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Grace Jones (2011)

Grace Beverly Jones , pseudonym Grace Mendoza (born May 19, 1948 in Spanish Town near Kingston ) is a Jamaican singer , actress and performance artist .

As a former model , she is known for her extravagant clothes and unusual appearances, e.g. B. in men's clothing or in gorilla costumes. Their stylish, androgynous and emphatically hypothermic image is an important part of their appearances.

Childhood, modeling career and disco

Grace Jones, 2009

Grace Jones's father, Robert Winston Jones (1924-2008), came from a family that included Jamaican politicians and administrators. The mother, Marjorie Walters (1930-2017), came from a deeply religious family. The parents moved to the USA in the mid-1950s, where the father worked as a preacher and in 1956 founded the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Syracuse , New York State. Grace Jones and her four siblings stayed in Jamaica with their maternal grandmother and her second husband, Peart, who was 20 years her junior, only Mas of the children. P. called. In her autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs (New York, 2015) and in the 2017 documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami , Jones tells of the strict religious upbringing, beatings and abuse that she and her siblings were given by her grandmother's husband had to suffer.

In the first half of the 1960s, the parents brought the children to America. Another child was born there. Jones attended Onandaga Community College in Syracuse. She entered the theater class and went on tour with her teacher and the newly formed group The Ruskin Players. When she arrived in Philadelphia , she never returned to her parents' home. In order not to be recognized, she worked under the stage name "Grace Mendoza" as a go-go dancer in night clubs and applied for smaller modeling jobs. A first audition with the music producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff in Philadelphia failed due to their nervousness. After a stay in New York, where she was under contract with the model agency Black Beauty, she switched to the Wilhelmina Models agency, founded in 1967, and made friends a. a. with the fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez .

In the first half of the 1970s, Jones moved to Paris and worked with Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange for the Euro Planning agency (later Prestige). Larger orders followed: Jones was photographed by Helmut Newton and appeared for the first time on the cover of the French youth magazine 20 Ans . Front pages for Vogue and Elle followed . During this time she received her first recording contract and took singing lessons. She made her first appearance as a singer in 1976 while touring Japan with Issey Miyake . At the end of the show Issey Miyake and Twelve Black Girls , she presented the song I Need a Man in a wedding dress , which became her first single produced by Tom Moulton . By 1979 she released the albums Portfolio (1977), Fame (1978) and Muse (1979), which were shaped by disco fashion . The album covers were designed by Richard F. Bernstein .

On her 30th birthday, she gave a concert in Studio 54 , where she was a regular guest. She commuted between Paris and New York and gave concerts in the Paris nightclub Le Palace and in New York's Paradise Garage . Of the disco albums, the long cover version of Édith Piaf's La vie en rose (1977), in which Jones underwent a radical change, was remembered.

In 1978, Alice Schwarzer , Inge Meysel and other prominent women sued Stern magazine for degrading portrayals of women as part of the so-called sexism lawsuit . The trigger was u. a. a cover picture of Helmut Newton's magazine, which showed Jones undressed in anklets.

Image change in the early 1980s: A One Man Show

After the release of Muse , Grace Jones felt the need for a change: “Disco was an accident, within a couple of years I had released my three disco albums, produced by Tom Moulton . They became more of his vision than mine… I became decoration, and that bored me. ”With Chris Blackwell , founder of Island Records , she put together a group of studio musicians, the Compass Point All Stars, consisting of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare , Barry Reynolds , Wally Badarou and Alex Sadkin .

The following three albums were created in this combination: Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981) and Living My Life (1982). The music consisted of a mix of styles of reggae , new wave and electronic elements and included African, Jamaican and European influences. Jones developed a cool speaking chant and was involved in the productions. The albums were recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau , Bahamas . They included covers of Nightclubbing , originally sung by Iggy Pop (written by Pop and David Bowie ), Love Is the Drug by Roxy Music , Private Life by the Pretenders , Walking in the Rain by Flash and the Pan , Warm Leatherette by The Normal and She's Lost Control by Joy Division . The visual image change was implemented by the French illustrator Jean-Paul Goude , whom Jones met in the late 1970s.

She opened her concerts, based on Marlene Dietrich's appearance in Blonde Venus , in a gorilla costume , in which she climbed a staircase on the stage, drumming, and when she reached the plateau, stepped out of the disguise. She was accompanied by male, robotic moving extras who wore Grace Jones masks and were dressed in the same Armanian suits as the singer, so that the viewer could no longer identify them on stage. The stage design and changing costumes were influenced by minimalism and cubism , and contained elements of musical theater , the absurd and the happening . For much of the show, the spotlights were turned on the audience.

For Pull Up to the Bumper , Jones ran across a catwalk into the audience, pulled individual people onto the stage and hinted at a penetration in which they took on the male role. For Living My Life , she wore a skirt that was reminiscent of Oskar Schlemmer's costume designs and brought a revolver to her temple. After the shot was released, the music started. Jones fell to the floor and sang while lying: "You hate me for living my life, you kill me". Quote Jones: “When we first performed it, people didn't clap. They didn't understand what was going on. And then her jaws dropped down. It was a bit of a shock. There wasn't Grace Jones on stage, it was Grace Jones who played Grace Jones, with the help of others who played Grace Jones. Immediately during the show, I thought it was a complete flop, except that no one left the theater. They stayed. They watched ... “The One Man Show was released as a 45-minute video in 1982 and received a Grammy nomination.

Grace Jones had a long-term relationship with Goude, from which son Paulo, born in 1979, emerged. In 1981, the culture magazine Aspects dedicated an article to the singer for the release of the album Nightclubbing and showed an excerpt from the One Man Show , in which Jones I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) by Astor Piazzolla sang. Nightclubbing was voted album of the year 1981 by the English music magazine New Musical Express . Duncan Fallowell published a cover story in Sounds in May 1981 about Jones, Pop of Polymorphic Perversions . In early 1982 Diedrich Diederichsen published the article Sexuality and Truth about Jones in the same magazine. Another article appeared in twen magazine . In 1982 Goude published the book Jungle Fever , in which he laid out the concept and designs for the One Man Show .

Commercial success, film and subsequent albums

Grace Jones (2007)

In 1985 the concept album Slave to the Rhythm, produced by Trevor Horn , was released after the greatest hits release Island Life . The single of the same name reached number 4 in the German single charts and was an international hit. A year earlier (1984) Jones had a leading role alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Destroyer .

In 1985 she played in James Bond 007 - In the Face of Death as May Day at the side of Christopher Walken Bonds opponent. When the film was released, it appeared on the cover of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine . In addition, she appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine . The contribution included a series of photos by Helmut Newton with Jones and Dolph Lundgren , whom the singer met in Sydney in 1981 while on tour in Australia . Another cover followed for the English pop magazine The Face .

In 1985 Jones appeared in an advertisement for the French automaker Citroën designed by Jean-Paul Goude , in which the new CX 2 model was advertised. In 1986 she released the album Inside Story produced by Nile Rodgers . The video for the first single I'm Not Perfect (But Perfect for You) was designed by Keith Haring , who painted Jones' body with graffiti , Andy Warhol and the American psychologist Timothy Leary had guest appearances. In 1988 her song I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) was part of the Frantic soundtrack . In the same year, she aroused a media audience when she attacked the British host Russell Harty on a television show when he turned to another guest. In 1989 the album Bulletproof Heart was released in dance and hip-hop style, in the production of which Chris Stanley, David Cole and Robert Clivilles were involved in addition to Jones . From 1989 on, no new albums were released except for a few single releases.

In the 1990s, Jones married Atila Altaunbay, whom she met in Belgium. Altaunbay came from Turkey. The couple are now separated, but are not divorced.

Other film productions Jones starred in included Vamp from 1986, in which she played the lead role of the vampire Katrina and cited one of her stage shows. In 1987 she played Dennis Hopper's MG-armed secretary in Straight to Hell , along with other musicians, a. a. Elvis Costello . In 1987 Jones played in Siesta , in 1992 in Boomerang with Eddie Murphy . In 2001, she played a hybrid , half man half woman, in the horror film Wolfgirl . In 2007, Jones was in a supporting role in the Falco biography Falco - Damn, We're Still Alive! to see.

In 2002 she sang a duet with Luciano Pavarotti in Modena at the benefit concert Pavarotti & Friends for Angola . In 2008 the album Hurricane was released , which was produced by Ivor Guest. Nick Hooker directed the video for the first single, Corporate Cannibal . The band consisted of the musicians Sly Dunbar , Robbie Shakespeare , Brian Eno , Bruce Woolley, Wally Badarou , Tricky, Wendy and Lisa , Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Mikey "Mao" Chung, Barry Reynolds, John Justin, Martin Slattery, Philip Sheppard , Paulo Goude, Robert Logan, Don-E and Tony Allen. The album was released in Germany on November 7th, 2008 and made it into the top 20 of the album charts. In 2009 Jones returned to the stage with her "Hurricane Tour" and was also seen in Germany: on March 17, 2009, she performed at the Tempodrom in Berlin , on March 25, 2009 in the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt am Main and on March 26 , 2009 . March 2009 in the Philipshalle in Düsseldorf .

In 2012 she sang at the Diamond Jubilee Concert in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's 60th throne jubilee . Slave to the Rhythm . For the entire duration of the performance, she let a hula hoop circle around her waist.

On May 18, 2016, on the eve of her 68th birthday, Grace Jones gave a concert in Cologne's E-Werk .

The work of Grace Jones from a culturally critical , but also from a feminist perspective is sometimes judged to be under-emphasized in the present. As early as the late 1970s, she mocked traditional stereotypes parodistically with her appearances by ironically appropriating them. She also parodied gender stereotypes, for example in the roles of boxers, and in this way added an ironic comment from the point of view of feminist criticism of the iconography of power structures , including in appearances long before it became fashionable in a robot with one from fashion photography and advertising world enriched self-image. From a feminist point of view, it opened up opportunities for public speech to a critical black and female perspective. Her appearances, which are surrounded by an aura of the secret and the strange (English roughly: "Strange", also the leitmotif of I've Seen That Face Before ), are judged as courageous also because of their places, which know after judging feminist criticism dominated the avant-garde art world around Goude, Warhol and Haring, but also the environment of commercial culture.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Portfolio - - - - US109 (20 weeks)
US
1978 Fame - - - - US97 (8 weeks)
US
1979 muse - - - - US156 (7 weeks)
US
1980 Warm leatherette - - - UK45 (2 weeks)
UK 		US132 (10 weeks)
US
1981 Nightclubbing DE8th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)DE 		- - UK35 (19 weeks)
UK 		US32 (20 weeks)
US
1982 Living My Life DE46 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - UK15 (23 weeks)
UK 		US86 (20 weeks)
US
1985 Slave to the Rhythm DE10 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT7 (18 weeks)
AT 		CH9 (11 weeks)
CH 		UK12 (8 weeks)
UK 		US73 (20 weeks)
US
1986 Inside story DE38 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT15 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH30 (1 week)
CH 		UK61
silver
silver

(2 weeks)UK 		US81 (16 weeks)
US
1989 Bulletproof Heart DE55 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
2008 Hurricane DE19 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT23 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH28 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK42 (2 weeks)
UK 		-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 2011: Hurricane - Dub

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1985 Island Life DE22 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT10
gold
gold

(18 weeks)AT 		CH22 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
gold
gold

(30 weeks)UK 		US161 (7 weeks)
US
alternative album title: Dance Collection
2015 Disco - - - UK99 (1 week)
UK 		-
contains the albums Portfolio , Fame and Muse

More compilations

  • 1984: Biggest Hits
  • 1986: Greatest Hits Of
  • 1993: The Ultimate
  • 1996: Island Life 2
  • 1998: Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
  • 2003: Classic Grace Jones
  • 2003: The Best of Grace Jones
  • 2006: The Grace Jones Story (2 CDs)
  • 2006: The Ultimate Collection (box with 3 CDs)
  • 2013: Icon

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Sorry / That's the Trouble
Portfolio 		- - - - US71 (7 weeks)
US
First published: 1976
I need a man
portfolio 		- - - - US83 (6 weeks)
US
First published: 1975
1980 Private Life
Warm Leatherette 		- - - UK17 (8 weeks)
UK 		-
1981 Pull Up to the Bumper
Nightclubbing 		DE26 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - UK53 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
Nightclubbing 		DE16 (24 weeks)
DE 		- CH9 (5 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: 1980
Walking in the Rain
Nightclubbing 		DE67 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
1982 The Apple Stretching / Nipple to the Bottle
Living My Life 		- - - UK50 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
1983 My Jamaican Guy
Living My Life 		- - - UK56 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: 1982
1985 Slave to the Rhythm
Slave to the Rhythm 		DE4 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT7 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH5 (12 weeks)
CH 		UK12 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
1986 Pull Up to the Bumper (Remix) /
La vie en rose (Remix)
Island Life 		- - - UK12 (9 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: 1985
Love Is the Drug
Island Life 		DE57 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - UK35 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: 1980
I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)
Inside Story 		DE39 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH24 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK56 (3 weeks)
UK 		US69 (9 weeks)
US
1987 Party Girl
Inside Story 		DE53 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: 1986
1990 Amado mio
Bulletproof Heart 		DE83 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
2000 Pull Up to the Bumper
Keep On Moving (It's Too Funky in Here) 		- - - UK60 (1 week)
UK 		-
Grace Jones vs. Funk star De Luxe

More singles

  • 1976: I'll Find My Way to You / Again and Again
  • 1977: La vie en rose
  • 1978: Do or Die
  • 1978: Autumn Leaves Part. 1 & 2 (Les feuilles mortes)
  • 1978: Comme un oiseau qui s'envole
  • 1978: On I Ever Gonna Fall in Love in NY City
  • 1978: Fame
  • 1979: On Your Knees
  • 1980: Pars
  • 1980: A Rolling Stone
  • 1980: breakdown
  • 1980: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
  • 1980: Warm Leatherette
  • 1981: Feel Up
  • 1981: Demolition Man
  • 1981: Use Me
  • 1981: Pull Up to the Bumper
  • 1982: Nipple to the Bottle
  • 1982: Unlimited Capacity for Love
  • 1983: Living My Life
  • 1983: Cry Now, Laugh Later
  • 1985: Jones the Rhythm
  • 1986: Grace Jones Muscle Mix
  • 1986: Re-Mix Re-Mask
  • 1986: Crush
  • 1987: Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician
  • 1989: Love on Top of Love (Killer Kiss)
  • 1990: Megamix
  • 1992: 7 Day Weekend
  • 1993: Evilmainya
  • 1993: Sex Drive
  • 1996: Love Bites
  • 2003: Fly to the Cloud ( William U feat. Grace)
  • 2004: Clandestine Affair (with Tricky )
  • 2005: I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) - Hell Interpretations (with DJ Hell )
  • 2008: Williams' Blood
  • 2008: Corporate Cannibal
  • 2009: Well Well Well
  • 2010: Love You to Life
  • 2011: Dancefloor ( Brigitte Fontaine feat. Grace Jones)
  • 2014: Me! I disconnect from you

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Silver record icon.svg silver Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 250,000 musikindustrie.de
Austria (IFPI) Austria (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 25,000 ifpi.at
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 160,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg 3 × gold3 -

Filmography

  • 1973: Gordon's Revenge (Gordon's War)
  • 1976: Caliber 38 right between the eyes (Quelli della calibro 38)
  • 1976: ham with egg (Attention les yeux!)
  • 1979: Army of Lovers - Revolt of the Perverts
  • 1981: Deadly Vengeance
  • 1981: Astro show A Game with the Stars (TV series, an episode)
  • 1984: Conan the Destroyer (Conan the Destroyer)
  • 1985: James Bond 007 - A View to a Kill
  • 1986: Vamp
  • 1987: Straight to Hell - Go to Hell (Straight to Hell)
  • 1987: Siesta
  • 1992: Boomerang
  • 1995: Cyber ​​Bandits
  • 1998: McCinsey's Island - An Animal Duo (McCinsey's Island)
  • 1999: Palmer's Pickup - A Crazy Trip (Palmer's Pick Up)
  • 1999: Beastmaster ( BeastMaster , TV series, an episode)
  • 2001: Wolfgirl (Wolf Girl)
  • 2001: Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
  • 2008: Falco - Damn it, we're still alive!
  • 2015: Gutterdämmerung

Awards and nominations

documentary

In September 2017, the documentary film Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, directed by Sophie Fiennes, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival . He has been in German cinemas since January 25, 2018. It was released on DVD / Blu-ray on March 9, 2018. The film title is derived from the Jamaican slang for the red light in recording studios ( Bloodlight) and the name of a type of flatbread ( Bami) .

Autobiography

Literature on Grace Jones (selection)

Web links

Commons : Grace Jones  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs . Gallery Books, New York 2015, p. 1, ISBN 978-1-4767-6507-5 .
  2. ↑ 2008 article on the death of Robert Winston Jones on syracuse.com
  3. ^ Grace Jones, Still a Slave to the Rhythm , The Independent , June 18, 2008.
  4. ↑ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs . Gallery Books, New York 2015, pp. 132-134, ISBN 978-1-4767-6507-5 .
  5. ↑ The craziest nightclub in the world. Studio 54 in New York . In: stern , No. 16, April 13, 1978.
  6. ↑ Yvonne Schymura: Attack on the men's press Spiegel Online, July 12, 2013.
  7. ↑ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs . Gallery Books, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-4767-6507-5 , pp. 204, 205: “Disco had been an accident, but within a couple of years I had released my three disco albums - Portfolio, Fame and Muse - produced by Tom Moulton. They were becoming his vision more than mine… I was becoming the decoration, and I was getting bored with that. "
  8. ^ Grace Jones: A One Man Show Full . Video from 1981 on vimeo.com, from minute 35
  9. ↑ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs. Gallery Books, New York 2015, pp. 263–267: “ At first, when we performed it live, people didn't clap. They didn't understand what the fuck was going on. And then jaws dropped. There was a slight state of shock ... It wasn't Grace Jones onstage: it was Grace Jones playing Grace Jones, with the help of other people playing Grace Jones. My immediate reaction as I was doing the show was that it was a complete flop, exept no one left the theater. They stayed. They watched…. ”
  10. ↑ Grace Jones: A One Man Show. Directed by Jean Paul Goude. Produced by Eddie Babbage. New York Sequences: Michael Shamberg. 1982 Island Pictures Ltd.
  11. ↑ Duncan Fallowell: Grace Jones. Pop the polymorphic perversions. In: Sounds , May 5/81, pp. 40–42.
  12. ↑ See: Diedrich Diederichsen, Sexuality and Truth. In: Sounds . January 1/82, pp. 26-28.
  13. ↑ Grace Jones, Superman . In: twen . No. 12, December 81, pp. 26-29.
  14. ↑ Jean-Paul Goude : Jungle Fever. Quartet Books Limited, London 1982, pp. 102-145, ISBN 0-7043-2339-7 (with numerous illustrations).
  15. ↑ Cover Story: Fighting Her Own Battles. Grace Jones by Andy Warhol & Andre Leon Talley. In: Interview . October 1984, pp. 54-61, cover.
  16. ↑ Playboy Magazin , No. 7, July 1985, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Munich 1985, pp. 52–57.
  17. ^ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs , Gallery Books, New York 2015, p. 251, ISBN 978-1-4767-6507-5 .
  18. ↑ The Face No. 69, January 1986.
  19. ^ Citroën advertisement from 1985 with Grace Jones on youtube.com
  20. ↑ Grace Jones: I'll Never Write My Memoirs. Gallery Books, New York 2015, pp. 335–339.
  21. ↑ "Grace Jones is back. We are ruled by women ” , photo gallery, FAZ , October 27, 2008.
  22. ^ "Grace Jones - the singing predator" , Tagesspiegel , March 16, 2009.
  23. ↑ Philipp Kressmann: No doubt about the myth: Grace Jones in Cologne. (No longer available online.) In: Spex . May 20, 2016, archived from the original on July 2, 2016 ; Retrieved July 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  24. ↑ a b Francesca T. Royster: Sounding Like a No-No. Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era . University of Michigan Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-472-05179-3 , Chapter: "Feeling Like a Woman, Looking Like a Man, Sounding Like a No-No": Grace Jones and the Performance of "Strange" in the Post-Soul Moment , p. 142–166 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  25. ↑ Steven Shaviro: Grace Jones & Nick Hooker. Corporate cannibal . In: Bernd Kracke, Marc Ries (Ed.): Expanded Senses. New sensuality and sensory work in late modernism. New Conceptions of the Sensual, Sensorial and the Work of the Senses in Late Modernity . transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3362-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  26. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  27. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  28. ↑ Review
  29. ^ Lutz Carstens: TV feature film . No. 2 - 2018 . TV Spielfilm Verlag GmbH Hamburg, January 12, 2018, ISSN  0938-8729 , p. 194 .
  30. ^ Frank Sawatzki: Musikexpress . Issue 03/2018. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin, February 15, 2018, ISSN  1618-5129 , p. 48-53 .
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Grace Beverly (full name); Mendoza, Grace (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican singer, actress and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Spanish Town near Kingston