Singer - Grace Jones as May Day in James Bond film A View to a Kill - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Grace Jones as May Day in A View to a Kill (1985)
• Publisher:  Danjaq, c.2012
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Grace Jones ^[1] (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican singer, actress and model.^[2]

She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica^[3] and raised by her grandparents. When she was thirteen she and her siblings moved to her parents' home in Syracuse, New York. Jones started out as a model, initially in New York state, then in Paris, working for Yves St. Laurent, Claude Montana, and Kenzo Takada, and appearing on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Stern working with Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer.

In 1977, Jones secured a record deal with Island Records. In 1980 Jones, with the aid of Compass Point All Stars moved into New Wave, scoring Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart, with ""Pull Up to the Bumper"", ""I've Seen That Face Before"", ""Private Life"", ""Slave to the Rhythm"" and ""I'm Not Perfect"". Her albums include Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981) and Slave to the Rhythm (1985).

In America she appeared in some low-budget films in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her work as an actress in mainstream film began in the 1984 fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill. In 1986 she played a vampire in Vamp, and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 film Boomerang with Eddie Murphy. She appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film, Wolf Girl.

In 1983, Jones's One Man Show was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long-Form Music Video next year.^[4] For her work in Conan the Destroyer, A View to a Kill, and Vamp, she was nominated Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress. In 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2008, she was honoured with a Q Idol Award. Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s^[5] and has been an inspiration for artists, including Annie Lennox,^[6] Lady Gaga, Rihanna,^[7][8] Brazilian Girls^[9] Róisín Murphy,^[10] Nile Rodgers,^[11] Santigold,^[12] and Basement Jaxx.^[13

Beverly Grace Jones was born in 1948 ^[2] in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie and Robert W. Jones, who was a politician and Apostolic clergyman.^[14] Jones and her siblings were raised by grandparents, as her parents were working in the United States. Jones had a strict upbringing under the influence of Jamaica's Pentecostal church and went to church three times a week. Both sides of her family were religious; there were many bishops in her family, her grandfather, step-grandfather, and her brother, Noel, also became a bishop.

As a child, Jones was shy; she had only one school-friend, and was teased by her classmates for her ""skinny frame"", but excelled at sports and found solace in the nature of Jamaica.^[15]

When she was thirteen, she and her siblings moved to Syracuse, New York to join her parents.^[16] Jones continued her schooling, then enrolled at Syracuse University where she studied to be a Spanish major.^[17] Halfway through college, Jones was approached by a drama professor who proposed that she work with him in a play he was putting on in Philadelphia; Jones left with him.^[17] When Jones was eighteen she moved back to New York. She signed on as a model with Wilhelmina Modelling agency. and took every opportunity to audition for parts in plays and films. She moved to Paris in 1970.^[17][18] The Parisian fashion scene was receptive to Jones' unusual androgynous, bold, dark-skinned appearance. Yves St. Laurent, Claude Montana, and Kenzo Takada hired her for runway modelling, and she appeared on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Stern working with Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer.^[19] Jones also modelled for Azzedine Alaia, and was frequently photographed promoting their line. While modelling in Paris, she shared an apartment with Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange. Hall and Jones frequented Club Sept, one of Paris's most popular gay clubs of the 1970s and '80s, and socialised with Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld.^[20]

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