SHE'S BACK!

I have been waiting for this for nearly 2 decades! 

With her brand new Hurricane recording, Grace Jones, tosses aside the clubbing hits that launched her onto the dance floor of Studio 54. The vibe that pervades this album is mostly dub. La Jones's latest whirlwind tears up the bass and throws in both a sliver of rock and ever-so-fashionable ska. The work that was begun with Alex Sadkin and Chris Blackwell on Warm Leatherette is taken one step further with Hurricane.

Her Royal Graceness is back!

This past summer she appeared on stage at the Meltdown Festival in London wearing only a corset and a thong  (not many 60-year-old women - or men - could pull that off, thank you very much!) and some outrageous headgear from  renowned  milliner Philip Treacy. It was as if she had never been out of limelight; the crowd went wild!

Grace Jones is a contralto vocalist.  While her image became more notable than her voice, she is in fact a highly stylized vocalist. She sings in two modes: her monotone speak-sing as in songs like "Private Life", "Walking in the Rain", and "The Apple Stretching", and in an almost soprano mode in such songs as "La Vie en Rose" and "Slave to the Rhythm". - She actually recorded  2 albums in the 1990's - but released neither of them. She  started recording  Hurricane early in 2007, so it was over a year in the making. Her voice is still flawless and her music still a melange of reggae-meets-disco-meets-ultra cool industrial-age nightclub.  It still has that timeless groove. With  her haughty delivery and that mix of steel menace and velvet undertones, it still works!

Grace was recently asked if she had any regrets about her very public story replete with sex (remember Dolph Lundgren?) , drugs, rock 'n' roll....to which she said, "Oh God, NO!  It's the abuse that is bad for you, not the use."

Lucky people  outside the US will get the amazing
opportunity to see Grace Jones perform live in 2009!

Watch the video, listen to tracks from Hurricane, and be her friend, on MySpace!