Biography
Grace Jones - Jamaica singer, model and actress, which has become an icon of style and queen of secular parties of the 1970s. Photographs of dark amazon, glorified by eccentric actions, shocking outfits and extravagant hairstyle, Ponglie tabloids. The vocalist won success, boldly mixing disco styles and punk agression.
Andy Warhol Muse, glamorous and militant, it remained a media to decades. Her counterfeit learned millions of fans, and androgic appearance excited gossip and rumors.
And Grace Jones for several years was a beloved woman of the Nordic Blond Dolf Lundgrena. His star lit it. After all, everyone who appeared next to Grace has already deserved attention: falling into the halo of her attention, the person automatically attracted the views of the paparazzi and fans.
Childhood and youth
Beverly Grace Jones born in the midst of the spring of 1948 in the south-east of Jamaica, in spanish-tauna. Father Jones - Church Preacher, Mom - Politician. Parents, leaving children on the care of her grandparents, went to work in America.
According to Grace Jones, the upbringing was strict. Grandfather of the grandchildren of grandchildren rods, but most of all came to her. The Jones family belonged to the Pentecostal Church and attended the temple three times a week. Praded, Grandfather and Brother Noel - Bishops.
Grace grew up a quiet and modest girl, different from the peers of high growth (adolescent reached 1.75 meters) and humbered. Odnoklassniki teased Jones "skinny stick", mocked. The girl had the only girlfriend, and the outfit was a sport.
At the age of 13, the future model and vocalist moved with relatives to the city of Syracuse (Syracuse), which in the heart of New York. Here Grace Jones graduated from school and became a student of a local university. Chose the Linguistic Faculty, taught Spanish.
A professor of drama was interested in the girl with an exotic appearance, offering work in Philadelphia. So the creative biography of Grace Jones began. In 18 Jamaican beauty found himself in New York, where her grace Panthers and an unusual face noted the agent. Jones signed a contract with the model agency Wilhelmina Modelling Agency.
In 22, the mannequin moved to France: at the Paris podium, a black model with androging appearance was noted by Materials of the Fashion-Industry Yves Saint-Laurent, Claude Montana and Kenzo Takada. Grace Jones branded clothing represented on open shots, Elle and Vogue covers.
Soon Grace demonstrated the fashionable developments of the fashion designers of Helmut Newton, Gi Burden and Hans Fair. In the Paris period of life, the model got acquainted with the Guru of the Fashion World Karl Lagerfeld and Georgio Armani.
In Paris, the girl divided the apartment with actresses Jessica Lang and Jerry Hall and became a frequenter of the scandalous gay club Club Sept.
Music
Music Career Grace Jones started in New York. The girl who possessed the "border" appearance of a woman and a man, made a bet on gay clubs and a homosexual image. And did not lose. Soon she put a signature under the contract proposed by the label "Icelands Records".
Jones came up with the Experimental Producer of Tom Molton provided by the firm. With his help Grace released the first albums. In the debut disk, called "Portfolio" (Portfolio), hit the songs from the Broadway musicals, hit Edith Piaf "Life in Pink Color" (La Vie En Rose) and club hit "I need a man" (I Need A Man).
Nightclubbing album, published in 1981, became a turning point in the musical career of the Jamaican vocalist. He marked a new direction and turned Grace Jones in a world of magnitude. The singer smoothly moved from disco-sound to reggae and rock styles. Musical critics adopted innovation favorably, the army of fans multiplied. The disk included songs written for Grace Jones Bill Withers, Iggy Pop and Astor Piazzolla.
The album composition "I saw this face before" (I'Ve Seen That Face Before), more famous for Libertango, written for Jones Argentine composer Piazzolla, became a successful hit: the song broke through the top of the charts, a video appeared on her. In general, the album made Grace Jones on the peak of Glory and came out in the top 5 of four countries.
The following year, a vocalist presented a new album, songs for which were written together with Barry Reynolds. The name of the collection - "Live My Life" (Living My Life). One composition for Grace is now the stars of the international scale - wrote sting. With tourists of a vocalist, the countries of America and Europe, collecting Achlagi at concerts.
In the 1980s Grace Jones gave music albums "Slave Rhythm", "Island Life)," Island Story "," Inside Story "and" Bulletproof Heart). In the 1990s, the singer presented the Ultimate disk (The Ultimate). Grace's latest album pleased with Melomanan in 2008: the collection was called "Hurricane" (Hurricane).
Grace Jones made a successful career model, vocalist and actress. And let it in 17 films, she starred in episodes or cameo, but they were forever remembered to the audience. The most bright acting talent manifested itself in the paintings "Conan-Destroyel", "Caution - Eyes!" And "Vamp". The only major role got Johns in the tape of the director John Glen "A view of the murder." Grace appeared on the screen in Roger Moore and Christopher Waken.
Actress and annoying failures occurred in career. In the late 1980s, she was presented with "Golden Malina" for the role in the picture "Siesta".
For the stars of the new century Grace Jones remained an icon of style and an example for imitation. Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Annie Lennox, Nia Rogers fell into captivity of her charm. Androgine star style, angular clothing and square haircuts committed a sexual revolution in the 1980s Fashion Industry.
But in 2013, the Jamaican celebrity, which turned 50, fell into the top 50 magazine "Gardian", which made a list of well-dressed women.
In 2015, the star published memories, calling the book "I will never write memoirs."
Personal life
Grace Jones visited twice in marriage. The first spouse, with whom the singer in 1989 went under the crown, was producer Chris Stanley. But the relationship was broken, and the couple ruined the relationship. In 1996, the star married the bodyguard Atil Altonbey. But this union collapsed.
In the life of Grace, the fashion photographer and the stylist Jean-Paul Goude (Jean-Paul Goude) played a big role. He came up with androgic style, haircut and clothing for a woman. They did not make a relationship, but it was in this love alliance that the only son Grace Jones was born - Paulo.
In 1990, the singer got acquainted with the actor from Denmark Sven-Ola Torsen. The broken romance lasted until 2007, but also not overgrown in marriage.
The four-year-old Roman with actor Dolf Lundgren remained in the memory of fans of the booby Diva. No one who does not famous Sweded with wheat color of the hair star met in 1980 in the Sydney Club, where Dolph, a university student, worked as a guard. Grace was already a celebrity. The Lundgren bodyguard responded to her proposal.
On a 23-year-old handsome girl near the 32-year-old dark-skinned singer, girls looked around, but Grace looked fearlessly with his heart. The pair contrasted and externally, and in the style of life. Jones adored clubs, noisy gay parties with naked dancers and drugs, and Dolph visited the gym twice a day.
Later, the actor admitted that he loved and respected Grace, but he felt next to the star uncomfortable, "Boy on the blisters." Despite disagreements, the novel singer with Lundgren was full of passion. He left fans of hundreds of beautiful photos, including a photo session of the magazine "Playboy", where the naked athletic bodies of the couple called Furore.
The first work in the cinema - the episode in the Bondian "A view of the murder" - became a turning point in the career of the actor, and he received it thanks to Jones. The next role turned out to be the main thing: Lundgrena offered to play "Rocky IV". After the release of the film Dolph, like Grace, became a star. He moved to Los Angeles, closer to the "Dream factory", and Jones remained in New York. Glory separated a couple.
Grace Jones now
In the fall of 2017, a documentary belt about the life of the icon of the 1980s "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" came to the screens. The painting about Grace shot Sophie Bains.
In the film, music fragments alternate with documentary frames from the private archive of the star. The director tried to look at the "mask" Grace Jones. The name of the ribbon comes from the Yamaican word "Bloodlight" - a red light that flashes when there is a record in the studio. And "BAMI" means "bread", "the essence of everyday life."
Grace Jones admitted that he was afraid of the invasion of the director in a personal space, but Bains managed not to break comfort and do not cross the border.
Discography
- 1977 - "Portfolio"
- 1978 - "FAME"
- 1979 - "MUSE"
- 1980 - "Warm Leatherette"
- 1981 - "NightClubbing"
- 1982 - "Living My Life"
- 1985 - "Slave to the rhythm"
- 1985 - ISLAND LIFE
- 1986 - "Inside Story"
- 1989 - "Bulletproof Heart"
- 1993 - "The Ultimate"
- 2008 - "Hurricane"