Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose (1978)

Grace Beverly Jones OJ (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American model, singer, songwriter, and actress. In 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2008, she was honored with a Q Idol Award. Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s and has been an inspiration for artists including Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Solange, Lorde, Róisín Murphy, Brazilian Girls, Nile Rodgers, Santigold, and Basement Jaxx. In 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 40th greatest dance club artist of all time.

Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was 13. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features.

Beginning in 1977, Jones embarked on a music career, securing a record deal with Island Records and initially becoming a star of New York City's Studio 54-centered disco scene. In the early 1980s, she moved toward a new wave style that drew on reggae, funk, post-punk, and pop music, frequently collaborating with both the graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude and the musical duo Sly & Robbie. Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981), and Slave to the Rhythm (1985). She scored Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with "Pull Up to the Bumper", "I've Seen That Face Before", "Private Life", and "Slave to the Rhythm". In 1982, she released the music video collection A One Man Show, directed by Goude.

Jones appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1984, she made her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill as May Day. In 1986, she played a vampire in Vamp, and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 Eddie Murphy film Boomerang. She appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl. For her work in Conan the Destroyer, A View to a Kill, and Vamp, she was nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

[markthrasher]

Such an amazing and frigging cool version. Anyway she performed it in this period is dynamic. It should have all the elements of this transition period between disco and new wave pop

[jbc]

Nice version of this lovely tune. Grace has done it justice

[ozanluna]

Another Disco Queen...Miss GRACE JONES

[AuntMeiDumplings]

Grace Today Grace Tomorrow Grace Forever

[giselemarcianolourenco]

Que música linda. Não era nascida nessa época, mas sempre a escutava na rádio Antena 1

[Viktors]

Brilliant, got the 12 inch version...love it

[tepeclara]

Mujer trascendida, única, bella e inigualable... Larga vida Miss Jones

[dreasbn]

I just remember the second part of that performance… wonder why😂 love her rendition especially the 7 minute version. It’s one of my 87 year old mums favorite tracks.. she also loves a German language version from the just as much…

[cineblogs]

Que volumen de musikladen pertenece este, esta cancion es simplemente romántica

[dixonpinfold]

Perhaps the best part of Frantic was Harrison Ford and that French actress dancing to this at a disco in Paris in the middle of their search for his kidnapped wife.

[SuperMan-xyui]

Those bracelets have been dear to her because she wears them to this day. I wonder if the dress is Halston couture?