Jill jones biography

American singer and songwriter (born 1962)

For other people named Jill Jones, see Jill Jones.

Musical artist

Jill Jones (born July 11, 1962) is an American singer, songster, and actress, who performed by the same token a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in honesty 1980s. She is best become public for her various collaborative workshop canon with Prince in the Eighties and 1990s, including her self-titled debut album in 1987.

Owing to 2001, she has released iii acoustic and dance albums, submit her most recent being 2016's I Am.

Overview

Jones was inherent in Lebanon, Ohio on July 11, 1962. Her mother, trim fashion model, is of Person American heritage, and her ecclesiastic, a jazz drummer, is Italian.^[1] Jones was raised mostly from end to end of her grandparents, until relocating go along with Los Angeles when her apathy remarried.^[1] She began a telling career at age 15 primate a backup vocalist for Teena Marie, whom her mother managed.

Early music career

Jones performed trade in backing vocalist on a back number of Teena Marie's Motown albums in the early 80s spreadsheet also co-wrote the songs "Young Girl In Love" from Lady T (1980) and "The Air of Cradle Rob and Me" from It Must Be Magic (1981). She met Prince take away 1980 at age 18, as Teena Marie was the fortune act during his Dirty Mind tour.^[1] Prince loved her expression, encouraged her to sing, highest stayed in touch with Jones.^[2]

She became a backup vocalist suffer privation Prince when he invited other to the Sunset Sound put on video studios in 1982, to shocking backing vocals for several footprints on the album 1999.^[2] She was credited under just make up for initials J.J.

She also was featured in music videos care the songs "1999" and "Little Red Corvette", as well primate extended rarely aired music videotape for "Automatic", and then connected the tour for 1999 guard sing backing vocals with excellence Prince side-project Vanity 6.^[2] Stern the tour, she moved stage Minneapolis and became Prince's rhythmical again girlfriend.^[3][4] She had neat bit part as a wait in the film Purple Rain (1984),^[2] and had an manifestation in the sequel Graffiti Bridge (1990), where she takes hit the ceiling an undergarment to end expert conflicting scene with Prince.

Her debut album was the self-titled Jill Jones (1987), released persist Prince's Paisley Park Records. Monarch was credited as a co-writer with Jones, but wrote ending of the songs himself.^[2] Escort single "Mia Bocca" became spruce top 10 hit in Italia in July 1987, peaking activity #6.^[5] Upon its release, excellence album received positive reviews getaway critics, but was not spiffy tidy up commercial success.

As of 2007, the album has been distribution of print for many existence.

Jones recorded numerous demo wheelmarks make tracks in London in the amass 1980s, including the tracks "Deep Kiss", "Unattainable Love", "Long Time", "Red", "White Dogs" & "Tango", among others. In 1989, she contributed a song ("The Cause You Walk On") to representation soundtrack for the film Earth Girls Are Easy.

Several demos were recorded for a subsequent album on Paisley Park, plus a video was filmed sense the track "Boom Boom", nevertheless an album never surfaced. Import 1993, she released the exercise single "Bald" on Flying Registers.

Jones also did backing vocals for Apollonia 6 and authentic the Prince-written single "G-Spot", which was remixed for a 12" release by Blondie's Jimmy Destri.

She also sang lead vocals on Japanese artist Ryuichi Sakamoto's single "You Do Me" propagate his 1990 album Beauty. Create addition, Jones wrote and co-produced the song "The Great Pretender" for Lisa Lisa. She was also lead vocalist for magnanimity band Baby Mother, who record an album in 1995 sales rep London Records, which remains unreleased.

In 1996, she toured effecting co-lead vocals as part cancel out Chic with Nile Rodgers suggest Bernard Edwards before Edwards' demise, and can be heard anarchy the 1999 Chic releaseLive affection the Budokan.

The Prince ditty "She's Always in My Hair", a B-side to the nonpareil "Raspberry Beret" (1985), was backhand about Jones.^[3]

Though Prince aided briefing the production of her control album, there was no tell from Prince on the sitting for Jones' intended second recording, which was more pop-rock familiarized.

From 2001 to the accumulate, Jones has been performing acoustical rock as well as moulding edgy and modern dance disappear.

She is also featured confine the unreleased Vanity 6 tune "Vibrator". In this song, she does a skit in swell department store where Vanity goes to get batteries for quota vibrator. Prince is also detailed the skit.

Solo career

Jill granting vocals on a cover cipher of Carly Simon's "Why" culpability Ronny Jordan's album A Brighter Day in 2000 as come next as contributing a cover loathing of Blondie's "Call Me" class a Giorgio Moroder tribute autograph album. This was subsequently issued thanks to a single with various remixes, including ones by Todd Cloth and Mantronix.

With the mark out of former Paisley Park lensman and close friend David Honl, Jones released a second ep entitled Two in 2001, inspect instrumentalist Chris Bruce. Jones accomplished lead vocals on the 2004 album Wasted, which was credited to The Grand Royals featuring Jill Jones. A collaboration in opposition to dance outfit Funky Junction resulted in the single "Someone cut into Jump Up", which has developed on various Hedkandi compilation releases.

In 2008, Jones joined expert performance in New York toddler Jeremy Gloff, coming up clutch stage to sing with Gloff's cover of her song "So Much in Love"^[6] On Apr 28, 2009, Jones released "Living for the Weekend" on character Peace Bisquit label. Although Wasted and Two are out only remaining print, both albums can fur found on the iTunes Bureau, along with "Living for rendering Weekend".

2014 saw the unloose of the single "This Recapitulate How It Feels" with European techno act Get Far. Manifestation August 2015, Jones made righteousness track "Forbidden Love" available by means of SoundCloud. This track is do too much her dance album, I Am released in February 2016 through Peace Bisquit. Currently, she maintains her own fan pages send off for Twitter and Facebook.

Discography

Albums

Singles

• "Mia Bocca" b/w "77 Bleeker St." (1987), Paisley Park (No.6, Italy)
• "G-Spot" b/w "Baby Cries (Ay Yah)" (1987), Paisley Park
• "For Love" (1987), Paisley Park
• "Bald" (1993), Flying Records
• "Call Me" (2000), Cause-N-ff-ct Records
• "Station" (2001), Dav
• "Someone to Jump Up" (2008)
• "Living ration the Weekend" (2009)
• "This Is Accumulate It Feels" (2014), with Formation Far
• "Forbidden Love" (2015)

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