Rickie Lee Jones
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Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a vocalist and songwriter from the United States.
Born in Chicago, she grew up in a fractured and dysfunctional family setting. As a teen, Jones became involved in the summer of '69 hippie scene in California, and ran away from home. She settled down in Los Angeles where she waited tables and played at local clubs. A 1979 contract with Warner Brothers resulted in her first, eponymously-titled album. Commercially and critically well-received, it included a hit single, "Chuck E's in Love", and won her the Best New Artist Grammy award along with five other nominations.
Her career was the first launched successfully by video, and she was one of the only artists - if not the only - ever featured twice in two years (1979-1980) on the cover of the renowned Rolling Stone magazine. Since her debut, Rickie has released several albums, non as successful as the first, though she won another Grammy (and two other nominations) for a cover of "Makin' Whoopie" with Dr. John. The Orb sampled her voice for "Little Fluffy Clouds" in the recording phenomenon that initiated what eventually became ambient house music.
Rickie has one daughter from her marriage with French musician Pascal Nabet Meyer.
She is organizer of the web community, "Furniture for the People", which is involved in gardening, social activism, bootleg exchange and left wing politics. She hosts a weekly talk radio on KAOS (Evergreen State College radio) in Olympia, Washington. She has produced (including Leo Kottke's Peculiaroso), and provided a voiceover for a 1980s cartoon version of Pinocchio, in which she played the Blue Fairy.
Discography
- Rickie Lee Jones - (1979)
- Pirates - (1981)
- Girl at Her Volcano (EP) - (1983)
- The Magazine - (1984)
- Flying Cowboys - (1989)
- Pop Pop - (1991)
- Traffic From Paradise - (1993)
- Naked Songs - (1995)
- Ghostyhead - (1997)
- It's Like This - (2000)
- Live at Red Rocks - (2001)
- The Evening of My Best Day (2003)
- Rickie Lee Jones: Duchess of Coolsville (2005) - 3-disc anthology due June 28
External links
- Official website (http://www.rickieleejones.com)
- Furniture for the People (http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com)de:Rickie Lee Jones