Rickie Lee Jones, Manchester

Rickie Lee Jones biography

Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards. Rickie Lee Jones is a singer songwriter whose style leans on jazz and pop/R&B timing and personification. Jones settled in LA at the age of nineteen, doing the classic waiting tables stuff until she landed a recording contract with Warners. Her self-titled debut album in 1979 was a big success, as was the single, Chuck E.'s in Love, about her musician friend Chuck E. Weiss. At the 1980 Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy for Best New Artist, and also received four more nominations: for Record of the Year; Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female; and Song of the Year (for "Chuck E.'s in Love"). While none of her subsequent recordings achieved the same level of commercial success, Jones has continued releasing critically acclaimed albums that have explored a variety of sonic terrain from jazz standards to trip hop influenced works. 1979: Rickie Lee Jones – Warner Bros. 1981: Pirates – Warner Bros. 1983: Girl at Her Volcano (EP) – Warner Bros. 1984: The Magazine – Warner Bros. 1989: Flying Cowboys - Geffen 1991: Pop Pop - Geffen 1993: Traffic From Paradise - Geffen 1995: Naked Songs - Reprise 1997: Ghostyhead – Warner Bros. 2000: It's Like This - Artemis 2001: Live at Red Rocks - Artemis 2003: The Evening of My Best Day – V2 2005: Duchess of Coolsville - Rhino 2007: Sermon On Exposition Boulevard - New West 2009: Balm in Gilead

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