Born in Dover, Kent, England in 1987, Joss Stone spent her teenage years listening to a lot of music such as R&B, and soul music. Her favorite artist to listen to were Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin. Joss Stone adapted a soulful style of singing like the artist she grew up listening to.
At the early age of 14, Joss Stone made an appearance on Star for a Night on BBC Television. She sang Aretha Franklin’s “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”. As Joss Stone put ito in an MTV interview, “I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You’ve got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little.”
In 2002, Joss Stone decided to test the U.S. market by flying to New York City for an audition with S-Curve CEO Steve Greenberg. During that time I believed she signed a global music publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing in the UK.
Joss Stone, with a powerful soul voice, was ready to take on the world. Joss Stone’s career introduction was performances with Blondie and Gladys Knight. Rumors had it that she was leaving with the son of her record producer at 17 years old. I believe that cost her spokesperson for the megastore Gap.
in 2005 Joss Stone won Best Female Solo artist and Best Urban Artist in England.
Joss Stone signed with S-Curve records and immediately started working on her debut album The Soul Session. She flew to Miami to work with Miami’s finest producer and record hit makers such as Betty Wright, Benny Latimore, Timmy Thomas and Little Beaver. She also worked with contemporary acts Angie Stone and The Roots.
The album consists of little known soul tracks by Wright, Franklin, Laura Lee and Bettye Swann. In late 2003 the album was released and quickly reached the top 5 in the UK Albums Chart, and also made the top forty of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart. The single, “Fell In Love With A Boy”, which was a reworking of The White Stripes’ song “Fell In Love With A Girl”, reached the top twenty of the UK Singles Chart. The second single, “Super Duper Love Are You Diggin’ On Me?”, also reached the top twenty.
Although Joss Stone was already working on an R&B debut album when The Soul Sessions were recorded, the project was halted due to the success of The Soul Sessions. Soul Sessions remains her biggest selling album.
After the huge success of The Soul Sessions album, Joss Stone recorded an album of original songs in 2004 named Mind, Body & Soul. This album have seen an even bigger success than her first album, it debuted at #1 in the UK breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the albums charts there, a record previously held by Avril Lavigne and just missed the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200, after peaking at #11. The lead single, “You Had Me”, became her first top ten in the UK. 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 of the top 50 of America’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at #54.
October 2004 Joss Performed for her Mind, Body & Soul DVD live in New York.
In November 2004, Joss Stone joined Band Aid 20 to benefit Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. The group, consisting of such luminaries as Chris Martin and U2 lead singer Bono, re-recorded the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, written by Band Aid organizers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Stone, born 2 years after the release of the original single, wasn’t initially aware who Bob Geldof was. The media gleefully reported that she repeatedly referred to him as Bob Gandalf. Despite some criticism of the single the single became the UK’s biggest seller of 2004 as well as the Christmas Number 1.
In February 2005, Joss Stone was nominated for three Brit Awards. She took home two; Best Female and Best Urban Act. She was also nominated three times at the 2005 Grammy Awards, where she sang barefoot on stage with rock performer Melissa Etheridge, in tribute to 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 top forty U.S. hit when it debuted at #32 then peaked on the Billboard Hot 100.
In July of 2005 she participated in the soundtrack of the Fantastic Four, singing the title song “What Ever Happened To The Heroes”, written by Pink, billymann, and Christopher Rojas.
In July 2005, Stone performed at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, and did a duet with R&B/soul singer James Brown on UK chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
On February 5, 2006, she joined John Legend and Stevie Wonder at the Super Bowl XL pre-game show in performing a medley of Wonder’s hits and on the night of the Grammys 2006, she helped perform a medley of hits by the reclusive soul/funk singer Sly Stone.
Joss Stone will make her film debut in the fantasy epic Eragon, which will release on December 15, 2006. In the movie, Stone plays the witch Angela.
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