Jamaica’s Minister of Tradition & Gender & Leisure and Sports activities Olivia Grange with actress / singer Grace Jones and reggae icon King Yellowman.
A Jamaica-born diva is headed again to Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Grace Jones is booked to headline the Blue Observe Jazz Pageant on Could 27 and be a part of Janelle Monae at Prospect Park’s Lena Horne Bandshell on June 9.
Celebrating her 77th birthday on Could 19, the fashion-forward singer/songwriter/actress/mannequin/ acclaimed “wonderful” by fashionistas, music insiders, and movie buffs, plans to rejoice Brooklyn together with her distinctive, unapologetic efficiency.
Typically described as energetic, androgynous, and provocative, the Spanish City native prompted close to hysteria when she final carried out in Kings County at Commodore Barry Park.
She additionally created a crowd-pleasing frenzy at an outside screening in a Harlem Park of her documentary — “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami.”
The movie, chronicling her emergence from humble beginnings to worldwide trendsetter, broadened her profile to generations who might need been unaware of her popularity for delivering spectacle on the unique, hot-spot Studio 54 nightclub.
Since these early years, the at all times uncompromising diva has remodeled herself to draw new audiences, like a Phoenix.
In 1985, Jones portrayed Could Day within the 14th installment of a James Bond movie titled “A View To To A Kill.” Jones rivaled actor Roger Moore for field workplace billing.
She later adopted an analogous playbook co-starring with Eddie Murphy in “Boomerang.”
When disco music dominated radio playlists, Jones etched her signature on the music charts with a membership hit titled “Pull Up To The Bumper.”
Then, trendsetters acknowledged that Jones is perhaps a multi-talented, no-holds-barred entertainer. For sure, Jones by no means deserted her principal attract as a mannequin to mimic.
Her basic options, inimitable type, savvy trend sense, fluency in French, and iconic persona might discover longtime buddies and newfound followers ready inside and outdoors to check their senses with a legend who is aware of how, when, why, and the place.
Jones can also be booked to headline the Montreux Jazz Pageant in Switzerland on July 12.
No Reggae billed for Central Park Summerstage in 2025
The standard parade of reggae music lovers to Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield through the Jamaica independence weekend should discover a new venue to revel. This yr’s Summerstage lineup reveals that reggae isn’t on the calendar this summer season. The annual marathon VP Information showcase has been nixed for the 2025 free live performance season. No official clarification was issued about the Caribbean showcase. Nevertheless, billed through the timeframe is a hip hop session emceed by Ralph McDaniels, host of Video Musicbox. Rapper Rakim and a slew of respected names are billed for Aug. 9.
For particulars, test the Metropolis Parks internet portal.
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