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Grace Jones

Few artists of any genre could claim a style as individual or a personality as extreme as the occasionally eccentric Grace Jones. If her fame encompasses modelling, film stardom, gossip columns and celebrity partying, it's her colourful gifts as a performer - especially in the field of club and dance music - that make her a key figure. The daughter of clergyman and politician, she first hit the headlines as a model, becoming a darling of the New York social scene and a muse to artist Andy Warhol, before moving into music in 1977 with a powerful series of dance records that made h...