The U.S. soul singer Sharon Jones has died at the age of 60 years. You’ve lost on Friday their heroic struggle against pancreatic cancer, it said on its website.
Known Sharon Jones was from 2002, several albums with the Dap Kings and their energetic Live performances. The singer died in the circle of your family and friends, it was said, the Dap Kings were on their side.
Already, in 2013, returned to Jones after a first cancer diagnosis back on the stage. In total, they made seven albums with the independent Label Daptone Records, the last of a 2015 with the title “It’s a Holiday Soul Party”. The powerful and haunting voice well-known Soul Star was also nominated for Grammys.
The career, the singer won a late to travel. The leap from Background singer to the front, woman on 4 made. May 1956 in Augusta, Georgia-born Jones only at the age of 40 years. Desco Records released their debut Single “Damn it’s hot” in 1996.
Previously worked for Jones as a prison warden and a security Guard. Her Childhood was marked by the separation between Black and White in the southern States of the USA and, later, the tensions and violence in the New York city borough of Brooklyn. Their first musical she gained experience in Gospel choirs.
in the summer of this year, you went in spite of the side effects of their chemotherapy on Tour with their latest Single, “I’m still here” in which she describes her life experiences. To go “out on the stage, this is my therapy,” said at the time of the “New York Times”. “You have to see life as it is. No one knows how long I still have. But I am now strong, and wants to continue."
For large record labels and their Manager had left, never much – she remained independent. “For you I was too small, too fat, too black and too old,” she said about the beginnings of her career.
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