn Monroe
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1992· 1 entry
Jones acted in the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, and contributed music for the accompanying soundtrack
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1990· 3 entries
Released ep “Amado Mio”.
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Jones appeared as herself in the documentary, Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
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And was in an open relationship as of 2007
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Bulletproof Heart”.
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Produced by Chris Stanley, who co-wrote, and co-produced the majority of the songs, and was featured as a guest vocalist on "Don't Cry Freedom"
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1987· 1 entry
Jones appeared in two films, Straight to Hell, and Mary Lambert's Siesta, for which Jones was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Inside Story”.
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Released ep “Re-Mix Re-Mask”.
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Slave to the Rhythm”.
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Released album “Island Life”.
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Released album “Dance Collection”.
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Jones starred as May Day, henchwoman to main antagonist Max Zorin in the 14th James Bond film A View to a Kill; Jones was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
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1983· 1 entry
Released ep “Cry Now, Laugh Later”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Living My Life”.
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Released the music video collection A One Man Show, directed by Goude, which earned a nomination for Best Video Album at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards
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And recorded Living My Life; the album resulted in Jones's final contribution to the Compass Point trilogy, with only one cover, Melvin Van Peebles's "The Apple Stretching"
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Nightclubbing”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Warm Leatherette”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Muse”.
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “Fame”.
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And was used as a backdrop for the music video of Jones's hit single "La Vie en rose"
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Jones and Moulton made Fame, an immediate follow-up to Portfolio, also recorded at Sigma Sound Studios
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Portfolio”.
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Jones embarked on a music career, securing a record deal with Island Records and becoming associated with New York City's Studio 54-centered disco scene
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1973· 1 entry
Jones appeared on the cover of a reissue of Billy Paul's 1970 album Ebony Woman
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-05-19.
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In Spanish Town, Jamaica, to Marjorie (née Williams) (1927–2017) and Robert W
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