Grace Jones - Island Life (Greatest Hits)
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Legendary for her looks, attitude and amazing talents.
Grace Jones took the universe by storm in 1977 with her musical debut “Portfolio” which included her gold selling single La Vie En Rose. After three disco releases she changed her image with a little help from her then husband Jean Paul Goude. The first result came in 1980 in titled “Warm Leatherette” and it was a hit, finally Grace got the acclaim that she’s so longly deserved.
Her amazing covers hit right between the eyes; Private Life is a perfect odd couple tune that Grace adapted with full capability and her rendition of The Normals Warm Leatherette was something comepletely new.
A great addition to this “Best Of” cd is the “Thorngren Remix” of Love Is the Drug which has not been available anywhere else.
Her perhaps biggest hit album came in 1981, titled: Nightclubbing. A compilation of various of covers, everything from David Bowie to Sting. But despite Grace’s amazing talents as an intepretor her own stuff was just as stunning, an example of this can be heard on her biggest chart success: Pull Up to the Bumper. The third Dunbar/ Shakespeare collaboration arrived in 1983 dubbed: Living My Life, which ought to be last collaboration bewteen the couple and Grace. This time around Grace was fully involved in everything, writing and even eventually co-producing each song on the album. Living My Life stapled Grace as a fully grown-up star My Jamaican Guy is closer to Reggae than any of her previous work and the 7” single of Living My Life helped Grace to become the star-of-music videos.
After three years of playing movie parts Grace put together a biography titled Slave to the Rhythm which still sounds as freash as it did then. Legendary for her looks, attitude and amazing talents.
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