GRACE JONES: NOTES
To call Grace Jones a singer is a misnomer. No criticism intended, but Grace can't really sing; you needn't remove either of your shoes to count the notes in her range, and pitch isn't at all an applicable term; her timbre can best be described as gruff.
GRACE JONES: NOTES
JIM FELDMAN
To call Grace Jones a singer is a misnomer.
No criticism intended, but Grace can't really sing; you needn't remove either of your shoes to count the notes in her range, and pitch isn't at all an applicable term; her timbre can best be described as gruff. To some degree, the repeated comparisons to Marlene Dietrich are fitting,both Grace and Dietrich can effect a detached vocal stance, and Grace has often wrapped herself in the guise of a French chanteuse,indeed, her low-key disco version of "La Vie En Rose" (off her first album, Portfolio) was an eccentric and appreciative classic. But detachment and stolid phrasing are only starting points from which, particularly onstage, Grace launches her attack. Threatening, intimidating, teasing, sneering, supremely self-confident or arrogant (depending on your point of view), Grace unleashes wave after wave of overwhelming attitude in all directions. Grace, on lead attitude.
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