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| Birth Name(s) : Joscelyn Eve Stoker |
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Singer, songwriter, actress |
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Full Joss Stone Biography
Joss Stone (born Joscelyn Eve Stoker on 11 April 1987) is an English soul, R&B, and blues singer, songwriter, and occasional actress who emerged to fame in late 2003 with her debut album, The Soul Sessions, which was certified triple platinum by the BPI, and was announced as one of the twelve albums on the shortlist of Mercury Prize nominees. Her second album, the also-triple-platinum-selling Mind, Body & Soul, topped the albums chart in the United Kingdom for one week and spawned the hit single "You Had Me", which made the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. Both album and single each received a nomination for Grammy Awards in 2005. Throughout her career, Stone has sold over ten million albums worldwide, and has won two BRIT Awards and one Grammy Award. She also ventured in the film business, making her acting debut in the fantasy adventure film Eragon, released in December 2006, as a witch named Angela.
After achieving critical acclaim with The Soul Sessions, Stone recorded her second album—this time made mostly of songs co-written by her—, Mind, Body & Soul, released on 28 September 2004. She was quoted to say this was her real debut. "I think my singing is so much better on this album", she says. It proved to be an even bigger success than her previous album, as it debuted at number one in the UK (breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the UK Albums Chart, a record previously held by Avril Lavigne) and just missed the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200, after peaking at number eleven. The lead single, "You Had Me", became her first top ten hit in the UK and was also a hit worldwide. Follow-up singles "Right to Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" both made the top forty, and "Don't Cha Wanna Ride", the top twenty. "Spoiled" landed just outside the top fifty of U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at number fifty-four.
In March 2005, Stone was named the spokesperson for the megastore Gap, replacing Sarah Jessica Parker. She recorded two songs for its commercial—a cover of Ray Charles' 1958 "Night Time Is the Right Time" (retitled as "The Right Time") and a cover of The Beach Boys' 1966 "God Only Knows". By that time, rumours circulated about her being dropped from the campaign because she was living with then-twenty-five-year-old songwriter/producer Beau Dozier (son of producer Lamont Dozier) in Los Angeles, California while she was only seventeen. However, this was later denied.
Stone joined Band Aid 20 on 14 November 2004 to benefit Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The group, consisting of such luminaries as Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin and U2 lead singer Bono, re-recorded the 1984 song "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written by Band Aid organisers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Stone, born two years after the release of the original single, wasn't initially aware of who Bob Geldof was. The media gleefully reported that she repeatedly referred to him as Bob Gandalf. Despite some criticism, the single became the UK's biggest seller of 2004 as well as the Christmas number one.
Stone was nominated for three 2005 BRIT Awards, of which she won two—"British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act". She performed "Angels" with Robbie Williams during the ceremony, which took place at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London on 9 February 2005. She also received three nominations for the 2005 Grammy Awards—"Best New Artist", "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "You Had Me", and "Best Pop Vocal Album" for Mind, Body & Soul—, where she sang barefoot on stage with rock performer Melissa Etheridge, in tribute to the late blues-rock singer Janis Joplin. Their performance of "Cry Baby/Piece of My Heart" was released as a single, and, through the aid of strong digital downloads, became Stone's first single to enter the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, when it debuted and peaked at number thirty-two.
Stone collaborated with jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and blues singer-guitarist Jonny Lang on a cover of U2's 1988 song "When Love Comes to Town", from Hancock's 2005 album Possibilities. She also collaborated with Lemar on his third studio album The Truth About Love, on the track "Anniversary".
At the 2007 Grammy Awards, Stone shared a win of the award for "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for her collaboration with Sly & the Family Stone, John Legend, and Van Hunt on "Family Affair".
Canadian singer-guitarist and photographer Bryan Adams recently photographed Stone for the Hear the World magazine, a quarterly culture and lifestyle publication dedicated to the topic of hearing.
Stone caused controversy at the 2007 BRIT Awards ceremony, on 14 February, when presenting the award for "British Male Solo Artist" (won by James Morrison). Speaking with a faux American accent and walking around the podium, she gave a speech in which she asked the audience to send "big love" to Robbie Williams, who had been the target of earlier jokes made by host Russell Brand. Williams had been reported as going into rehab that same week. As her speech continued, she made remarks about Brand, implying that he was heading for rehab himself (while singing a passage of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab"). Brand stated that he was "a bit worried about that poor cow" at the close of the show.
The BRIT Awards appearance was the beginning of a string of incidents that the UK press reported as examples of Stone's increasingly erratic behaviour. |
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